WordPress User Deferential | Definition Subscriber, Contributor, Editor, Author, Administrator.

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 WordPress User Deferential | Definition Subscriber, Contributor, Editor, Author, Administrator.

The WordPress user system controls what users will and can't do on your web site. This includes body tasks, writing content, approving content, plugin and theme management, and more.


Administrator – Has access to all administrative options and features.

Editor – Can manage and publish posts. Traditionally, editors review posts submitted by contributors and then schedule them for review.

Author – Can publish their own posts when they wish.

Contributor – Can write posts but cannot publish them. Instead, they need to submit their posts for review.

Subscriber – Has basic functionality such as changing their profile and leaving comments.


Unfortunately, the default version of WordPress doesn't permit you to vary what explicit user roles will and can't do. Nor will it permit you to make your own custom user teams.
This can be restrictive once running a multi author web site. Take the contributor user role, as an example. The contributor user role permits users to delete posts. this can be not invariably ideal as a state of affairs may arise wherever a author deletes their article when being obtained it (rare, however still possible).