Adding New Users

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When you start a new Rosetta site for your locale, you are set as an Editor with a complementary role of Translation Editor and as such, you will be able to add new users with different roles to your locale. For a better understanding of user roles on a locale check out the Roles and Capabilities page.

Adding new Editors, Author and Contributors Adding new Editors, Author and Contributors

To add a new users, go to Users in the admin menu and select New user. Add the e-mail address or the username of the user you wish to add to your site and choose a role for them.

To enable a user to edit translations go to Users and select Translation Editors. Add the e-mail address or the username of the user you wish to add as a Translation Editor and choose the permission level for them. You can enable a Translation Editor to edit translations for all projects, a category of projects, multiple projects or a single project.

The users screen of the en-gb.wordpress.org site

The users screen of the en-gb.wordpress.org site

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Adding new General Translation Editors Adding new General Translation Editors

To add a new Translation Editor, select “Translation Editors” in your dashboard menu:

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In the field at the bottom of the screen, type in the email address or the username of the person you’d like to add, then set the access to All projects (selected by default) from the options below.

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Adding new Project Translation Editors Adding new Project Translation Editors

To add a new Project Translation Editor, follow the same steps:

  • From the Dashboard, select “Translation Editors”
  • At the bottom of the screen, type in the email address or the username of the new PTE
  • Set the access level to Custom like displayed in the image below
  • On the next screen, select the project type (Plugin, Theme, App, etc)
  • Type in the name of the project in the field above the list
  • Check all the projects you’d like to add the user to
  • Click Update
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Mark the access level for Project Translation Editors to “Custom” and click on “Add Translation Editor” to move to the next step of the process.

 

Select all the projects you’d like to add the user to, then click “Update” at the bottom of the screen.

Select all the projects you’d like to add the user to, then click “Update” at the bottom of the screen.

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Configure the automatic email notifications for new translation editors Configure the automatic email notifications for new translation editors

Whenever someone is added as a General Translation Editor or Project Translation Editor they now get a notification via email to let them know that they have been added as a translation editor.

The email includes a list of the projects (name + link) and some other links to help them getting started. Beside the default links, each locale team can extend the email with other helpful resources. To do that you have to create a new navigation menu in the admin of your local main site and assign it to the Resources for translation editors menu location.

Resources for translation editors

The email for General Translation Editors is a bit different, since they are likely part of the team for a bit longer. The email requests them to fill their WordPress.org profile, register on Slack and to subscribe for notifications for their locales.

You’ll find the related strings in the rosetta project at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/meta/rosetta.

Corresponding Meta ticket: #1613-meta