What is a Member Account?

A login to your website. You can give each person accessing your site their own member account, or you can give an account to a group of people. No matter what, the member accounts you set up will be given the permission of whatever audience they're placed into.

How are Audiences related to Member Accounts?

Members have accounts within Audiences. Audiences define a role (permissions), and Member Accounts are each individual's login to your site. Member Accounts may belong to one audience each.

What is an Editor? What is a regular Member?

An editor is any Member Account that is part of an Audience that can modify/contribute content to your pages and posts. Any member accounts that are not Editors are just referred to as simply Members. Your website package determines how many editors and members you can create within your site.

Note: Editors to your site do not have administration access to make structure or appearance changes.  Those settings are controlled by the owner account.

How do I create a member account? Can visitors sign up automatically?

With the Pro package and higher you can manually create member accounts on your site, using the instructions for this here. Alternately, there is a Public Registration page available with the Community package, to allow visitors to create their own member accounts on your site. This is only available with the Community package, and cannot be added 'a la carte' to another site package.

If you have a Community package you can add the registration page to your site using the guide here. When you add this page you can set your audience in the page configuration -- all member accounts that sign up via this page will automatically be added to that audience.

How do I set a login redirect page?

You can configure this on a per-audience basis for member accounts on your site. Navigate to [Website Management > Members & Access > Member Permissions]. Click to edit your audience, and choose the login or logout redirect page from the drop down menu.

Note: Members will need to log in directly via a login page on your site to be directed to the page you set. See this guide for adding a login page.

Can I restrict portions of my website behind a password? How do I add an editor to my account?

You can do this by creating an Audience for your website, then creating Member Accounts within that Audience (these are the logins). The basic process is this:

1. Create an Audience — Creating an audience for your site will allow you to specify a group of users, and what those users can do and see on your site. Start in the Members & Access > Member Permissions tab of your site manager, and click to create a new audience. Give the audience a name and a description.
2. Give the Audience Permissions — After creating your audience you will specify what this audience can do/see on your website. The left hand column contains the pages of your site, and the top row contains the audiences that you've added to your site. Move the sliders in the grid to the appropriate permission levels for each audience. 
   Note: To prevent the public from viewing specific pages on your site, you'll need to set the Public Audience permissions for your pages to restricted.
3. Create one or more Logins — At this point, navigate to Member Accounts in order to create some logins that will have the permissions defined by your newly created audience. Add a login, and set this login to be in your new audience.

You're finished. Your new login will work at the login area on the front of your site, and these users will have the permissions you set up in the Audience Permissions page.

Creating a Member Account

You can create a member or editor account within your site, and assign this account to an audience. With this feature, this user will be able to log into your site with site permissions as defined by their audience.  Instructions for creating a new audience are available here.

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