WordPress:Authors and Users SubPanel

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The Authors and Users SubPanel allows you to add, change, or delete, your site's users. In addition, you can search for users, and you can make bulk changes and deletions to a selected group of users.

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Manage Users

Search Users

At the top right of the User Table is a search box to help find users. Enter a string in the box and click the "Search users" box. Any User that contains the search string in the Username, Name, E-mail, or Website fields will be displayed, by Role. You can then add, change, and delete those users. A "No matching users were found! " message will be displayed if no Users can be found that match the search string you entered.

Filter Users

Just above the User Table, are filter links to All Users, and to Users belonging to the various Roles. Clicking on one of those links, say Subscribers, will display all the Users assigned the Subscribe Role. Click on All Users to again display all the Users in the table.

User Table

The second section of the Authors and Users SubPanel displays a table of all the users listed by Username order.

Delete Users

At the top of the table is the Delete button. Any User that has the checkbox (left of Username) set, will be deleted when the Delete button is clicked. On clicking the Delete button, a Delete Users panel will display with a message "You have specified these users for deletion:" with a list of the Users you are deleting with the following question:

What should be done with posts and links owned by this user?

• Delete all posts and links - Check this radio button and click the Confirm Deletion button to delete the User(s) as well as any posts and links attributed to those User(s).
• Attribute all posts and links to - Check this radio button, select a User from the adjacent drop-down box, and click the Confirm Deletion button to attribute all the posts and links for the Deleted User(s) to the User you selected in the pulldown box. Upon successful completion of the deletion process, a splash message box near the top of the panel will display "x user(s) deleted".

Change User Role

To the right of the Delete button is a Change role to pull-down box. Select a Role, and all the Users that have the checkbox (left of Username) checked, will be changed to that Role upon clicking the Change button. Upon successful completion of the changes, a splash box with the message "Changed roles." will display.

User Table

The table of Users contains the following columns:

• [ ] check box - Check this box if this user is to be affected by the Delete or Change (role) functions. There is also a checkbox in the column header to the left of the text Username--click that checkbox to cause all Users to be checked.
• Username - The login of the User. To edit a User, click on the Username link, the Profile and Personal Options SubPanel will then display for you to make the necessary changes. In addition to the Username, all users have a unique identification number which WordPress uses to identify users internally. To determine that User ID, hover the mouse over the Username link, and the User ID will be revealed as part of the URL in the browser status bar.
• Name - The first and last names of the User.
• E-mail - The User's e-mail address.
• Role - The Role assigned to that User.
• Posts - The number of Posts written by that User.

Add New User

In this section, you may add a new Users to your blog. If the Anyone can register option is set in the Membership section of Administration > Settings > General, users can register themselves at http://your wordpress url/wp-register.php. Regardless of that setting, you can manually create new users here.

• Username (required) - Enter the username of the new user here. This will also be used as the Login name of the new user.
• First Name - Enter the first name of the new user here.
• Last Name - Enter the last name of the new user in this text box.
• E-mail (required) - Enter a valid e-mail address of the new user here.
• Website -: You may enter the new user's website URL in this text box.
• Password (twice) - Enter a password for the new user twice here, once in each text box.
• Role - Select the desired Role for this User from the drop-down box.
• Add User - Clicking this important button to save the new user's information into WordPress' database. If you don't click this button, the user will not be added. A flash message at the top of the panel well advise you that the new user has been added.

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