How to Choose Who Can Write Blog Posts in WB Member Blog

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In this tutorial you will choose which members can write blog posts on your site. You need the free WB Member Blog plugin, installed and active. It takes about three minutes. There are five steps. Open the Access tab. Tick the roles that may write. Know who can always write. Save your choice. Then see it as a member who cannot write.

Step one. Open the Access tab. In your WordPress admin, open WB Plugins, then Member Blog, and click Access under Settings. The first card is Allowed User Roles. It decides which roles have permission to create blog posts.

Step two. Tick the roles that may write. Every role on your site has a tile, such as Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber. Click a tile to tick it. The line above counts how many roles are ticked. Click it again to untick it. Select all and Clear all, on the right, tick or clear every role at once.

Step three. Know who can always write. Administrators are not in the list. They always have permission to create posts. So you can never lock yourself out of writing.

Step four. Save your choice. Click Save Settings at the foot of the tab. The change applies the next time a member opens the writing page.

Step five. See it as a member who cannot write. This member's role is not ticked. Her blog home has no Create Post button, and no tabs for her own posts. She can still read. Saved keeps the posts she saves, and Following lists the writers she follows.

That is all five. The Access tab, the roles ticked, administrators always allowed, the choice saved, and the result seen as a member. Only the members you chose can now write on your site. Next in this series: Choose the editor and turn on autosave.