Users, Roles & Profiles

Adding people to your site, choosing what each person is allowed to do with roles, removing users, and looking after your own profile: display name, contact info, bio, admin color scheme, personal options, password, and application passwords.

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How to send a password reset link to a user

When someone on your site is locked out, you can email them a reset link so they choose a new password themselves. You never have to set a password for them, and their current one keeps working until they use the link.

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How to remove a user from your site

Removing someone from your site takes only a couple of clicks — WordPress just wants to know what should happen to the posts and pages they wrote before their account goes. Here's the whole thing, start to finish.

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How to choose your admin color scheme and personal options

Your dashboard doesn't have to look like everyone else's. You can give it a color scheme you enjoy and switch a few settings on or off so it works the way you do.

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How to add a user to your site with an existing account

Someone you work with already has an account on your network, and now they need access to this site too. You can hand that account a place here in a few clicks — no second account, no password to pass around.

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How to change a user’s role

A person's role decides what they can do on your site. Changing it takes about a minute, and you can switch it back just as easily.

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How to add a user to your site with a new account

Giving someone their own account is the easiest way to let them help with your site. You'll pick a username and an email address, choose what they're allowed to do, and decide whether WordPress emails them a link to set their own password.

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How to set up application passwords

An application password is a password you hand to one app or device instead of your real one. It signs in for that app, and you can revoke it later without touching the password you use everywhere else.

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How to change your password

Your password is the key to your whole site, so it's worth refreshing now and then. You can set a new one from your own profile — and if you'd rather not think one up, WordPress will suggest a strong password for you.

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How to edit your profile

Your profile is what WordPress knows about you — and what your visitors see on your posts. Here's how to update your name, contact details, website, and bio so they read the way you want.

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How to find a user in the Users list

Once your site has more than a few people on it, scrolling the Users list stops being practical. A quick search or a role filter finds the right account in seconds, and then you can tick several people at once to change or remove them together.

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How to let visitors register on your site

You don't have to add every member by hand. Turn on open registration once, and anyone who visits your site can create their own account — landing straight in the role you pick for them.

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