Create a new user account

Create a new user account for Priya Shah, marketing intern, username priya.shah, email priya@greenmarketco.com, role Contributor, and set account to require review before publishing. Send her a welcome email with login instructions, a link to the author guidelines, and ask her to submit a test draft by next Wednesday.

Before I create Priya Shah’s Contributor account, make it easy for the marketing lead to approve. Put Priya’s exact email, desired username, and the one-sentence justification for Contributor access at the top. Show the minimal permissions that Contributor gives and the key things she cannot do, call out whether she needs plugin or media upload rights, and recommend whether Contributor or Author is better for her first month.

Priya Shah from marketing asked for an account to help write posts. I’m afraid giving her Author rights will let her publish unchecked, but Contributor will block her from uploading images she needs. I don’t know how much the marketing lead expects her to publish versus draft. What’s the best compromise role and onboarding step so she can do real work without exposing the site to risk?

We keep giving new hires Author roles on day one, which leads to accidental live posts and emergency rollbacks. Which habit should I change to reduce these mistakes while still allowing new people to contribute? Recommend a specific onboarding role, a checklist for first-week permissions, and one enforcement practice to adopt across the team starting next hire.