Same issue here. Not sure how to get this working. Would like to have the sign-in/registration on the sidebar of my homepage, and set view permissions to only a few pages for unregistered guests.

From what I'm reading this is supposed to be pretty basic, but I'm also new to not just concrete5 but PHP, MYSQL and web development in general.

Just trying out my hand at this.

Any help would be appreciated.

I think the add-on "Login" might work for at least some of what you are trying to do.

I noticed that if you go into Dashboard site map you can see the user registration form by displaying system pages. Only thing is I do not know how to create a link to the page (which you could put in the side bare with the Login block).

Sorry I cannot give more detail, but I am new to this as well. I think our issues are kind of on the basic side so some of the higher end people tend not to reply.

the pages you're looking for exist in your version (5.3.2) but you do kinda have to dig them up. in 5.3.3 (releasing today!) there are more obvious links to this type of stuff.