Adding Users to Your WordPress Site

Want to get some help with your site or have plans to work on another site as a group, WordPress makes it easy to invite others in.

1. Verify the person you want to add has a wordpress account

In order to add an LPS staff member to be a part of your website, you first need to see if they already have a WordPress account. They must have one before you add them. The easiest way to check is to enter what should be their web page address. If you want to add "jdoe" you would visit http://wp.lps.org/jdoe . If you get a page that looks like the one at the left below, indicating that there’s no page at this address, then you need to have them first create a WordPress account. If you get a real website that this person seems to have setup at some point, then you are good to go!

If you need the person to setup an account, you just need to ask them to visit http://lps.org/go/wplogin . They just need to login and their account will be created. They don’t have to do anything with their site once logged in.

2. Select "Add User" from the Dashboard

If you’ve verified that the person or people that you want to add have WordPress accounts, you are ready to add them. Login to your site and select "Add User" from the left column.

3. Enter username and select a role

On the "Add User" screen, you’ll want to add the person’s LPS username and then assign them a role. In most cases, selecting "Editor" will give them enough privledges to do what they need. If you want to ensure that they can do absolutely anything on the site, you can select "Administrator". You can read more about WordPress’s roles here.

4. Need to delete somebody or give someone more/less privledges?

If you need to see who has access to your site and remove or edit their access, you can do this on the All Users screen. Just select (1) All Users and then (2) click on "edit" or "remove" depending on what you need to do to this account.