What is an Audience?

An Audience represents a view of your site to a group of your site's members. Basically, it's what you want a particular group of your friends or colleagues to be able to do on your site. An Audience is given a number of permissions on your site. After you've set up permissions for an audience, you can then create logins so that people can gain access to the site resources you've designated.

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.

What is the difference between a limited editor and an editor?

A limited editor is a concept that applies to your Journal page only. A limited editor can create posts for your journal, but only modify posts they have created.  By default, limited editors cannot mark entries as published (they will be saved as drafts), however you can set publishing permissions to allow them to publish entries (see this screenshot).

A full editor must approve and publish posts made by a limited editor, and has access to create entries and modify page content anywhere they have editor permissions.

Note: Setting limited editor permissions for other pages besides the journal page is the same as setting the permissions to visible for that audience.

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 New Audience

You can create an audience for your site to define permissions for members to access your site. Instructions for creating a member account on your site are available here.

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