{"id":20424,"date":"2022-04-07T12:20:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/?p=20424"},"modified":"2022-07-11T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T09:20:02","slug":"add-new-user-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/add-new-user-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add a New User in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When you set up a website, you need to add users to your account. This allows you to control who has access to what parts of your site. But when you first install WordPress, you don&#8217;t have any users yet.<\/p>\n<p>In order to add users, you&#8217;ll need to log into your WordPress dashboard. Once you&#8217;re logged in, click on Users under the Dashboard menu. Then click on Add New User.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;20425&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The next screen will ask you to enter a email, username and password for your user. After that, you&#8217;ll be presented with a form that asks you to fill out information about the person you&#8217;d like to add to your site.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;20426&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each user has a role with a different set of capabilities. Subscriber is the least powerful role, and Administrator is the most powerful role. You need to choose a role depending on what tasks a user will be performing on your website.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve filled out the form, click on Save Changes. Your new user will now appear in the Users section of your dashboard.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When you set up a website, you need to add users to your account. This allows you to control who has access to what parts of your site. But when you first install WordPress, you don&#8217;t have any users yet. In order to add users, you&#8217;ll need to log into your WordPress dashboard. Once you&#8217;re&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"order-bump-settings":[],"_wpfnl_thankyou_order_overview":"on","_wpfnl_thankyou_order_details":"on","_wpfnl_thankyou_billing_details":"on","_wpfnl_thankyou_shipping_details":"on"},"categories":[274,91,214,223],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdthomson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}