Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide

Time for action – adding a user with frontend authoring permissions

Let's create user accounts for a couple of club members who'll become content contributors.

1. Navigate to Users | User Manager.
2. There's just one user, you. By default, Joomla calls this first user Super User (and this user belongs to the Super User group). To add another user, click on the New button in the toolbar.
3. In the Add New User screen, add Account Details as desired. In this example, we've entered Jim Van Gogh in the Name field. In the Login Name field we've entered jvgogh. Enter a Password and a valid Email address for the new user.
   
4. In the Assigned User Group section, select ...