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WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition - Fourth Edition

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WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

Back in the day, when you wanted to launch a new website, you either had to learn web programming yourself or hire a professional who would take care of the whole process for you. Those times are long gone due to WordPress and the great opportunities it brings. With WordPress, anyone can build an optimized site with the least amount of effort possible and then make it available to the world in no time. WordPress is a flexible and powerful tool that's ideal for creating both blog and non-blog websites. You can customize the features, incorporate your own design, and even write your own plugins with ease. Its versatility and ease of use have attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users. "WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition" is a practical guide for anyone who wants to start their journey as a web developer. This WordPress book takes you through a step-by-step process of planning out and then building your site. "WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition" will take you through the complete process of building a fully functional WordPress site from scratch. You will learn how to create your first blog post, what the difference between posts and pages is, and how to use multimedia files to accompany your content and make it more attractive. Next, you will find out what plugins and themes are and how to use them effectively. "With WordPress 3.7 Complete: Third Edition" , you will learn all the ins and outs of WordPress and using it for publishing content on the Web. It provides easy-to-apply advice with tons of screenshots and actionable examples.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WordPress 3.7 Complete Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Index

User roles and abilities


WordPress includes the ability to have an unlimited number of users. Each of the users can be assigned one of the five (or six) roles. Let's look at these roles one at a time, starting with the most powerful.

Super Admin

Even though it sounds very appealing, the Super Admin (aka Network Admin) role isn't actually that fancy. Basically, WordPress has now allowed users to build a multisite setup (mentioned a couple of pages ago). This is a scenario where you have more than one site built on just a single WordPress installation. Now, the Super Admin is a role that has complete administration access to all websites that are part of a given multisite network.

Honestly speaking, if you don't have any multisite structure set up on your WordPress installation then you won't even see the Super Admin role in the WP Admin.

Note

The presence of the multisite structure itself reduces some of the capabilities of other user roles described in the following section, so the following...