How Do I Grant Access to My WordPress Site?

WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) that enables you to create a website from scratch, or to improve an existing website. To protect your site’s content and integrity, you may want to restrict access to certain areas of your site.

To grant or deny access to your WordPress site, you first need to create a user account. To create a user account, click the “Users” link on the main dashboard, and then click the “Add New User” button.

In the “User Name” field, type a user name for your site, and in the “Password” field, type a password for your site. Click the “Create User” button to create your user account.

Next, you need to create a role for each user account you want to grant access to your site. To create a role, click the “Roles” link on the main dashboard, and then click the “Add New Role” button.

In the “Role Name” field, type a name for the role you want to create, and in the “Description” field, type a brief description of the role. Click the “Create Role” button to create the role.

Finally, you need to assign the role to the user account you want to grant access to your site. To assign the role to the user account, click the “Roles” link on the main dashboard, and then click the “Assign Role” button.

In the “Role Assignment” field, click the user account you want to assign the role to, and then click the “Assign Role” button.

Now that you have created users, roles, and assigned roles to user accounts, you can grant access to your site by clicking the “Users” link on the main dashboard, and then clicking the “Permissions” link. In the “Permissions” drop-down menu, select the role you want to grant access to, and then click the “Grant Role” button.

In the “Role Name” field, type the name of the user account you want to grant access to, and in the “Permissions” field, type the permissions you want to grant the user account. Click the “Grant Role” button to grant the user account the permissions you specified.

You can also revoke access to a user account by clicking the “Users” link on the main dashboard, and then clicking the “Permissions” link. In the “Permissions” drop-down menu, select the user account you want to revoke access to, and then click the “Revoke Role” button.

In the “Role Name” field, type the name of the user account you want to revoke access to, and in the “Permissions” field, type the permissions you want to revoke the user account. Click the “Revoke Role” button to revoke the user account the permissions you specified.

Finally, you can view a list of all the users, roles, and permissions assigned to your site by clicking the “Users” link on the main dashboard, and then clicking the “All Users” button. In the “All Users” window, you can also view the permissions assigned to a specific role by clicking the “Roles” link, and then clicking the “All Roles” button.

Conclusion

In this article, you have learned how to create users, roles, and assign roles to user accounts to grant or deny access to your WordPress site.