When managing or creating user accounts for your Sharefaith website, you will have the option to assign those users various WordPress roles with different levels of access and permissions. For your convenience, here is a brief description of each available role.


Administrator – Somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site. If the user account you are managing will be doing a large portion of updates and edits to the site, they should be assigned this role.

Editor – Somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.

Author – Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.

Contributor – Somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.

Subscriber – Somebody who can only manage their profile.