Create and Manage Site Contributors
Once you create a site, you can add site contributors - users that are not the owners of the site, but have varying access to edit that site and some of the site's settings.
Note: Site Contributors are not available to all Weebly installations. If you do not have this functionality and want more info, contact your Weebly business development sales rep.
What are Site Contributors?
Site contributors are users that have access to edit a site, but are not owners of the site. For example, a site owner might employ a blog post writer who should have access to blog pages and nothing else. Or they might have someone who does order fulfillment and should only be able to view orders.
Site contributors can have one of two levels of access:
Site contributors can have one of two levels of access:
- Admin: The user can do everything that the owner can.
- Limited: The user can only access the specific functionality (such as editing certain pages, ability to publish the site, ability to change settings) that is assigned to them.
Create a Site Contributor
You add site contributors in Cloud Admin, from the Site Detail page (select a user and then select a site). When you click Add Contributor, you can choose to either create a new user or select an existing user.
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Once the user is selected, click Set Permissions and either give them full permission to the site (by not selecting Limit Editor Permissions), or set explicit permissions by selecting that checkbox and then configuring access:
Once the user is selected, click Set Permissions and either give them full permission to the site (by not selecting Limit Editor Permissions), or set explicit permissions by selecting that checkbox and then configuring access:
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Once set, the user will appear as a contributor on the site's detail page, where you can view and manage the assigned permissions, or delete the user as a contributor (deleting a user as a contributor does not delete them as a Weebly user, it only revokes permissions to access this site).
Once set, the user will appear as a contributor on the site's detail page, where you can view and manage the assigned permissions, or delete the user as a contributor (deleting a user as a contributor does not delete them as a Weebly user, it only revokes permissions to access this site).
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You can view all sites that a user contributes to from the user's detail page. However you cannot edit permissions from here. You'll need to click on the site to access that site's detail page, where you can then edit permissions.
You can view all sites that a user contributes to from the user's detail page. However you cannot edit permissions from here. You'll need to click on the site to access that site's detail page, where you can then edit permissions.
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