Can WordPress Have Multiple Administrators? Yes And More!

Can WordPress have multiple Administrators?

Yes, you can have multiple Administrators on your WordPress website. And in many cases having multiple Administrators on your website will make your job much easier in running it.

Believe it or not, WordPress website owners can quickly become the bottleneck in their own success stream. 

This is usually caused by wanting to do everything yourself. So WordPress has added the ability for WordPress websites to have multiple Administrators on it. 

In this post I’m going to talk all about having multiple Administrators on your WordPress website, how you can include them and why they are important as well as answer some FAQs related to multiple Administrative roles on a WordPress site.

Why would you want multiple Administrators on your WordPress site?

There are a few reasons why you would want multiple Administrators on your WordPress website. You may even want to add temporary Administrators. 

For example, if you are going to monetize your website with display ads, you may need to give access to the display ad company so they can put the code into your website so they appear. 

In addition, you may want to have a developer work, add some extra functionality, customization or redesign your website etc. This would also require them to have an Administrator role as well.

Basically, you need to define the roles based on what the user’s function and purpose is for your website. 

If you have regular contributors to your WordPress website for example, you might not want to give them Administrator roles, but instead give them a contributor role or author role, possibly even an editor’s role. 

This way they can access the website and publish content like guest posts etc. However, they will not have access to the nuts and bolts of the website. 

The only access that these roles will get is in publishing new content or editing previous content that they have published. 

In fact, these user roles will only allow the particular user to have access to their contributions only. This way they can’t change anything to the website itself nor change anyone else’s contributions as well.

How do I add multiple Admins to WordPress?

You can literally add multiple Admins to your WordPress website through its dashboard. In the dashboard column toolbar, simply click the “users icon” then, “add new user”. 

There you can create as many Administrators as you like.

How many Administrators can WordPress have?

There literally is no limit to the amount of Administrators you can have on a WordPress website. 

However, for security reasons, if anything else, I would try to limit Administrator roles to only those that are vital in the overall operation of the website. 

You can add other roles to users, including those that you’ve labeled as Administrators.

What are the different WordPress user roles?

They’re various roles that you can use like:

• SEO Editor
• SEO Manager
• Subscriber
• Contributor
• Author
• Editor
• and of course, Administrator. 

These other multiple Administrator roles have less authority than the Administrator role.

How does a WordPress user access control?

A WordPress user can access control through the WP-Admin panel on a WordPress website. They must sign in using their username and password. Each user will only have enough control to do what they have been designated for.

Is there a WordPress user roles plugin?

There are various WordPress user roles plugins as well as Admin plugins that you might want to take a look at. 

All are very functional, but have their own nuances. I will list some of these below. 

The WordPress user roles plugins may help you sort out and organize the multiple Administrators on your WordPress website which could help make the running of your WordPress website go much smoother.

WordPress Admin Plugin	Description
	With WP Custom Admin Interface you can easily customize the WordPress Admin menu and toolbar and customize the Admin and login interfaces.  WP Custom Admin Interface provides an awesome and simple interface to customize the backend of WordPress to provide a more customized experience for you and your clients or customers.  WordPress administrators who manage multiple websites will appreciate the simple plugin settings export feature which will enable you to deploy customizations to multiple sites you manage. Click the link in the plugin’s icon for more details.
	Slash Admin gathers some common functions that you probably need in most of your websites. The plugin lets you change various different options in a WordPress website, keeps them active even if you switch your theme and helps you create a friendlier Admin Panel for you and your editors. Click the link in the plugin’s icon for more details.
	Give a temporary limited Admin. access to themes designers, plugins developers and support agents. The plugin is simple and clean, it helps the Administrator to create a user with a temporary access and choose which pages in your Admin area which you don’t want the user to access. Send the details to the user and when they’ve finished their task, you can easily deactivate the account and activate it later. Click the link in the plugin’s icon for more details.
	Lets any Administrator simplify the WordPress Admin interface, on a per-user basis. Hide any specific menu or submenu (including in the Admin bar) or hide the Admin bar entirely. Click the link in the plugin’s icon for more details.

These above are just a few of the Administrator plugins you can use to manage multiple WordPress Administors on your website.

What is the highest privilege level in WordPress?

The highest privilege level in WordPress is of course, that of Administrator. Administrators have full access to the WordPress dashboard of any WordPress website. 

They can make any changes too, including changes to code, plug-ins etc. They can even change assigned authors to posts. 

For example, if an author has written a post and you have decided to update it and add much needed additional information. 

You may decide to change the author of that post to the one who made significant changes to it or at least add their name along with the original author. 

All of this is actually quite easy to do. Especially, if you have full Administrator access to the website.

Which is the most important role in a WordPress website?

The role of Administrator is the most important role in a WordPress website. That is why you must choose wisely who you will assign this role too. 

You may decide that only you should have the role of Administrator, if you are generally going to be the only one running the entire website. 

However, as I have mentioned above, you may want to give temporary Administrator role status to those who need to work on the nuts and bolts of your WordPress website. This will allow a developer for example to add code or make any changes to the functionality or look of your website. 

However, you could always delete Administrators from your WordPress website as well. 

So when that temporary Administrator’s role has finished, you simply delete them from your user panel in WordPress. It’s that simple.

How do I see user roles in WordPress?

You can simply see the various user roles in WordPress by going into the WordPress dashboard and clicking the users icon. 

There you will be able to see all the users that you have on your WordPress site. 

However, only you as the Administrator can see these roles. 

Other users whose roles are lower than Administrator, may have only limited views on which user roles are visible to them.

Which is the lowest privilege level in WordPress?

The lowest privilege level in WordPress is that of Contributor or Author.

Having multiple Administrators on WordPress, summary.

As you can see having multiple Administrators on your WordPress website can be a Godsend.

It could unblock those Administrative bottlenecks that you’ve created on your WordPress website. It will make the process of creating valuable and useful content for your visitors much smoother as well as faster. 

However, there are a few things that you do need to keep on top of when you are managing multiple Administrators on your WordPress website, as I’ve gone through above. 

So go for it, take a chance and add some Administrators to your WordPress website and see for yourself just how much smoother running your WordPress website or blog will become.