Title: BackWPup Admin users
Last modified: May 9, 2019

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# BackWPup Admin users

 *  Resolved [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/)
 * (@hommealone)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-admin-users/)
 * Hi,
 * Sorry, I tacked a question onto an old dormant thread a couple of days ago ( 
   [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-admin/#post-11506358](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-admin/#post-11506358))
   and I know that’s not the way to do it so I am starting my own.
 * What exactly dies it mean for a WP user to have “BackWPup Admin” status? Is it
   necessary to have a user w/ that status? Does a regular “Admin” account have 
   all of the privileges of a “BackWPup Admin” user?
 * We need to delete the (admin) user account that currently has the “BackWPup Admin”
   status. Is it necessary to first give that status to another user, or can we 
   safely delete the user account as long as we have another user w/ regular (WordPress)
   admin status?
 * We created an additional admin user account. Then in the list of users, tried
   to change the status of that new admin user to “BackWPup Admin”, hoping that 
   would _add_ that status to the admin user, so that their status would then show
   as “Admin, BackWPup Admin”, as our original admin user shows. Instead, it _changed_
   their status to simply “BackWPup Admin”, though we want the additional user to
   have admin status and also be a “BackWPup Admin”.
 * What do you recommend?
 * The above referenced support thread recommends re-installing the plugin. We are
   good with how everything is set up and working right now, and do not want to 
   re-install.

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 *  Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/)
 * (@hommealone)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-admin-users/#post-11539490)
 * Sorry for the typo in my original post. Should have been: “What exactly **DOES**
   it mean…”
 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-admin-users/#post-11542697)
 * Hi [@hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/)
    I’m going 
   to answer your questions here: **What exactly does it mean for a WP user to have“
   BackWPup Admin” status? ** that user will have the ability to control all BackWPUp
   functionality: Create/edit/remove job, modify BWU settings …..
 * **Is it necessary to have a user w/ that status? **– not necessary, you can safely
   remove these roles
 * **Does a regular “Admin” account have all of the privileges of a “BackWPup Admin”
   user? **– yes, of course, Admin account can manage everything
 * **We need to delete the (admin) user account that currently has the “BackWPup
   Admin” status. Is it necessary to first give that status to another user, or 
   can we safely delete the user account as long as we have another user w/ regular(
   WordPress) admin status?**
    – no, it not necessary 🙂
 * **We created an additional admin user account. Then in the list of users, tried
   to change the status of that new admin user to “BackWPup Admin”, hoping that 
   would add that status to the admin user, so that their status would then show
   as “Admin, BackWPup Admin”, as our original admin user shows. Instead, it changed
   their status to simply “BackWPup Admin”, though we want the additional user to
   have admin status and also be a “BackWPup Admin”.**
    – you can use a plugin called
   User Role Editor to do that, but as I said, actually BWU roles are not so necessary
 * **The above-referenced support thread recommends re-installing the plugin. **
   
   In your case, there is no need to re-install the plugin because, as I said, BackWPUp
   roles in your case, was not so necessary, these roles created in case you want
   to limit a user to allow only control BackWPUp and nothing else.
 * Hope that helps ^^
 *  Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/)
 * (@hommealone)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-admin-users/#post-11543638)
 * Thanks for your help. That answers my questions.
 *  [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/)
 * (@duongcuong96)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-admin-users/#post-11545162)
 * [@hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/)
    If you find BackWPUp
   is useful for you, we would really appreciate if you leave a positive review 
   and rating. This would encourage us to develop new free features and provide 
   free support 😀 [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/reviews/](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/reviews/)
 * Thank you very much ^^

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