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JOOMLA USER MANUAL 1 SITE 7 CONTROL PANEL 7 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT ICONS QUICK T IPS 7 7 7 7 8 USER MANAGER 9 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT COLUMN HEADERS TOOLBAR QUICK T IPS 9 9 9 9 10 10 USER MANAGER - NEW/EDIT 11 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT USER DETAILS AND PARAMETERS TOOLBAR QUICK TIPS 11 11 11 11 12 13 MEDIA MANAGER 14 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT TOOLBAR FUNCTIONS QUICK T IPS 14 14 14 14 15 15 MENUS 16 MENU ITEM MANAGER 16 HOW TO ACCESS DES
MENU ITEM MANAGER - NEW/EDIT 18 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT MENU ITEM TYPES INTERNAL L INK - ARTICLES INTERNAL L INK - CONTACTS INTERNAL L INK - NEWS FEEDS INTERNAL L INK - POLLS INTERNAL L INK - SEARCH INTERNAL L INK - USER INTERNAL L INK - W EB LINKS INTERNAL L INK - W RAPPER EXTERNAL LINK SEPARATOR ALIAS MENU ITEM DETAILS AND PARAMETERS - SYSTEM QUICK T IPS TOOLBAR 18 18 18 18 18 37 40 43 44 45 49 52 53 53 53 53 56 56 MENU MANAGER – NEW/EDIT 57 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT COLUMN H
DETAILS TINYMCE EDITOR JCE EDITOR 65 65 66 BUTTONS 66 NO EDITOR IMAGE BUTTON TOOLBAR 70 70 71 CONTENT CATEGORY MANAGER 72 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT COLUMN HEADERS TOOLBAR LIST FILTERS QUICK T IPS 72 72 72 72 73 74 74 ARTICLE MANAGER 76 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT COLUMN HEADERS TOOLBAR LIST FILTERS GLOBAL CONFIGURATION QUICK T IPS 76 76 76 76 77 78 79 85 FRONT PAGE MANAGER 86 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT COLUMN HEADERS TOOLBAR LIST FILTERS QUICK T IPS 86 86 86 86
SECTION MANAGER 98 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT COLUMN HEADERS TOOLBAR LIST FILTERS QUICK T IPS 98 98 98 98 99 100 100 CONTENT CATEGORY MANAGER - NEW / EDIT 102 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT DETAILS TINYMCE EDITOR JCE EDITOR BUTTONS NO EDITOR IMAGE BUTTON TOOLBAR 102 102 102 103 103 104 104 108 108 109 CONTENT CATEGORY MANAGER 110 HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT COLUMN HEADERS TOOLBAR LIST FILTERS QUICK T IPS 110 110 110 110 111 112 112 ARTICLE MANAGER: NEW / EDIT 114 HOW T
COLUMN HEADERS TOOLBAR LIST FILTERS QUICK T IPS MODULES: SITE HOW TO ACCESS DESCRIPTION SCREENSHOT MODULE TYPES 127 128 129 130 131 131 131 131 131 COMPONENTS 133 RIPPLENET VIRTUEMART 133 JOOMFISH TRANSLATI ON 133 FOR MANUALS LOGIN TO USERS AREA ON WWW.RIPPLENET.CO.UK/INFO/CONTACT-US.
SITE Control Panel How to access You can access the Control Panel by logging into Joomla!'s back-end. After you log in, the first screen you will see is the Control Panel. If you want to access the Control Panel from another area in the back-end, simply go to Site > Control Panel. Description The Control Panel provides access to many default Joomla! functions and features. From the Control Panel, you can create and manage articles, sections, and categories.
Category Manager. As you might guess, this takes you to the Category Manager. You can create new categories, and publish/unpublish current ones. You can also change which section each category is published in. Front Page Manager. Similar to the Article Manager, this icon will take you to the Front Page Manager so that you can manage all of the articles published to the Front Page. Global Configuration. Perhaps one of the most important areas in your Joomla! back end is the Global Configuration.
