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Joomla's User Menu Links

September 10, 2010 | Written by Steve Burge

One of our Joomla students was wondering what options they could set up for their site's users.

Joomla comes with eight different menu links for users to interact with. 6 of them allow users to control their account by logging in, registering or editing their account. The other 2 links allow people to submit information.

Here are the 8 links with the administrator view first (Menus >> Main Menu >> New) and then the front-end view that your users will see.

Default Login Layout - Allow People to Login to Your Site

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Default Registration Layout - Allow People to Register on Your Site

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Default Remind - Recover Your Forgotten Username

If you've forgotten your username for your account, Joomla will send a reminder to your email address.

  • If you've forgotten your email also ... you'll have to ask the site administrator.
  • If you are the site administrator and you've forgotten your username and email (!), try this tutorial.
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Default Reset Layout - Reset Your Lost Password

Many people will use the same password on many sites (it's not a good idea, but people do it anyway). So for security reasons Joomla will create a new password for you rather than send out the old one. First, you'll have to enter a token that Joomla send to your email address.

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Default User Layout - Just a Simple Welcome Message

To be honest, this is not much use. Sorry.

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User Form Layout - Allow Users to Edit Their Account

If you'd like to turn off the bottom 5 dropdown boxes from Back-end language down to Time Zone, you can do that by going to Site >> Global Configuration >> System >> Front-end User Parameters >> set that option to "No".

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Article Submission Layout - Allow Users to Send in Articles

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Web Link Submission Layout - Allow Users to Send in Weblinks

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