201: Joomla 2.5 Access Control Lists

In this Joomla 2.5 tutorial, we'll begin our discussion on ACL, Access Control Lists. ACL is what allows you to give certain groups of users on your website certain rights, such as logging in and creating new content.

Continuing with our tutorial series on Joomla 2.5 ACL, in this article we will cover in more depth Joomla's Core Permissions.

Creating a new User Group in Joomla 2.5 allows you to take advantage of ACL and give different permissions to different groups of users. In this tutorial, we will create a user group for teachers in our fictional school website.

In this Joomla 2.5 ACL tutorial, we'll show you how to add a Joomla 2.5 user to a new user group. In our fictional school website, we are assigning our Ivana Teach user to our Teachers user group.

In this Joomla 2.5 ACL tutorial, we'll show you how to adjust user group permissions based upon a specific article category. In our fictitious school website, we will allow our Teachers user group the permission to Delete within the Online Courses category.

In this tutorial, we'll show you the process of how a user can write and submit an article from the front end in Joomla 2.5