User Manager How to access You can access the User Manager by clicking on the User Manager icon in the Control Panel, or by clicking on 'User Manager' in the 'Site' menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation. Description In this screen you have the ability to look at a list of your users and sort them in different ways. You can also edit and create users. Screenshot Column Headers In the table containing the users from your Joomla! site, you will see different columns.
· · · Editor: Can submit new articles or edit existing articles from the front end only. A Publisher or higher must approve. Publisher: Can submit, edit, or publish articles from the front end only. Manager, Administrator and Super Administrator: Can do all of the above plus can log into the back end with increasing rights. E-Mail. The e-mail address from the user is displayed here. Last visit. Here you can see the date on which the user last logged in. ID. Here you can see the ID number.
User Manager - New/Edit How to access You can access the User Manager New/Edit screen through the User Manager. Go to the User Manager by clicking on the User Manager icon in the Control Panel, or by clicking on 'User Manager' in the 'Site' menu in the back-end of your Joomla! installation. Click on the name of a user, select a user and click on the Edit button, or click on the New button in the User Manager to access the New/Edit screen.
Group. The user's Group. The following Groups are available: · · · · · Registered User: Normal visitors who register at the site. Can view Menu Items that have Access Level of Registered. Cannot edit or submit articles. Author: Can submit new articles for approval in the front end only. A Publisher or higher must approve. Cannot edit existing articles. Editor: Can submit new articles or edit existing articles from the front end only. A Publisher or higher must approve.
Cancel. Go back to the main screen of the Manager, without saving the modifications you made. Help. Open this Help Screen. Quick tips · · Name, Username and e-mail address are required If you did not fill in a particular language, editor, help site and/or time zone, the default settings from the Global Configuration, Language Manager and/or Template Manager are set.
Media Manager How to access You can access the Media Manager through the Control Panel, or by going to Site > Media Manager. Description The Media Manager is a very useful tool for uploading or deleting files in the /images/ directory on your web server. You can upload new files, delete existing ones, and create sub-directories. The Media Manager offers two views: thumbnails view and details view. The first (thumbnails view) will show a preview of the image files.
Help. Open this Help Screen. Functions Switching Views To alternate views between thumbnails and details simply select the view you want by clicking "Thumbnails View" or "Details View". Uploading Files If you would like to upload images or other files to the /images/ directory (or any of the sub directories) simply open the directory you want to upload in by clicking on it in the file navigation utility on the right side of the screen.
MENUS Menu Item Manager How to access Select Menus → [name of the menu] from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation. For example, if a Menu is called "Main Menu", select Menus → Main Menu. Or you can navigate to the Menu Manager and click on the icon in the Menu Items column. Description The Menu Item Manager lists the menu items contained in a menu created using the Menu Manager. Screenshot Column Headers · · · · · · #.
o o Registered. Only registered users have access Special. Only users with author status or higher have access You can change an item's Access Level by clicking on the icon in the column. · · Type. The Menu Item Type for this Menu Item. ItemID. Here you can see the ID number. You can not change this number. Toolbar At the top right you will see the toolbar: The functions are: · · · · · · · · · · Menus. Click on this button to go to the Menu Manager. Default.
Menu Item Manager - New/Edit How To Access To access the New Menu Creation wizard, navigate to the Menu Item Manager for the desired menu and press the New button on the toolbar. Description In this screen, you will select the Menu Item Type for this Menu Item. The Menu Item Type determines the type of page that will display when this menu choice is selected by the User. Screenshot If you install one or more Joomla! extensions, these extensions may add new Menu Item Types.
Each of these is described below. Archived Article List Used to show a list of Articles that have been Archived and can be searched by date. Archived articles are no longer published but are still stored on the site. Articles are Archived using the Article Manager screen. Note that Articles assigned to the "Uncategoried" Section will not show on the Archived Article List layout.
Press the Select button to select the desired Article for this layout. Article Submission Layout Allows users to submit an article. This only works for users who are members of the Authors, Publishers, or Editors groups. Members of the Registered or Public groups will not be able to submit articles even if this page is visible to them. If the page is visible to a user without the correct access level, they will get an error message when trying to load the page.
