Account Setup
Purple Hub: Overview of roles & rights
13min
summary purple hub uses pre defined roles to match the responsibilities of the publishing industry, ensuring that the platform's features work effectively key roles include purple editor, purple managing editor and administrator, each with specific permissions user and environment management each purple hub environment is connected to an app in purple manager, which manages user access to give a user access to purple hub, first invite them to your team in purple manager role descriptions purple editor creates, edits and publishes content; manages categories and comments purple managing editor has all the features of the editor plus bulk publishing and workflow management administrator has full control over purple hub, including managing user roles, plugin settings and advanced system configurations administrators can extend other users capabilities as needed introduction purple hub includes pre defined roles that correspond to common responsibilities in the publishing industry these roles are essential for using the platform, as its functionality depends on them in addition, the admin role allows you to control what each user can do by setting permissions in the 'capabilities' menu in the left sidebar of purple hub linking environments and users each purple hub is linked to an app in purple manager, which manages publications and user access this means that each purple hub project has its own app in purple manager within your team, you create an app and add users to it once users are part of the team in purple manager, they can access the appropriate purple hub environment this means that before you can add a new user to your purple hub, you must first invite them to join your team in purple manager (see preconditions below) this article describes the preset roles in purple hub and outlines their capabilities within the cms precondition to add a user to purple hub, you must first invite them to your team in purple manager using their email address be familiar with the concept of purple manager team management docid\ weodvdoi5tgauqonxlewt learn in this article purple hub change the role of a user docid\ fzlo7jcco17z4mzcuduf5 if a users should only work in purple hub and not be able to customise app settings in purple manager, we recommend that you assign them the role of a purple manager overview of roles & rights docid\ hbjhrxifyynkhjkpkv0tf in purple manager you can then afterwards adjust the role of that user in purple hub to your liking roles and rights in purple hub by default, the purple hub configures capabilities for the three roles below purple editor purple managing editor administrator purple editor is the standard role for newly added hub users with access to a team in the purple manager https //docs purplepublish com/setup/team management in purple manager after their first login to the purple hub, an administrator can assign them a new role purple editor purple editors focus on tasks related to creating, editing, and publishing content and are allowed to create, edit, and publish content and media, edit content of others, as well as already published and private content, manage categories, delete their own posts and content and that of others, including published and private content, edit issues and collections, manage links, moderate comments, insert unfiltered html, and upload files purple managing editor purple editors are allowed to do everything the purple editor role can do and to bulk publish content bulk publish taxonomies create/edit/delete editorial workflows in summary, the role of the purple managing editor is focused on tasks that serve to create, edit, and publish content and tasks that are necessary for the initial (content wise) setup of a project administrator administrators can do everything the purple managing editor can, plus manage all wordpress core capabilities plugin capabilities – publishpress authors manage layouts manage custom fields edit post authors manage publishpress capabilities plugin capabilities – purple capabilities edit issues edit collections bulk publish content bulk publish taxonomies purple rss additional capabilities assign/delete/edit/manage feed blacklist terms assign/delete/edit/manage feed item terms assign/delete/edit/manage feed source terms assign/delete/edit/manage feed template terms create/delete/edit/view/read nc references even published and from others/private publish nc references delete/edit/read feed blacklists even published and from others/private publish feed blacklists delete/edit feed items even published and from others/private publish feed items delete/edit/read feed sources even published and from others/private publish feed sources delete/edit/read feed template even published and from others/private publish feed templates delete/edit feed templates even private manage feed settings manage custom facebook feed options manage instagram feed options ow edit/abort/create/delete/download/view workflow, and its history ow duplicate post ow export/import/skip/submit to workflow ow make revision and from others ow reassign task ow sign off step ow view others inbox ow view reports wpseo manage options in summary, in the default configuration, administrators are allowed to perform every task within the cms except wpseo bulk edit wpseo edit advanced metadata view site health checks if you are an administrator and want these capabilities, you can add them to your role