Understanding Joomla Administration Access Levels
It is important to know and understand the difference in Joomla access levels in order to correctly assign privileges to content, menu items and modules. The access levels for Joomla 1.5.x as viewed via Joomla Administrator –> Site –> User Manager –> User Name:
Depending on the assigned user levels such as “Manager” a user will have the following privileges as described below for the following groups:
Joomla Backend Administration Levels:
| Super Aministrator | Administrator | Manager | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site – Joomla Control Panel | yes | yes | yes |
| Site – User Manager | yes | yes | |
| Site – Media Manager | yes | yes | yes |
| Site – Global Configuration | yes | ||
| Site – Logout | yes | yes | yes |
| Menus – Menu Manager | yes | yes | |
| Menus – Menu Trash | yes | yes | |
| Menus – $menu | yes | yes | yes |
| Content – Article Manager | yes | yes | yes |
| Content – Article Trash | yes | yes | |
| Content – Section Manager | yes | yes | yes |
| Content – Category Manager | yes | yes | yes |
| Components – Contacts | yes | yes | yes |
| Components – Search | yes | yes | yes |
| Components – $component | yes | yes | yes |
| Extensions – Install/Uninstall | yes | yes | |
| Extensions – Module Manager | yes | yes | |
| Extensions – Plugin Manager | yes | yes | |
| Extensions – Template Manager | yes | ||
| Extensions – Language Manager | yes | ||
| Tools – Read Messages | yes | ||
| Tools – Write Messages | yes | ||
| Tools – Mass Mail | yes | ||
| Tools – Global Check-In | yes | yes | |
| Tools – Clean Cache | yes | yes | |
| Help – Joomla Help | yes | yes | yes |
| Help – System Info | yes | yes | yes |
I will be adding the frontend admin levels to the blog when I can get to this…