· Category. Category selected for this Layout. · Description. Hide or Show the Category and Section Descriptions on the Layout. If 'Show' is selected, the Description will display above the first Article, just below the Page Title. · Description Image. Hide or show the Description Image on the Layout.
· Category Order. Order of Categories in this Layout. The following options are available. No. Order by Primary Order Only: Articles are ordered only by the Primary Order, without regard to Category. o Title - Alphabetical: Categories are displayed in alphabetical order (A to Z) o Title - Reverse Alphabetical: Categories are displayed in reverse alphabetical order (Z to A) o Order: Categories are ordered according to the Order column entered in the Category Manager. o · Primary Order.
o · Order: Articles are ordered according to the Order column entered in the Article Manager. Multi Column Order. In multi-column blog layouts, whether to order articles Down the columns or Across the columns. o Down. Order articles going down the first column and then over to the next column, for example: article 1 1 (continued) article 2 article 4 article 3 article 5 o Across.
Parameters - Basic The Category List Layout has the following Basic Parameters, as shown below. · Category. Category selected for this Layout. · # Links. The number of Articles to display in the initial view. If a Category has more than this number of Articles, only this many links will show on the first page. In this case, the User can either change the "Display #" in the drop-down list box or use the "Next" link to show the next page of Articles. · Table Headings.
· Filter Field. Field to use for filtering Articles. Available options are Title, Author, and Hits. Parameters - Advanced The Category List Layout has the following Advanced Parameters, as shown below. · Primary Order. Order of Articles within a Category. The following options are available. Default: Same as Most Recent First. Articles are displayed starting with the most recent and ending with the oldest. o Oldest first: Articles are displayed starting with the oldest and ending with the most recent.
· o Show: Pagination links shown if needed. Display Select: Show or Hide the Display # drop-down list box. This allows you to limit the number of Articles listed on one page. · Show a Feed Link. Hide or Show an RSS Feed Link. Front Page Blog Layout Used to show all Articles that have been published to the Front Page, in a Blog Layout. A Blog Layout in Joomla! has 3 main areas: Leading, Intro, and Links. These are shown in the diagram below.
· # Intro. Determines the number of Articles to display after the leading Article. These Articles will display in the number of columns set in the Columns parameter below. If an Article has a "Read more..." break, only the text before the break (Intro text) will display, followed by a "Read more..." link. The order order in which to display the articles is determined by the Primary Order parameter in the Parameters - Advanced section below. · Columns. The number of columns to use in the Intro Text area.
o o o o o o o o o o · Default: Articles are ordered according to the Order column entered in the Front Page Manager. Oldest first: Articles are displayed starting with the oldest and ending with the most recent. Most recent first: Articles are displayed starting with the most recent and ending with the oldest.
o o o Auto: Pagination links shown if needed. Show: Pagination links shown if needed. Hide: Pagination links not shown. Note: In this case, Users will not be able to navigate to additional pages. · Pagination Results. Hide or Show the current page number and total pages (e.g., "Page 1 of 2") at the bottom of each page. · Show a Feed Link. Hide or Show an RSS Feed Link. Section Blog Layout Used to show Articles belonging to one Section, in a Blog Layout.
· Section. Section selected for this Layout. · Description. Hide or Show the Category and Section Descriptions on the Layout. If 'Show' is selected, the Description will display above the first Article, just below the Page Title. · Description Image. Hide or show the Description Image on the Layout.
· Category Order. Order of Categories in this Layout. The following options are available. No. Order by Primary Order Only: Articles are ordered only by the Primary Order, without regard to Category. o Title - Alphabetical: Categories are displayed in alphabetical order (A to Z) o Title - Reverse Alphabetical: Categories are displayed in reverse alphabetical order (Z to A) o Order: Categories are ordered according to the Order column entered in the Category Manager. o · Primary Order.
article 3 article 5 o Across. Order articles going across the columns and then back to the first column, for example: article 1 1 (continued) article 2 article 3 article 4 article 5 · Pagination. Hide or Show Pagination support. Pagination provides page links at the bottom of the page that allow the User to navigate to additional pages. These are needed if the Articles will not fit on one page. An example is shown below. The following options are available. o o o Auto: Pagination links shown if needed.
