In this chapter we will cover:
Creating new user accounts
Managing user roles
Setting up a new user notification
Adding a biography field to the user profile
Building a grid view of profile pictures
Administrating any CMS-based website inevitably requires a degree of involvement with user management. In this chapter, we will cover the various topics related to managing users, starting with a recipe on Creating new user accounts, and then Managing user roles, where we see how to create new user roles with bespoke permissions, and assign users to that role.
In the recipe Setting up a new user notification, we will see how to use Drupal's Trigger and Action functionality to send a notification to administrator users when a new user registers.
We then look at expanding the fields that are available in the user profile in the recipe Adding a biography field to the user profile. This recipe demonstrates the flexible way that Drupal user profiles can be expanded and...