{"id":2653,"date":"2018-11-16T10:15:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.natsci.colostate.edu\/cnsit\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2018-11-16T10:15:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:15:24","slug":"wordpress-contributor-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wordpress-contributor-role\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress – Contributor Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Contributor Role in WordPress can be a valuable tool for sharing content creation responsibility without exposing too much administrative access to a user.<\/p>\n

The default settings for the Contributor Role are fairly restrictive in a WordPress site<\/p>\n

A Contributor can create and edit only\u00a0their own\u00a0posts, but cannot publish them. When one of their posts is ready to be published, or has been revised, the Administrator needs to be notified personally by the Contributor to review it. Furthermore, once a Contributor\u2019s post is approved and published by an Administrator, it can no longer be edited by the Contributor.<\/em><\/p>\n

Contributors do not have the ability to upload files or images, but they can see your\u00a0site\u2019s\u00a0stats.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, by using the User Role Editor plugin (installed on many CNS sites), a user’s capabilities can be adjusted to match the desired results.<\/p>\n

Example<\/h2>\n

To allow a user to continue to update a published page, consider adding the following capabilities to the user account:<\/p>\n