· Section. Section selected for this Layout. · Description. Hide or Show the Section Description. If 'Show' is selected, the Description will display at the top of the page, just under the Title. · Description Image. Hide or show the Description Image on the Layout. If 'Show' is selected, the Image for this Category or Section will display on the left or right of the Description, depending on the Image Position specified in the Category Edit Screen or the Section Edit Screen.
o · Primary Order. Order of Articles within a Category. The following options are available. o o o o o o o o o o · Order: Categories are ordered according to the Order column entered in the Category Manager. Default: Same as "Most recent first" Oldest first: Articles are displayed starting with the oldest and ending with the most recent. Most recent first: Articles are displayed starting with the most recent and ending with the oldest.
These values work with the values set in the Article Manager/Parameters and the values set in the Article Manager New/Edit to determine the action on the page. The parameters in all three places work together in a hierarchy, as follows. 1. The value from the Parameters - Advanced section of the Article Manager New/Edit is examined. If this value is set to Yes/Show or No/Hide, then that action is taken and no further checking is done. 2.
every User will see all Menu Items, whether or not they can access them. In this case, if an unauthorized user selects a Menu Item that they cannot access, a Login screen will display. · Show Article Title. (No/Yes/Use Global) Whether or not to show the title of the article. · Title Linkable. (No/Yes/Use Global) Whether or not the Title of the Article will be a hyperlink to the Article. · Show Intro Text. (Hide/Show/Use Global) Whether or not the Intro Text will display. · Section Name.
· Hits. (Hide/Show/Use Global) Whether or not to display the number of hits for an Article. · For each feed item show. (Hide/Show/Use Global) If set to Hide, only the intro text of each feed item will display. If set to Show, the full text of the feed item will display. Internal Link - Contacts When the Contacts link is selected, it expands to display the options shown below. Each of these is described below. Contact Category Layout Used to show all of the published Contacts in a given Category.
This allows the User to limit the number of items that will display per page. · Show a Feed Link. Hide or Show an RSS Feed Link. Standard Contact Layout Used to show the details of a single Contact. Parameters - Basic The Standard Contact Layout has the following Basic Parameters, as shown below. · Contact. Select the desired Contact from the drop-down list box. · Drop Down. Hide or Show a drop-down list box that allows a User to select a different Contact from the same Category.
These settings work with the settings in the Contacts: Global Configuration and the Contact Manager New/Edit . The setting in the Contact Manager - New/Edit takes priority. If the setting there is 'Use Global', then the setting here takes effect. If both of these settings are 'Use Global', then the setting in Contacts: Global Configuration takes effect. · Icons/Text. What to display next to the Contacts fields. Options are Icons/Text/None/Use Global. · Address Icon. Icon to use for Address.
· E-mail Icon. Icon to use for E-mail. Select an image file in the drop-down list box. These images are located in the 'images/M_images' folder. · Telephone Icon. Icon to use for Telephone. Select an image file in the drop-down list box. These images are located in the 'images/M_images' folder. · Mobile Icon. Icon to use for Mobile phone. Select an image file in the drop-down list box. These images are located in the 'images/M_images' folder. · Fax Icon. Icon to use for Fax.
Each of these is described below. Note that News Feed Categories are separate from Article Categories. News Feeds and News Feed Categories are entered by selecting Components → News Feeds. See News Feeds Manager and Category Manager for more information. Category List Layout Used to show a list of all News Feed Categories. Parameters - Basic The Category List Layout has the following Basic Parameters, as shown below. · Limit Box. Hide or Show the Limit Box, shown below.
· Image Align. Align the image on the left or right side of the page. Category Layout Used to show a list of News Feeds in a Category. Parameters - Basic The Category Layout has the following Basic Parameters, as shown below. · Category. Category selected for this Layout. · Limit Box. Hide or Show the Limit Box, shown below. This allows the User to limit the number of items that will display per page. Single Feed Layout Used to show a single News Feed.
