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The Users button takes you to the section for managing your Users. The main area called Authors & Users gives a list of all your users with their usernames, actual names, email addresses, their assigned role, and how many posts they’ve created. If your website doesn’t accept users, then your name will be the only one listed.
You can edit each user’s info, assign them a role, or delete a user.
The first user created is always the Admin (administrator). This is a role that grants the user permission to make any and all changes to the website.
Other roles for users are:
Editor – Someone who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
Author – Someone who can publish and manage their own posts
Contributor – Someone who can write and manage their own posts but NOT publish posts
Subscriber – Someone who can read comments, leave comments, receive newsletters, etc.
By default new users are automatically assigned as Subscribers unless you change the setting (Settings – General).
The purpose for having these different roles is in case there’s more than one person making changes to your website or you want to give users or just certain users the ability to add content to your website.
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Users_Authors_and_Users_SubPanel
Add New User
You can manually add new users using this button. Input their name, give them a username and password, assign a role to them, and enter their email address. You can even check off whether or not you want them to receive an email with the password automatically.
Note: Passwords should not be easy to guess. The password should be at least 8 characters long. Use upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols like ! ” ? $ % ^ & ).
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Users_Add_New_SubPanel
Your Profile
This is a shortcut to your (the person logged in) user settings. Here you can change your own password if you need to.
Find out more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Users_Your_Profile_SubPanel
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