I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here because this just seems so wrong.

I've a Joomla site with K2 (a J! site without K2 is no good!!)

When people register on the site, K2 automatically generates a user page for them.

I have several K2 users that are authors - I want all their contact details etc to be publicly available.

However, I DO NOT want the contact details of "normal" users available!!!!

Surely there's a simple, obvious way to do this?

Hello Manuel,

Currently there is only an on/off switch under the component's advanced parameters (Enable K2 User Profile).

This is what I used to get around this. It's not a perfect solution - but I just redirect them to my home page. I had users registering with usernames like 'wedding-photos' etc. and posting spammy back-links in their profiles.

In the k2 default template - components/com_k2/templates/default/user.php - add this below the jexec or die:

[code]
header( 'Location: www.yourhomepage.com' ) ;
[code]

Then, you'll need a new k2 template folder - and in that folder's user.php file, you don't want to have the header change. For each author, you'll have to create a new menu item, and in the menu item parameters, assign the k2 template without the redirect at the top.

This will make the user pages for newly registered users inaccessible and allow you to control which ones can be accessed.

And actually a better solution would be to transfer them to a 404 page. I'm changing my own solution now.