User roles in WordPress

You can have many people contributing to a single blog.  This blog is a great example of this, although I am the only one posting.   Each user has a role and can do certain things on the blog:

What are the different roles?

There are four roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, and Contributor.

Here is what they can do:

Administrator (for class blogs, this is the teacher and for individual blogs, this is the student)

The Admin can do everything. Complete power over posts, comments, settings, theme choice, import, users – the whole shebang. Nothing is off-limits.

Editor (class blogs – students; individual blogs – teacher)

They can publish any posts, edit any posts, edit any published posts, edit any pages, moderate comments, manage categories, manage links and upload files. They can also delete any posts and any pages. They can read, edit and delete private posts.

Author

Is able to edit their posts, publish their posts and upload files. And they can delete their posts too.

Contributor

They can edit their posts but cannot publish.

Advice
Be careful what roles you give people, especially if you want them to be an Editor or joint Administrator. Promoting someone is easy – removing a role is much harder.

If you have a class blog (Jeane, Rick and Lucia) you will create a blog and add the students as editors by having them register an account at WordPress.  If you have individual blogs (Grazi and Renato), you will as the students to create the blogs and then add you as an editor.