Changing a user's role (administrator, editor, author, etc.) on your personal blog
You can alter a user's role on your personal blog, which changes the privileges that person has to post and make other changes to your blog.
Before You Begin
It is possible to give another member of Illinois State University access to update your personal blog. You have the option of adding people as administrators, editors, contributors, authors, and subscribers. For more information, refer to 1589: Adding a user as an administrator, editor, author, etc. to your personal blog.
The level of control someone has over your blog is based on the user role you assign to that person. You can change the role you've assigned to a user at any time.
User Roles
There are five types of user roles you can assign:
- Administrator - Full control over your blog
- Editor - Publish and manage all posts on your blog
- Author - Publish and manage their own posts
- Contributor - Write and manage their own posts (but need you to publish posts)
- Subscriber - Read comments and posts
These roles grant varying levels of privileges with administrator offering the most privileges and subscriber offering the least. We recommend you grant roles based on the type of assistance you expect from those you've added to your blog.
Change a User's Role on Your Personal Blog
You can change the role you have assigned to a person on your personal blog. Doing this allows you to grant a higher or lower level of privileges to the user.
To change a user's role on your personal blog, do the following:
- Go to http://my.ilstu.edu.
- Log in to your personal blog with your ULID and password.
- Under Users on the left, click Authors and Users.
- You may need to click Users to expand that panel so you can see the Authors & Users option.
- Put a check mark next to each user you want to remove from your personal blog.
- Click the Change role to... menu and select the desired role.
- Then click Change.
The user's role has now been changed.