Getting started with Drupal Gardens
After your site is up and running, you'll want to decide who can join it and what your members can see and do.
Set up site membership
If you are building a community, you might want registered users to see and do more on your site than non-member visitors. If you have co-authors or content contributors, they’ll need to be registered before they can start contributing.
You can allow all visitors join your site, or let all visitors apply but require your approval to join, or make your site invitation-only. Specify these settings and many more regarding user accounts on your site at Configuration > Account settings. For more information, see Managing user accounts.
Specify access
Now that you can control who joins your site, you'll want to control what they can see and do. Drupal gives you fine-grained access control with the combination of user roles and permissions.
You can assign one or more "user roles" to each visitor. Choose from the following default user roles:
- Administrator - This role can be assigned to registered users and is automatically assigned to all available permissions on your site. Only give it to people you trust!
- Site maintainer - This role belongs to the site creator and includes all permissions.
- Anonymous - All unregistered site visitors have the anonymous user role. Anyone who visits your site, but isn't logged in, has the anonymous user role.
- Authenticated - All registered and logged-in users have the authenticated user role.
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Go to People > Permissions > Roles to create custom user roles, such as "club member", "editor", and "author".
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Assign roles to users on the People page at People > List.
You can filter this list using the Show only users where option and perform bulk operations on those users with the Update options drop-down menu. Update options includes adding or removing a role, blocking/unblocking users, and more.
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Assign and remove permissions for all user roles on the Permissions page at People > Permissions > Permissions.
These permissions are cumulative so you have all the permissions of all the user roles assigned to you. This includes permissions assigned to the "authenticated" role if you are logged in.
If you have a large number of roles, you can edit an individual role's permissions by clicking its edit permissions link at People > Permissions > Roles.
For more information, see User roles and permissions.