So far in this book, we've focused on working with a personal website: one that belongs to and is used by just one person. However, many blogs are used in a different way--there may be a single blog or website with a variety of writers, editors, and administrators. This makes the site more like a community project or even an online magazine.
Furthermore, it's by no means uncommon for bigger online publishers to use WordPress as the base of their websites. In which case, the site has a number of authors, editors, reviewers, and overall contributors with varying responsibilities. Not to mention the technical staff or designers.
In this chapter, we'll discuss allowing a blog to have multiple authors with differing levels of control over the blog's administration and content. We'll explore user management for multiple users on one blog,...
