User's Manual

Chapter 3: Joomla! Users
Joomla! 1.0.11 User Manual 33 Version 1.0.1.
Chapter3:Joomla!Users
Introduction
This Chapter deals with:
ThedifferenttypesofJoomla!Users
UserRegistration
Recoveringalostpassword
LoggingintotheFront‐end
User’sAccountDetails
TypesofUsersandAccessPermissions
Users of Joomla! web sites can be broken down into two broad categories:
Guests
RegisteredUsers
Guests are simply visitors to your Joomla! web site. Depending on how the Super Administrator
has configured the site, some content can only be viewed by Registered users while visitors can
only browse a limited amount of it, or all the content can be accessible.
Registered Users have registered with your site to obtain a username and password. This
username and password allows Registered Users to log into your site, receiving special privileges
not available to guests. Registered Users are broken down into two groups:
Front‐endUsers
Back‐endUsers.
 Note: The admin panel refers to these two groups of users as Public Front-end and Public Back-
end.
Front‐endUsers
Front-end Users get additional rights over guests, which may include the ability to create and
publish content on the web site. We will generally refer to these users as content providers since
their primary goal is to provide content on the web site, not to administer the site or alter its
design.
Content providers may provide new content through the web interface using an embedded
WYSIWG (What You See Is What You Get) editor without any knowledge of HTML coding.
Within the Front-end User classification there are four specific levels, the site administrator can
assign. These levels are: Registered, Author, Editor, and Publisher.