As an administrator of your website you have the option to set up additional users for your website. When setting up a new user you will need to decide what role the user will be. Each role gives the user certain privileges and capabilities related to access to and the manipulation of new and existing content on the website. Here is a brief summary of the different roles:
Administrator – Someone who as access to all administration features
Editor – Someone who can publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other user’s posts, etc.
Author – Someone who can publish and manage their own posts
Contributor – Someone who can write and manage their own posts but not publish them
Subscriber – Someone who can only manage their profile