There are a variety of roles, that allow the user to do different things. By default, each higher level can do everything the previous level can do, plus the listed information.

Subscriber

Are allowed to read content, even if is set to private. Can leave comments if “User must be signed in” setting is enabled.

Contributor

Are allowed to write posts, however they cannot publish them. The posts must be published by someone else. They can edit a post they created until it is published.

Author

Authors are allowed to write posts, and can edit and publish their own posts.

Editor

Editors can edit the posts of other people. They can also publish posts that are not published yet, regardless of who created the post originally.

Administrator

Admins can change settings within WordPress. This includes all configuration settings including: themes, menus, etc.

Understanding Roles within WordPress was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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