In this chapter:
We went through the process a new member would go through to register for our site.
We looked through the out of the box functionality that is available to members using our site.
We set up a new Editors member group and walked through the various ways we could either restrict or open up the permissions for that member group.
We logged in to the control panel as a member of our Editors member group and were able to see how different it was to the control panel we have been used to.
We walked through how to use conditional statements to create member-only areas of our site. We can create member-only pages or text on a page that only members of a certain member group can see, or we can make entire templates only accessible to certain member groups.
We saw how to use Stand-Alone Entry Forms to replicate the functionality of the Publish page within our own site.
We briefly overviewed the member communication options, including setting up and managing mailing lists that members...