Team Accounts & Roles
What it is
The moment you're not the only one writing on your site, you'll want other people to have their own login — not because sharing one password is dangerous (though it is), but because everyone should only be able to do what actually makes sense for them. Admin → Users is where you add accounts and decide what each person can do.
The three roles
- Admin — full access to everything: settings, themes, plugins, backups, translations, other people's accounts, and every piece of content. Reserve this for yourself and anyone you'd trust to reconfigure the whole site.
- Editor — can write, edit, and publish any content on the site, written by them or by anyone else. A solid fit for someone managing your content day-to-day who doesn't need to touch site settings or install anything.
- Author — can write and manage only their own content. Nothing they didn't write is visible to them, and they can't touch settings, themes, or anyone else's account either. A natural fit for contributors on a multi-writer blog, where you want people focused on their own work rather than able to edit each other's.
Whatever happens, there's always at least one Admin account — the system won't let you demote or delete the last one, so you can never accidentally lock yourself out of your own site.
What this looks like day to day
Editors and Authors simply see a simpler admin panel — sections like Settings, Themes, and Extensions aren't shown to them at all, not because they're hidden behind a confusing wall, but because those aren't things their role needs to worry about. Once you have more than one person contributing, your content list and dashboard also start showing who wrote what, so it's obvious at a glance who's responsible for which piece.
A typical setup
One Admin (you), one or two Editors if you have people managing the whole site's content, and Author accounts for anyone contributing pieces of their own without needing the run of the place. It's a small amount of setup that saves you from ever having to explain "please don't touch that section" after the fact.