{"id":1372,"date":"2012-05-25T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/05\/25\/registered-users-only\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:42:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:42:37","slug":"registered-users-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/registered-users-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowing registered users only access in Joomla 2.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alert\">Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12\/31\/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.joomla.org\/Joomla!_CMS_versions\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>From personal experience (from a web hosting technical support rep), I can tell you that many people want the ability to only allow registered users to access certain pages in their site. Joomla 2.5 makes it very easy to block access from the public and only allow registered users the ability to access certain pages. In this Joomla 2.5 tutorial, we\u2019ll walk you through the steps for preventing public access in Joomla 2.5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To prevent public access in Joomla 2.5:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li>Through your Joomla 2.5 admin, open for edit either the article or menu item that you want to prohibit access on<\/li>\n<li>Next to <strong>Access<\/strong>, in the drop down change <strong>Public<\/strong> to <strong>Registered<br><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/edu_joomla25_prevent-public-access_select-registered-access.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/edu_joomla25_prevent-public-access_select-registered-access.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"select-registered-access\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save<\/strong> in the top right menu\n<p>Whenever someone tries to visit the page that is no longer public, they will instead be asked to <strong>Please login first<\/strong>:<br><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/edu_joomla25_prevent-public-access_please-login-first.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"please-login-first\" class=\"std_ss size-full wp-image-7567\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/edu_joomla25_prevent-public-access_please-login-first.gif\" width=\"1058\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>If you\u2019d like, you do have the option to <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/change-please-login-first\/\">change the <em>Please login first<\/em> message<\/a> that you see in the above screenshot.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12\/31\/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. 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