User Groups

In Joomla, User Groups are used to grant permissions to resources, that is, content, menu items, and extensions, in both the frontend and backend. Each user of the website must be assigned to one or more User Groups, as we saw while creating or editing a user account.

Groups are heavily connected to access levels; in fact, each access level should be assigned to one or more groups, granting users of the selected group the permissions defined at that access level. We’ll explore access levels in depth in the next section.

Let’s now review the User Groups available by default in Joomla, as displayed in Figure 6.7.

Figure 6.7 – User Groups

To access the User Groups page, from the sidebar menu click on Users then on Groups. You’ll then see the list of all the groups created on the website, the number of enabled users in each group, the number of blocked users in each group, and a link to check the permissions that...