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Managing roles and permissions

What you can do with blog settings or content depends on your role. Community owners can expand or restrict members' permissions, and add or remove members.

Owner permissions

Blog owners can:

  • Create a blog or delete a blog that they own.
  • View, create, edit, or delete all content (entries and comments in both the draft and published state) for a blog they own.
  • View, create, and delete all links in the blog.
  • Upload files and create directories and view or delete any uploaded file or directory.
  • View and edit settings for the blog, such as General and Authors settings.

Author permissions

Blog authors can:

  • View, create, edit, or delete blog entries that they created, regardless of whether the entries are in the draft state or posted to the blog.
  • View, create, edit, or delete links.
  • Upload files and create directories and view or delete any uploaded file or directory they added to the blog.

Draft permissions

Draft authors can:

  • View, create, edit, or delete a blog draft entry that they own.
  • Edit others' entries when the setting Allow authors and drafters to edit each other's entries in this blog is selected for the blog. For more information, see Editing general blog settings.
  • Upload files and create directories. Draft authors cannot delete files or directories.

Managing roles and permissions

To add or remove members, and update permissions for the blog:

  1. From the navigation bar, click Blogs then select the My Blogs tab.
  2. Click Settings for the blog that you want to manage.
  3. In the side panel, click Authors then perform any of the following actions:
    • To add a member:
      1. Click Add members and select the role that you want to assign the new member.
      2. In the Type to find person field, enter the person's name or email address, then select from the suggestions that appear.
      3. Click Save.
    • To remove a member, select the Remove box for the member that you want to remove, then Save.
    • To change a member's role, select the Owner, Author, or Draft box for the member that you want to promote or demote.

Parent topic:Managing a blog