Initial user experience
The initial user experience includes:
- Default friendships
- Moderation settings
- Welcome message settings.
To confirm or modify these settings, navigate to Pencil tool > Administration > Membership > New User Experience.
- New default friendships - Enter the username(s) of people you want the user to be friends with automatically, such as the Community Manager or someone in charge of guiding new users.
- Moderation settings - by default, new users are not moderated. You may want to make their initial posts moderated, and then review their status after a period.
- Default (or custom) welcome message from - This could be from an admin.
- Welcome message subject - This is the title of the welcome message.
- Welcome message body - The default message contains 3 variables linking to the user's username, user's edit page, and profile.
- Welcome message for invitation-only site
Note: For these settings to work, you must have the Welcome Message Create plugin (Pencil tool > Administration > Extensions) enabled.
b. Authentication options
- Forms?