For today’s quick tip or reminder, we are looking at Joomla’s Users component. Specifically, the user activation. Joomla allows you to choose between automatic activation, an activation on the user end or activation that requires administrator approval. While the first two options are easy if you don’t want to get involved, this could lead to frustrations as you’re overrun by spammers who hammer your site(s) and access “restricted” areas for your site. E.G a user that can activate itself could easily start to spam the living bejeezus out of your forums or comment compoonents (if you have those installed). That’s … Continue reading Joomla’s User Activation by Admins and System Messages