Your question is slightly confusing. If all four of you are already posting on the site, then they presumably already have their own login info? Or are all four of you sharing one user account?
If the latter, you can add new users under Users > Add New and give them the admin role, or you can allow users to register themselves by ticking the “anyone can register” box under Settings > General and then set them to the admin role once they’ve signed up.
If it’s the former, and they already have their own accounts, and you’ve already “assigned the others as admins” by which you presumably mean given them the admin role, then I’m not sure what you mean. Could you try explaining in more detail please?
BTW, allowing anyone to register generally results in tons of spammers – so probably not a good way to go.
Four of us are posting blogs on the website, and I have assigned the others as admins
You might consider changing the others’ user role to Author unless you are sure you want everyone present to be able to edit anything and everything as well as to do actual Admin stuff like changing the theme and plugins.
BTW, allowing anyone to register generally results in tons of spammers – so probably not a good way to go.
Yes, oops, I forgot to mention that should only be a temporary thing.
When they sign in and post the only gravatar that shows up is mine. I’d like them to be authors and have changed that. Do they need to sign up as authors? Are there instructions for that?
For now I’m also allowing everyone to register – I’ll shut that down as soon as I get this figured out.
I really appreciate all your help!
When they sign in
This is the crucial bit. When they sign in, are they all using the same username/password or are they signing in with their own accounts?
If they have their own accounts already, you can assign any role you want to them.
When they sign in and post the only gravatar that shows up is mine.
Gravatars are controlled via emails – so they each need to set up a gravatar account using the same email as their user account on your site.
When they sign in, they are using my sign in – I don’t know how to get them their own. How do I give them their own sign ins for this website?
They each have their own gravatar accounts, but I’m pretty sure this is about how we are all signing in.
You (or they) need to create user accounts for each of them – see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
Okay- bad day on my end. I need to make this really simple for myself.
They each have a profile – is this where they set up their own password?
They each need to individually appear in Dashboard > Users with Author accounts and their own e-mail addresses connected to their own avatars just like you already have for yourself here. And then if or after they each have a unique Author account, change your own password so nobody else can ever again log in with your account.
I appreciate all of you very much. I’m still in a bind. So – do you think I should delete the other users and start over? I think I could un-publishi their posts for a bit, then delete them as users, and add them back in? When I add them am I given a chance to give them their own account within the account?
Thank you!
Under the Users menu in admin, if you have each person listed separately then they already have their own accounts and you don’t need to add them again.
What you need to do is click edit on each of those accounts in the Users list, and about halfway down the page there’s a field called “role”. You can use that to set them as administrators or authors or whatever role you prefer.
The users themselves can access their own profile through the Users menu too, and there they can change their email address / password / whatever else they need to keep up to date.
As for Gravatars, the email address showing under “contact info” on this user edit page needs to match an email registered with the Gravatar service.
Thank you! I’ll check with them.
