Users

Creating Your First User

Your first User account is normally created during installation, but you can also create one by hand.

Users are represented by YAML files inside site/users. The filename becomes the username, and you can hold any “profile” data you’d like inside, as valid YAML. Here’s an example.

first_name: Joe
last_name: Cool
email: snoopy@blockhead.com
super: true
password: YourPasswordGoesHere

Two important things to note here: the super, and the password.

The Password

Creating a user by hand will involve a plain text password. Have no fear, however! As soon as you log in, it will be encrypted and hashed and as secure as any DB driven auth system you’ve ever seen.

Login

You can log in by visiting /cp. By default, users will log in with username and password, but this can be changed to email and password in site/settings/users.yaml or in the Control Panel. Any users created before this change will need to have their filename updated in site/users/ to reflect their email address instead of their username.

Custom Profile Fields

Want a more robust profile for your users that you can manage with the Control Panel? Need to add a phone number, current address, favorite character from The Office?

Create a new fieldset at /site/settings/fieldsets/user.yaml and add all the fields you need. Remember to add in all the default fields or they will disappear in the Control Panel for all your users. Here’s an example.

hide: true
fields:
  username:
    type: text
    display: Username
    width: 50
  roles:
    type: user_roles
    width: 50
  email:
    type: text
    display: Email address
  first_name:
    type: text
    display: First Name
    width: 50
  last_name:
    type: text
    display: Last Name
    width: 50
  phone-number:
    type: text
    display: Phone Number
    width: 50
  content:
    type: textarea
    display: Biography

Permissions

Statamic has a whole Permissions and Roles system letting you create and configure some pretty granular controls over who can see and do what in the Control Panel.

You can bypass all that by setting super: true. You’ll have access to everything. And as the developer of a new Statamic site, that’s probably what you want.

Users without a role, or super status will not have access to the Control Panel at all. You can use that state to create member areas on the front-end of your site. We have a whole bunch of Tags to facilite that workflow.