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Along with other tasks - adding a new user to WordPress is the only a couple of minutes tasks and allows you to provide individual logins in order to accurately view changes and the history of those changes such as "Who Published what" and when. 

The pre-requisites to perform this task is;

• Ability to log into a Wordpress site as an Administrator. 

How to add a new user to Wordpress

Below is a step-by-step guide to adding a new user.

#	Step	Description / Example
1	Visit the Domain	Open up your preferred browser and type in your website's URL and add /wp-admin/ to the end of it. Example; domain.com.au/wp-admin/
2	Log into the Website	You will be presented with a Wordpress branded login screen which will contain a username and a password text field. Use the website's Administration login details.
3	Click Users > Add New	Once you are logged in - hover your mouse cursor over Users(1) on the left hand side menu, then click Add New(2);
4	Complete mandatory fields	You then need to enter in the 'required' fields and any other fields that you find necessary; Field - Username This is required or mandatory and needs to be unique. Field - Email  This is a required or mandatory and needs to be unique. It can be used as the username when logging in. Field - First Name This is not required but it is highly recommended that this be accurate if a few users are planned to be added. It also allows you to stylise the "Nickname" which means that Authors are full names and not usernames or email address. Field - Last Name Just like the First Name field - this isn't required but is recommended. Field - website Not required and would be personal preference as to whether it should be added. Field - Language Unless otherwise needed or necessary then this should remain as the Site Default. Field - Password This field will automatically be displayed and generated in order to encourage strong password being used. This field will be discussed a little further under distributing the password. Field - Send User Notification This field doesn't need to be checked as it would depend on how you plan on distributing the password. This will be discussed further below
5	Distributing the password	There are a few ways that you are able to distribute the password to the user; Set it and tell them (not recommended) In the Password field, you can set your own password for the new user and use the strength meter to ensure that its a strong password. You would manually either verbally or in a written format tell the user what the password is. Tick Send User Notification You can set the password as the default generation and ensure that the Send User Notification checkbox is checked. This will send the user an email that looks very similar to; The user can then click the first link in order to set their own / change to a new password (changing the password is highly recommended). The user initiates a forget my password process This is very similar to the Send User Notification, but if you want the user to control when and how they set the password then this process is useful. As you have created the user account (after clicking save) - the user can visit the Wordpress login screen and click Forgot my password. They then need to enter in either their username or associated email address to get Wordpress to generate the Forgot my password email. It looks similar to the following screen shot;
6	Completed	That's it! You are done =D

Troubleshooting

Below is a table containing the issue along with a few solutions to try.

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