Add a User to a WordPress Site

Faculty, staff and students must sign in to https://sites.stlawu.edu/ with their St. Lawrence network credentials at least once to activate their account. Once a user has signed in, they can be added as subscribers (read only), contributors (read and submit post for publishing), authors (read, submit and publish posts), editors (read, submit, publish and edit any posts) or administrators (read, submit, publish, edit and full access to site configuration and management) to any site.

For faculty using WordPress in their teaching, set aside class time to:

• Allow students to sign in thereby activating their account and allowing them to be added to your class site
• Provide an overview on how to create a post

Consider scheduling a workshop with an Educational Technologist who can come to class and provide basic or advanced training. Submit a service request, or Contact the ODY Service Desk to arrange for a training.

Add users

Users do not exist until they sign in to https://sites.stlawu.edu at least once with their St. Lawrence network credentials. Users who have signed in at least once are Existing Users and can be added as an Existing User.  Users who have never signed in must be added as a New User. The only way you can be sure that a student has signed in (thereby elimanating needing to guess) is to have them sign in during class.

Add Existing User

Use this option if the student has already signed in to https://site.stlawu.edu at least once. If you add an existing user and receive a message that the user does not exist, add them as a New User.

1. Log in to https://sites.stlawu.edu with your St. Lawrence network credentials
2. Select My Sites to select the site you wish to add a user to
3. Select Users
4. Select Add New
5. Under Add Existing User, add user with their full St. Lawrence email address
6. Assign a role
7. Check the box to Skip confirmation email
8. Click Add Existing User

If you receive a message that the user does not exist, they have not signed in and must be added as a New User.

Add New User

Use this option if the student has never signed in to https://site.stlawu.edu. If you receive a message that the user already exists, add them as an Existing User.

1. Log in to https://sites.stlawu.edu with your St. Lawrence network credentials
2. Select My Sites to select the site you wish to add a user to
3. Select Users
4. Select Add New
5. Under Add New User, add user with both their username (e.g. if email is fmlast21@stlawu.edu, username is fmlast21) and email
6. Assign a role
7. Check the box to Skip confirmation email
8. Click Add New User

If you receive a message that the user already exists, add them as an Existing User.