WordPress User Guide
6. User Roles List
User roles determine the access level or permission of a person authorized (invited
by an Administrator) to use a WordPress site.
Administrator
An Administrator has full power over the site and can do everything related to site
administration*. Administrators can create more administrators, invite new users,
remove users, and change user roles. They have complete control over posts, pages,
uploaded files, comments, settings, themes, imports, and other users.
Nothing related to site-administration is off-limits for Administrators, including
deleting the entire site.
*Note: Administrators are not able to transfer site ownership if they do not own the
site. Administrators are not able to revise or manage paid upgrades that are owned
by a different user on the site.
Author
Authors can create, edit, publish, and delete only their own posts, as well as upload
files and images. Authors do not have access to create, modify, or delete pages, nor
can they modify posts by other users. Authors can edit comments made on their
posts.
Editor
Users with an editor role have full control on the content sections of your website.
They can add, edit, publish, and delete any posts on a WordPress site including the
ones written by others. Editors can moderate, edit, and delete comments as well.
Editors do not have access to change your site settings, install plugins and themes,
or add new users.
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