When you set up a new BuilderPress site with multiple users you have the ability to assign and control what other users can do, depending on the tasks you want each user to be responsible for.
Carefully consider what role you assign each user. (Example: administrators are able to remove other users, and editors can alter and delete site content.)
Take a look at the BuilderPress user role and authority organization chart below:
Five BuilderPress user authority levels and roles:
- Administrator– can do everything including complete control over site posts, pages, plugins, comments, themes, imports, settings, user roles and delete the entire blog. In most cases, there will be one administrator for each site, although you may choose to have multiple.
- Editor– able to publish posts/pages, manage posts/pages, upload files, moderate comments as well as manage other people’s posts/pages. Probably the hardest working site member and BuilderPress user role… 2nd highest authority level.
- Author – can upload files plus write and publish own posts. The most important user, worth their weight in gold; the more the merrier!
- Contributor – can write own posts/pages but can’t publish them. Great for networking with business partners and guest authors.
- Subscriber – can read comments and write comments. Hopefully site visitors and frequent readers will participate in the conversation.
About Site Admin
Standard BuilderPress user roles are assigned as follows: administrator, editor, author, contributor or subscriber. Each level of access is determined by amount of access allotted to each user.
Administrators have the highest site access, able to use all enabled blog features, while a subscriber has the lowest access - only able to read and write comments. Site admins have the next level of access, and responsibility, above administrators.
Typically, a site admin is the person who has total control of the entire site including:
- Manage the access and level of responsibility of all users
- Manage blog features including access to plugins, themes and blog privacy settings
- Create new users and new blogs
- Edit posts, pages, comments on any blog
- Reset passwords
- Edit and delete any blog
Editors Note: Again, consider carefully what role each user is assigned. Deciding who and how many users you assign as a “site admin” requires the greatest consideration because of the high access level.
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