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Wordpress has five roles in version 2.0. for more info, you can go to: Roles and Capabilities « WordPress Codex, here’s a summary from it:

• Administrator - Somebody who has access to all the administration features
• Editor - Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
• Author - Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
• Contributor - Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish posts
• Subscriber - Somebody who can read comments/comment/receive news letters, etc.

So the first thing you need to do, if you have set yourself up as a new user (eg “Cathy” in my case), is allocate yourself the role of administrator so that you still have uber powers over the site.

Check the box next to your new user profile in the User List by Role list and in Update Users, click on “Set the Role of checked users to” and make sure the drop-down list says “Administrator” and click Update. Your new user should now be added to the list under Admistrator. Follow this procedure to add any further users but make sure you don’t give them too high a role and thus too many powers unless you really trust them.

There’s a great plugin called Role Manager which gives you heaps more power over your roles, but we’ll install that later…