Users

Adding users

Site administrators are able to add users to a site, although that user will already need to be added into the main research.kent list of users.

Research.kent uses the standard WordPress user management dashboard to add, edit, and delete users from individual sites. This can be accessed from the dashboard and by clicking on ‘Users‘ on the main menu to the left. Here Admins can view all users on their site, make changes to their profiles, and remove them if required.

Please be aware that users can only be added to research.kent if they have a UoK IT profile (i.e. a .kent.ac.uk email)

If you require a user to be added to research.kent prior to self management, or if your user role does not permit this then the Web and Learning Development team can arrange this. Please get in contact with us to arrange this.

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User roles

research.kent provides the following roles when adding a user to a site:

• Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site including adding and removing users
• Editor – Somebody who can publish and manage posts and pages including the posts of other users, as well as moderate comments
• Author – Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts and pages
• Contributor – Somebody who can write and manage their own posts and pages but cannot publish them
• Subscriber – Somebody who can only manage their profile

For many sites on research.kent we add users as ‘Administrators‘ since this will provide all the level of access required and usually there will only be one or two individuals maintaining a site. However if you wanted to provide access to only create and edit content then we suggest adding them as ‘Editors‘.

Site ‘Administrators‘ are unable to change their sites theme or plugins. This has to be done by the Web and Learning Development team.