Giving a password to authors

  • is4eso · Member ·

    Hi everybody,

    I’d like to know if it is necessary or advisable to have different passwords for the administrator and the authors of a wordpress blog.

    Thanks a lot!

    Beatriu

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • raincoaster · Member ·

    Yes, of course it’s advisable. Having them all the same (and them knowing they were) would allow any of the authors to impersonate you on signing in and have Administrative powers. It would be a disaster.

    Even if you trust them all with your immortal soul, have them pick a different password from you.

  • justjennifer · Member ·

    Yes it is. Password “sharing” is the biggest risk to having your blog hijacked by an unhappy author. Each author should have their own WordPress.com account/password.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

  • is4eso · Member ·

    Thank you very much!!! but now… my question is… how can I get one single password for all the authors in my blog? Can you please tell me the steps I need to follow to do this?

    Thanks for your help!

  • timethief · Member ·

    Please read this > http://en.support.wordpress.com/passwords/#security

  • raincoaster · Member ·

    When they sign up, they pick their own passwords. You don’t do it for them.

  • is4eso · Member ·

    Thank you very, very much!!!! You’re great!!!

  • is4eso · Member ·

    Sorry, it’s me again! I tried but I couldn’t manage.

    As an administrator I invited as an author someone else (It was me in fact, I invited myself using another of my mail accounts).

    After getting the mail inviting me, I got a link which sent me straight to the blog, but not to a log in box. All the same, after the blog address, I typed log in and I got the typical wordpress log in box.

    But when I tried to sing up with my own ussername and password, I wasn’t allowed to move any further.

    I don’t know what to do at that point. Can you help me?

    Thanks in advance again!

    Beatriu

  • ronsrealm · Member ·

    As justjennifer says, above, each author has to have their own WP account. That includes you in a different guise.

    By using a different email, WP see you as “not you” therefore, when “not you” tries to log in as “you”, it fails.

  • justjennifer · Member ·

    And maybe it sounds obvious, make sure you have logged out of your Admin account first.

  • ludusnaturae · Member ·

    Each author must to have a different account in WordPress.com, from a different email each one.
    Each author must login with a different name and a different password.
    You cannot login in two accounts at the same time, in the same browser.

    Bona sort amb els nois i les noies!

  • equipdocent4eso · Member ·

    Thank you very much all of you!!! All this info was really helpful,

    what I did was:

    get a new gmail account
    me as administrator invite this new gmail account from wp giving just the role of author to this address
    then get into the gmail account and accept the invitation
    and now I can access the wp blog with a different password than mine and work as an author, not an administrator from it.

    as ludusnaturae saw I am a teacher in a sec school and I will be the adminsitrator of the blog. I want all the teachers to participate in it as authors.

    I read somewhere that there were problems giving all the teachers the same password and username, so I think I will get two more different gmail addresses to do the same.

    The idea is give the rest of the teachers as less work as possible when loging in wp, that’s why I don’t want to invite them individually and ask them to accept the invitation and so on.

    Thanks very much for all your help, and I very much appreciate your ideas in case I can improve this way of getting new authors to participate in my blog!

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