User management is important to a website, so Joomla 5 offers administrators a strong user management system. Joomla 5 provides User Groups, user access Levels, and user custom fields. This tutorial will teach us how to create users and user groups in Joomla 5.
Create a New User in Joomla 5
Normally some websites offer visitors to register on the front-end site and create their username and password. so these users have been inserted in Joomla users database tables and located in the users > manage in the Joomla 5 administrator. If the website’s admin wants to create new users from the backend there are the following steps:-
- Go to Administrator using the admin login
- Go to Users > Manage > New
- Enter User Details – Name can be simple text, Login Name OR username must be unique can be used Alpha-numeric, Password must contain 12 characters with the combination of Alpha-numeric + special character + Capital Latter. Email IDs also should be unique.
- Select user group—By default, the Registered user group is assigned to a new user, but you can change or assign more than one user group to a user.
- Click on the Save & Close Button
Create a New User Group in Joomla 5
Groups are useful for categorizing your site users and defining roles. When we create a new user account, a default user group is assigned; other groups are available, such as “Administrator”, “Superuser”, “Editor”, “Manager”, etc.
There are the following steps :
- Go to Users > Groups > New
- Enter the Group Title and Select a Parent Group
Create an Access Level in Joomla 5
Access Level is a set of permissions a user group can access and what the group can do. To create a new access level follow the below steps:
- Go to Users > Access Level > New
- Assign the Custom group to access this access level.
Test The Group and Access Level
Now time is testing a group and access level, so let’s create a menu item and link any article. assign our newly created Custom Access.
for access choose the custom group. Also, you can restrict to article by assigning access levels like custom access.
