108: Working with Users in Joomla 2.5

In this article, we'll show you how to setup Joomla 2.5 so that you can prevent the public from viewing certain pages in your site. After you follow these steps, only registered users will be able to view the pages that you specify.

When a public users tries to visit a registered users only page in Joomla 2.5, they will see a message stating Please login first. In this Joomla 2.5 tutorial, we'll show you how to change that Please login first text to anything you'd like.

If your Joomla 2.5 website is not community driven, in this article we'll show you how to prevent new users from registering.

In this article, we'll walk you through the steps for creating a new Joomla 2.5 admin user.

You can easily disable notification emails to administrators in Joomla 2.5 after new users register for an account.

Be default, Joomla 2.5 is configured to send passwords through email. Using the Language Override tool, you can strip these emails of any passwords they include.

If you've forgotten a Joomla 2.5 user's password, you can easily reset it using phpMyAdmin or any other MySQL client. This will work for both standard Joomla 2.5 users and administrators.

If you need to manually update a Joomla 2.5 user's email address, you can use the User Manager to do so.

In this article, we'll walk you through the steps for creating a new note for a Joomla 2.5 users. Notes allow you to keep track of user activity and makes it easy to share information among other administrators.