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title: Manually Create Personal Pages for WordPress Users
description: "It is possible to create a personal page for users on your WordPress site. One common use for personal pages is when a company or school wants to give staff members their own page to maintain. [There is also process…"
url: "https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/manual-personal-pages/"
updated: "2026-10-15"
category: "How-to Guides / Personal Pages"
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# Manually Create Personal Pages for WordPress Users

It is possible to create a personal page for users on your WordPress site.

One common use for personal pages is when a company or school wants to give staff members their own page to maintain. [There is also process for creating these personal pages automatically](https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/how-to-create-a-personal-page-for-each-wordpress-user/). We recommend that for sites with many users, or sites that regularly add new users. If you only need a few personal pages, the solution in this guide is simpler to set up and maintain.

Start by creating the user accounts on your site. I recommend adding these accounts in the "Subscriber" user role. This the safest role in WordPress with the minimum level of permissions.

- Go to "Pages" in your WordPress admin menu. You can use another post type if you want.
- Click "Add New".
- Give the page a title. In this example, I named the page after the staff member. This makes it very easy to see who can edit this page.

![Fred](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/fred-1024x430.png)
Fred

- Scroll down and look for the box labelled, "Permissions: Edit this Page".

![Edit Page](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/edit-page.png)
Edit Page

- Click the "Users" tab.
- Enter the user in the box

- Click "Search".
- Your user will appear in the "Search Results" area.

![](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/select-user-in-edit-specific-page-1024x482.png)
Search For User

- Click the "Select" button.
- You can now set this user's editing permissions to "Enabled".
- Click "Save" for this Page.

![](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Edit-page-specific-user-1024x485.png)
Select User

I would recommend that you test the new account with access to this Page. This is easier to do with [the User Switching plugin installed](https://publishpress.com/blog/user-switching-plugin/) or if you have [PublishPress Capabilities](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities), you can use [user testing](https://publishpress.com/blog/capabilities/user-testing/) feature.

When the user logs in to WordPress, this image shows what they should see. They will have access to their page, but no other content or areas of WordPress.

![Freds Page](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/freds-page-1024x505.png)
Freds Page