What is a User Role?

The User Role is a new feature to manage members belonging to a Team.

With this feature, a team owner can permit team members to start and stop WordPress, generate artefacts, and deploy it or edit posts.

How to add or edit Role

Check out our support document: How to add and edit Roles.

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Roles and permissions

Owner

The Owner is the user role who can handle everything on Shifter.

The Owner can start and stop WordPress; register and delete domain names; create or delete sites and Teams; generate and publish artifacts, and change billing information.

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Administrator (ex. Site Manager)

Site Managers can start and stop WordPress; generate and publish artifacts; register, attach or detach domain name to the Team belonged Site; also will be able to invite other users to the Team.

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Editor (ex. Member)

Members can start and stop WordPress; generate and publish artifacts for their teams.

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Contributor (ex. Editor)

The Editor can start and stop WordPress for their Team, but cannot publish artifacts. “Auto Publish” is disabled for this user.

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List of the roles and viable operations by them

All user roles are permitted to

• Start, stop, and login to WordPress, which belongs to the Team.

Contributor (ex. Editor) role is permitted to

• All of the above.

Editor (ex. Member) role is permitted to

• All of the Contributor (ex. Editor) role can do.

• Generate, preview, and download Artifacts that belongs to the Team.

• Deploy Aritfacts.

Administrator (ex. Site Manager) role is permitted to

• All of the Editor (ex. Member) role can do.

• Attach or detach domain names to the Site which belongs to the Team.

• Manage domain name belongs to the Team.

• Will be able to invite one or more users to the Team and remove them from Team.

Owner role is permitted to

• All of the Administrator (ex Site Manager) roles can do.

• Create, rename and delete Sites.

• Create, rename and delete Teams.

• Register, delete domain names and assign to the Site.

• Update billing information.