A team site will only be useful if team members are added to it. You can let people register themselves as users on the site using the WordPress registration screen, but we will not do this here. Later, in this chapter, we'll install a plugin that prevents anyone without an account on the site from viewing it, which means the administrator (that's you!) needs to add each user to the site.
Follow these steps to add users to your site:
In the WordPress admin, go to Users | Add New.
Add your first user's details. If you don't have any users yet, add a dummy user, as I've done in the following screenshot:
Fig 8.6: Adding a new user
Make sure your user has the Contributor role so that they can add posts.
Click on the Add New User button to add the new user.
Repeat this with all of your users. As you can see in the following screenshot, I've added a few more dummy users, and my team is turning out to be quite literary:
Fig 8.7: New users on the Users screen