As an administrator of your website, you can manage the user accounts giving people access to login so they can edit or view content on your website.
- To begin, select User Manager from the Home tab
- Select Create New User in the Common Tasks column.
- Enter details relevant to the user.
Note: Required fields are marked with an asterisk. Fields that require a unique piece of information, for example 'username', will be highlighted.
- If required you can untick the User can change password checkbox.
- If you do not wish to have an email sent to the user, untick the Send User Password Reset checkbox.
- If required, you can lock an account by selecting Account is currently Locked.
- Click Choose Roles to link the user to a role. This role will have permissions already defined.
Please note: When assigning a user to a role, it is advisable to assign them to only one of the default roles. This is because lesser permissions within the role they are assigned to may override any permissions within other roles they have been assigned.
For example, if you assign a user to the 'Administrator' role, they will have full permissions to edit the website. However, if you also assign them to the 'Writers' role, the permissions within the Writers role will take precedence over those within the Administrator role. Consequently, they will lose some of the permissions within the Administrator role and will not have full access to edit the website.
To understand what default permissions each role has please refer to the following article:
Default User Roles
- Once you have selected the relevant role, click Add User to create the user account. If you selected the option to send a password reset, an email will be sent to the new user to enable them to set their password.
Once you have created the new user account you may want to refer new users to the following article: