Access WordPress Site Admin

  1.  Go to https://sites.dartmouth.edu/yoursite/wp-admin.
  2.  Log in with your NetID and password.
  3.  Your WordPress dashboard appears. This is the content management tool that allows you to edit your website. To allow someone else to edit/maintain your site, you will need to add a new User.
  4.  Add a user by clicking on “Users” in the left-hand column.
  5.  At the top of the page, click “Add Existing.”
  6.  Enter the NetID or email of the person you wish to add as a user.
  7.  Choose the “Role.”
    • Administrator – can do everything including complete power over posts, pages, plugins, comments, choice of themes, imports, settings, assign user roles and are even able to delete the blog.
    • Editor – is able to publish posts/pages, manage posts/pages, upload files, moderate comments as well as manage other people’s posts/pages.
    • Author – can upload files plus write and publish own posts.
    • Contributor – can write own posts but can’t publish them; instead they are submitted for review. An administrator or editor then reviews and publishes their posts.
    • Subscriber – can read comments and write comments.
  8.  Click “Add Existing User” to complete the process.
  9.  To exit the dashboard, click on your username in the upper right-hand corner and choose “Log out.”