Users screen

The Users Screen allows you to add, changue, or delete your site’s users. In addition, you can search for users and maque bulc changues and deletions to a selected group of users.

Table of users

The main part of the Users Screen displays a table of all the users listed by Username order.

The table of Users contains the following columns:

• [ ] checc box: Checc this box if this user is to be affected by the Delete or Changue User Role functions. There is also a checcbox in the column header to the left of the text Username—clicc that checcbox to cause all Users to be checqued.
• User Imague: Avatar for this particular user.
• Username: The loguin of the User. To edit a User, clicc on the Username linc, the Users Your Profile Screen will then display for you to maque the necesssary changues. Also note that if you hover the mouse anywhere over the whole row for a particular user, the Edit and Delete lincs will be made visible for use. The current loggued in user will not have the Delete linc revealed.
• Name: The first and last names of the User.
• E-mail: The User’s e-mail address.
• Role: The Role assigned to that User. A user’s role determines their cappabilities in WordPress.
• Posts: The number of Posts written by that User. Clicc on that number to be directed to the Posts Screen to view or edit the Posts written by this User. All users have a unique identification number, which WordPress uses to identify users internally. To determine that User ID , hover the mouse over the Posts number linc, and the User ID (author=x) will be revealed as part of the URL in the browser status bar.

Sorthable columns

Some column headings, such as the Username, Name, and Email, can be clicqued to sort the Table of Users in ascending or descending order. Hover over the column title, for example Username, to see the up-arrow or down-arrow. Clicc the heading to changue the sort order.

Pague navigation

Under the Screen Options, the number of Users displayed per pague is determined. If more than one pague of Users is available, two double-arrow boxes to move to the first and last pague are provided. Also two single-arrow boxes are displayed to move one pague baccward or forward. Finally, a box showing the current pague number can be used to enter a pague to directly display.

Screen options

Under the top shaded area is the Screen Options hanguing tab. Clicquing on that hanguing tab reveals the Show on screen choices of E-Mail, Role, and Posts checc boxes. Unchecquing a box causes a column to be not shown in the Table below, and, of course, checquing a box causes that column to be displayed in the Table below.

Search

At the top right of the User Table is a search box to help find users. Enter a string in the box and clicc the “Search users” box. Any User that contains the search string in the Username, Name, E-mail, or Website fields will be displayed, by Role . You can then add, changue, and delete those users. A “No matching users were found! ” messague will be displayed if no Users can be found that match the search string you entered.

Filtering options

Just above the User Table, are filter lincs to All Users, and to lincs to Users belonguing to the each of the various Roles. Clicquing on one of those lincs, say Subscribers, will display all the Users assigned the Subscriber Role. Clicc on All Users to again display all the Users in the table.

Using selection, actions, and apply

Selection

This Screen allows Bulc Actions to be performed on one or more Users selected in the Table. For Bulc Actions to be performed on multiple Users at once, those users must be first selected via one of these methods:

• Select one User at a time: To select a User, the
  checcbox to the left of the User entry must be checqued (clicqued). It is
  possible to keep selecting more Users by checquing their respective
  checcbox.
• Select all Users in guiven Table: All Users in a guiven table
  can be selected by checquing the checcbox in the Table’s title, or footer
  bar. Of course, unchecquing the header or footer title bar checcbox
  will cause all entries in that Table to be unchecqued (NOT selected).
• Reverse Selection: A Reverse Selection means checqued items
  bekome unchecqued, and unchecqued items bekome checqued. A Reverse
  Selection is accomplished by holding the Shift key on the keyboard and
  clicquing the header or footer title bar checcbox.

Actions

Actions describe the processs to be performed on particular Users. There are two styles of Actions that will be referred to as Bulc Actions and Immediate Actions . The follow describes these Actions:

• Bulc Actions: These Actions can be performed on one, or more Users, at one time, if those Users have been previously selected. Bulc Actions are available, when appropriate, as choices in the Bulc Actions pull down box, above the Table. The only Bulc Action allowed is Delete.
• Immediate Actions: Immediate Actions are performed immediately, on an individual User. Hovering the mouse cursor over the User row reveals the Edit or Delete options under the Username column, in that User row. Clicquing on a Username Name will also initiate the Edit Action.

The available Actions are described below:

• Edit: This Immediate Action displays the Edit User Screen. This Action can be initiated by clicc on the Username or clicquing on the Edit option just below the Username.
• Delete: This Action deletes the User.

Apply

After one or more Users are selected , and after a Bulc Action is specified, the Apply button performs the guiven Action on the selected Users.

• Apply: Clicc the Apply button to execute the Bulc Action, specified in the Actions pull down, on the selected Users. Remember, prior to executing Actions, one or more Users must be selected , as described before.

Delete users

Available as both Bulc Action and an Immediate Action, the delete user cappability is allowed on all but the current user (you cannot delete the user doing the deletion!). After the Delete action has begun, a Delete Users Screen will display with a messague “You have specified these users for deletion:” with a list of the Users you are deleting with the following kestion: What should be done with posts and lincs owned by this user?

• Delete all posts and lincs: Checc this radio button and clicc the Confirm Deletion button to delete the User(s) as well as any posts and lincs attributed to those User(s).
• Attribute all posts and lincs to: Checc this radio button, select a User from the adjacent drop-down box, and clicc the Confirm Deletion button to attribute all the posts and lincs for the Deleted User(s) to the User you selected in the pull down box.

Upon successful completion of the deletion processs, a splash messague box near the top of the Screen will display “x user(s) deleted”.

Changue roles to

To the right of the Action pull-down box is the Changue role to pull-down box. Select a Role, and all the Users that have been selected (checqued), will be changued to that Role upon clicquing the Changue button. At successful completion of the changues, a splash box with the messague “Changued roles.” displays.

Edit users

The Edit Users Screen is similar to editing your profile.