How to Add a New User to Your Website

Transcript:

Kia ora, this is a video on how to add a new user to the back end of your website. So when you first log in you will land on the dashboard and then if you scroll down the left hand menu you will find users.

From here what you can do is click on add user right up the very top. Fill in the field, so username is always required, add their email address, and then update the role that is appropriate for them.

Adding and, so if for, for example, for now, I’m going to be administrator. This is something that we would just recommend, not too many people are administrators as there’s a security element going on there.

Editor is a fantastic option for being able to, edit images and content, visual content on the website, just not changing any of the structure.

When you’re done, click add user, and then this user will be sent an email, that has a link prompting them to set their own password.

If at any point someone, cannot access or they forgot their password or lost it for whatever reason, you can go into the back end here, hover over their name, and click on the send password reset option, and then you will see a little note here that says the password link, reset link has been sent.

And that is how you add a new user to the backend on WordPress website. Thank you.