Access levels
Access levels are very important in Joomla, since they allow us to assign permissions to user groups, and to users. Some access levels are already provided by default in a standard installation, but you can create as many access levels as you need.
Each access level can be assigned to one or more user groups. Let’s explore the standard access levels, displayed in Figure 6.9.
Figure 6.9 – Access Levels
To view the access levels of your website, just click on Access Levels in the Users sidebar menu. As you can see, Joomla comes with five built-in access levels: Public, Guest, Registered, Special, and Super Users. For each of the access levels, we can find the list of user groups assigned to them. In the next section, we’ll see how to create a new access level.
Creating a new access level
To create a new access level, just click on the New button shown in the toolbar. The access level creation screen will look like...