Joomla!® For Dummies®

Chapter 10. Managing Your Web Site's Users

In This Chapter

• Understanding Joomla's eight user levels

• Adding new users to your site

• Editing user accounts

• Creating a contact page

• Managing e-mail on your site

• Giving users options that they can manage themselves

This chapter is all about giving the users of your site user privileges: author, administrator, registered user, and so on. A Joomla site has eight levels of users; in this chapter, you see all of them and what they can do.

Rest assured that you're still the super administrator — and the super admin can do anything it's possible to do on a Joomla site.

Introducing the Wonderful World of Joomla Users

Joomla sites can have eight levels of users, starting with the front-end users:

• Public users are casual surfers of your site.

• Registered users can log in to see resources that are reserved for them.

The next three levels of front-end users fall into the Special user class, along with all the back-end users:

• Authors can submit articles.

• Editors can submit new articles and edit existing articles.

• Publishers can submit new articles, edit existing articles, and publish articles.

Finally, the back end has three levels of users:

• Managers can manage everything having to do with site content.

• Administrators can perform administrative functions.

• Super administrators can do anything that's possible to do on a Joomla site.

How do you handle these various types of users and give them their privileges in the first place? You use the Joomla User Manager.

Managing Users ...