In This Guide

What is an Administrator?
An Administrator is a user to whom complete control over a blog's operation has been granted by the Blog Owner. An Administrator can create and delete any posts, any files, and manage users. An Administrator has essentially the same privileges as the Blog Owner account. One of the few functions not available to a Blog Administrator is the ability to delete the Blog Owner...

A blog owner might grant another user Administrator privileges in order to share maintenance and and administrative tasks. Or a blog owner might wish to create a new user account as an alternate identity or persona with which to post to the blog, and grant that user account Administrator privileges for convenience.

Please use care and discretion when adding Administrators to your weblog.

Adding an Administrator
To add an Administrator, follow these steps:

Go to the "Add User" Page of the User Permissions
The first step is to click the Settings & Security tab in your control panel. Then click on User Permissions in the row of Options underneath that tab. The User Permissions page will present you with the options to List Users, Add User, Invite User, or Manage Groups. Click on the link to Add Users. You will be taken to the Add User page, which looks like this:

Select "Admin" from the "Permission Type" Menu
The Add User page is where you give a user permissions to control, read, or post to your blog. The first step to adding a user is specifying the type of user.

In this case, we want to make this user an Administrator, so select Admin from the Permission Type menu.



Enter the User's Information into the Appropriate Form
The next step is enter the user's information. There are two places where you can enter information, and where you enter it depends on whether the user already has a Blogware account:

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If the user already has a BlogHarbor user account:

Click the Existing User option and enter the user's username into the Username field of the Existing User form.

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If the user does not have a BlogHarbor user account:

In this case you will be doing two things at once: creating a new account for the user and giving that account Administrator privileges.

Click the New User option and enter the fill in the fields of the New User form.

You must fill in these fields:

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Username

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Password and Confirm Password

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Display Name

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Email

Filling in these fields is optional:

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First name

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Last name

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URL

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Timezone

Click the "Add User" Button
Once you have finished filling out the appropriate form, click the Add User button.


You will be taken to the User Permissions page for the user you just added as an Administrator:


If you look at your list of users (do this by clicking on List Users in the User Permissions menu) you'll see the Administrator you just added is now in the list:




Deleting an Administrator
To delete an Administrator, follow these steps:

1. Go to the "List Users" page of the User Permissions control panel

2. Select the Trusted Administrators you wish to delete

3. Click the "Delete Selected" button

4. Click "OK" when the "Are you sure?" window appears

Go to the "List Users" Page of the Controls
Click the Settings & Security tab of the Navigation Bar, then click on User Permissions in the row of Options underneath that tab. The User Permissions page will present you with the options to List Users, Add User, Invite User, or Manage Groups. Click on the link to List Users.


Select the Administrators You Wish to Delete
To select users to delete, check their corresponding Delete checkbox.

In the example below, the user whose username is "anotherexample" is marked for deletion.



Click the "Delete Selected" Button
Once you have finished selecting users to delete, click the Delete Selected button.



Click "OK" When the "Are You Sure?" Window Appears
A window will appear, asking "Are You Sure?".

To continue and delete the users you selected, click OK. To cancel the operation and keep the users, click Cancel.


If you clicked OK, the users will be deleted and the page will reload and display a "Changes saved" message near the top.