User Roles
Roles are designed to control and assign what users can and cannot do in the blog. A blog owner allows access to such functions as writing and editing Posts, creating Pages, defining Links, creating Categories, moderating Comments, managing Plugins, managing Themes, and managing other users. The tool that gives the blog owner that control is the ability to assign a Role to a user. Roles define the user’s responsibilities within the blog.
The WordPress distribution comes with five pre-defined Roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, and Subscriber. Each Role is allowed to perform a set of tasks called Capabilities. There are thirty Capabilities including publish_posts, moderate_comments, and edit_users. The Capabilities are pre-assigned to each Role.
The Administrator is allowed to perform all possible Capabilities. Each of the other Roles has a decreasing number of allowed Capabilities. For instance, the Subscriber has the fewest Capabilities and is allowed only to read content.
Summary of Roles
* Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration features
* Editor – Somebody who can publish, edit, and delete their own and other’s posts
* Author – Somebody who can publish, edit, and delete their own posts
* Contributor – Somebody who cannot publish their own posts but can write, edit, and delete their own posts. Posts must be approved for publication by an Editor or Adminstrator
* Subscriber – Somebody who can read anything that is posted, including comments and replies to posts.
Unregistered visitors can only read posts, they cannot read comments or replies made to posts.
Registered members are subscribed as Contributors.
