What does "Access level" mean for a section

The “Access level” field in the section window controls two things at once: whether the item is visible in the menu and whether the page opens.

• Everyone — an ordinary public page. Only such pages get into the sitemap and search results.
• Registered users only — a guest is redirected to the login page, and after logging in is returned to this page.
• Guests only — for pages like login and registration: a logged-in user does not need them.
• Administrators only — service sections.
• Nobody. Can be visited. — there is no item in the menu, but the page opens via a direct link. This is how service pages such as password recovery live, as well as pages that you link to yourself.
• Nobody. Block access. — the page is neither in the menu nor reachable by link: the visitor gets a 404.

Access for user groups. If user groups are set up on the site (the “Users” tab in general settings), then with the value “Registered users only” a list of groups appears under the field. The section is available to a checked group together with its subgroups. With no checkboxes ticked, the section is visible to all registered users.

An administrator sees any section regardless of the access level — otherwise service pages could not be edited.

If it didn’t work

• You deleted a system section, but it remained. System sections are not deleted but hidden: they are set to “Nobody. Can be visited.”. This is intentional — the engine’s operation depends on them.
• The page is closed but still appears in search. The search engine needs time to crawl the site again. The section leaves the sitemap immediately.
• A user has logged in but gets a 404. They do not belong to any of the checked groups. Assign them to a group on the “Users” tab.