Users Dashboard

The first contact of the website administrator with Joomla’s features related to user management is represented by Users Dashboard, displayed in Figure 6.1.

Figure 6.1 – Users Dashboard

Users Dashboard shows three modules with links to user-related functionalities:

• The first module, called Users, has links to manage users, groups, and access levels, plus the link to create a new user.
• The second module is called User Fields and has links to manage custom fields and field groups. As you can guess, you can create custom fields to enrich your users’ profiles with additional data.
• The third module is Miscellaneous, and it includes links to the User Notes, User Note Categories, and Mass Mail Users functionalities.

We will explore each of the features linked by the three modules in the following sections of this chapter.

The dashboard also includes the Logged-in Users module, which shows a list of...