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Remove the tick from the box labelled "Send the new user an email about their
account." Such emails tend to look like junk or phishing emails and are often not
delivered successfully. It is better to send the new user a personal email and tell
them their new account name and password.

Set the appropriate Role and click the 'Add New User' button. The new account
is created. It might be a good idea to log out from your account and check that
you can log in as the new user to make sure you have recorded the username
and password correctly. Return to the All Users screen in Admin mode and your
new user will now show on the list.

Please note that it is a WordPress requirement that all users of the system must
have a unique email address.
You probably noticed that there are five types of WordPress User rather than the
three that have already been discussed. The other two are Subscribers and
Contributors but there are no plans for u3a to use these other two in the short-
term.

For your information a Subscriber is just someone who can log in, but with no
access to the administration pages. That role would typically be used if you
want to restrict access to certain content on the front end of the website to
known users. A u3a might consider using that role for their regular members to
see more content on the site than the general public. However it would require
support from additional plugins to provide that functionality as it is not a
standard WordPress feature.

A Contributor can log in to the administration pages and can create posts but
cannot publish them. Like an Author they can also edit content where the
content item has been put in their ownership, but they cannot publish such
items. I can't see that role being useful to a u3a unless they want to be able to
give untrusted members the ability to create content which would not be
published until approved by an Editor or Administrator.

Self-Check: Users
You can now try this out for yourself. Using the descriptions above please add a
new user of your choice. Local is just that … local … so no-one is going to see
anything you add or edit on your training site except you. You can be serious
and add real details of someone (email won’t send as it’s just a simulation) or you
can have a bit of fun and add your favourite cartoon character or one of your

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