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Marketing is the Wonder in your Bread Genie in the Bottle Classic in your Cola Devil in the Details Fruit in your Loops Spin in your Dreidel Dakine

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Marketing is the Wonder in your Bread Genie in the Bottle Classic in your Cola Devil in the Details Fruit in your Loops Spin in your Dreidel Dakine

How to Add a User in WordPress

Adding a new user in WordPress is usually a pretty straightforward thing. Here are the step-by-step instructions.

Log in to WordPress:

Open a web browser and pull up your website yourwebsite.com.

Add /wp-admin to the end of your URL so that it reads yourwebsite.com/wp-admin.

If you’re not already logged in, WordPress’s default behavior will redirect to you to the login screen yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php. 

Log in with your credentials. You will need administrator access to add users.

Upon successful login, you will then be redirected back to /wp-admin. 

Screenshot showing steps for working in WordPress.

Navigate to Users:

Once you’re in, click on Users > Add New User in the left sidebar of your WordPress dashboard.

Screenshot showing steps for working in WordPress.

Enter User Information:

  1. Username: Enter a unique username (this cannot be changed later). If you are providing access to us, please use “HI Vizibility Marketing Webadmin”.
  2. Email: Provide the user’s email address. For us, please use admin@hivizhawaii.com.
  3. First Name and Last Name (optional)
  4. Website (optional): If the user is outside your organization, adding their website here might serve as a reminder of who they are later on.
  5. Set a Password: Auto-generate a password or enter a custom password.
  6. Send User Notification (optional): Check this box to send the new user an email with login details. 
  7. Assign the User’s Role
    • Administrator: Full control over the website, including managing users, plugins, themes, and all content. If we are providing webadmin or SEO services, we will need administrator access.
    • Editor: Can manage all content, including publishing posts and pages by other users.
    • Author: Can create, edit, and publish their own posts, but cannot manage other users’ content.
    • Contributor: Can create and edit their own posts, but cannot publish them.
    • Subscriber: Can only log in to their account and view certain site content.
  8.  Click add new user and that should be it.
Screenshot showing steps for working in WordPress.

Now What?

DIY builders like SquareSpace, Weebly, Wix, etc. don’t need a lot of maintenance. Those platforms are designed for out-of-the-box, ease of use over customization and most of the backend management is handled through the host platforms. 

WordPress is different. WordPress is a widely adopted, open-source CMS with lots of user testing and ongoing software evolution. The ecosystem is always growing more complicated and more capable through new version releases and smaller patches multiple times per year. Similarly, PHP, the programming language most WordPress sites are built on, is also updated regularly, as are the myriad plugins (add-on programs) that are attached to virtually every WordPress site. 

Developers are constantly creating new plugins and patching existing plugins. Often, these patches are only to keep up with changes in recent WordPress/PHP versions. When a site “breaks” it is often the result of an incompatibility between WordPress, PHP and plugins.

WordPress sites need to be kept updated. Here’s a guide to help you keep your WordPress site ship-shape.