These settings work with the settings in the News Feeds : Global Configuration. If a parameter here is set to 'Hide' or 'Show' then that action is taken. If a parameter here is set to 'Use Global', then the setting in News Feeds : Global Configuration is used. · Table Headings. Hide or Show column headings above the fields for the item. · Name Column. Hide or Show the Feed Name column. · # Articles Column. Hide or Show the number of Articles in the News Feed. · Link Column.
Parameters - Basic The Poll Layout has the following Basic Parameter, as shown below. · Poll. Select the desired Poll from the drop-down list box. Polls are entered using the Poll Manager . Internal Link - Search When the Search link is selected, it expands to display the Search layout. This is used to show the Search form and the Search results as shown below. Parameters - Basic The Search Layout has the following Basic Parameters, as shown below.
· · Use Search Areas. Whether or not to show the Search Areas check boxes. These check boxes allow a User to limit the search to any combination of Articles, Web Links, Contacts, Categories, Sections, and News Feeds. Show Created Date. Hide or Show the Date and Time the Article was created when displaying the Search results. Parameters - Component Search Layout has the following options under Parameters - Component: These setting work with the settings in the Search Statistics.
Each of these is described below. Default Logi n Layout Allows a user to login to the site, as shown below. Parameters - Basic The Default Login Layout has the following Basic Parameters, as shown below.
· · · · · · · · · · · · · · Show Login Page Title. Hide or Show the Title of this Page. Login Page Title. Title to display as the Page Title. If blank, the Title of the Menu Item will be used. Login Redirection URL. The URL of the Page that the User will be redirected to after a successful login. If blank, the Front Page will be used. Login JS Message. Hide or Show the JavaScript pop-up that indicates a successful login. Login Description. Hide or Show the Login Description Text, entered below.
· · Logout Image. Image for the Logout Page. This must be in the "images/stories" folder. Logout Image Align. Align image to the left or right of the page. Default Registration Layout Allows a user to register for the site, as shown below. This Layout has no unique Parameters. Default Remind Layout Allows the user to receive an e-mail with their username, as shown below. This Layout has no unique Parameters. Default Reset Layout Allows the user to reset their password, as shown below.
Default User Layout Shows a welcome message when the User enters the registered zone. This Layout has no unique Parameters. User Form Layout Allows a User to edit their account details, choose a new password, change the language for both the Backend and Front-end, and modify their time zone. Users with publishing permissions may choose a text editor. Users with administrator permissions may choose the Help Site they want to use in the back-end.
Each of these is described below. Web Link Category List Layout Shows a list of all the Web Link Categories. The User may click on a Category to see the links for that Category. Parameters - Basic The Web Link Category List Layout has the following Basic Parameters, as shown below. · Image. Image for this Page. Image must be located in the folder "images/stories". · Image Align. Align the image on the left or right side of the page. · Show a Feed Link. Hide or Show an RSS Feed Link.
This only works for users who are members of the Authors, Publishers, or Editors group. Members of the Registered or Public groups will not be able to submit articles even if this page is visible to them. If the page is visible to a user without the correct access level, they will get an error message when trying to load the page. Parameters - Component for Web Links All Web Links Layouts have the same options under Parameters - Component. An example of this section is shown below.
· Web Links Introduction. Optional text to display above the first Category on the Web Link Category List Layout. · Hits. Whether to Hide or Show the number of hits for each Web Link. · Link Descriptions. Hide or Show the Link Description for each Web Link. · Other Categories. (This doesn't appear to have any effect on any of the layouts.) · Table Headings. Hide or Show column headings above the fields for the item. · Target. How to open the link.
The Wrapper Layout has the following Basic Parameters, as shown below. · · · · Wrapper URL. URL for the web site to open inside the Wrapper IFrame. Scroll Bars. Whether or not to include horizontal and vertical scroll bars. Auto will add the scroll bars automatically when needed. Width. Width of the IFrame Window. You can enter in a number of pixels or enter in a percentage by including a "%" at the end of the number. For example, "550" means 550 pixels. "75%" means 75% of the page width. Height.
When any of the Menu Item Types listed above are selected, a details screen similar to the one below displays. The 'Menu Item Details' and the 'Parameters - System' parts are the same for each Menu Item. These are documented below. The 'Parameters - Component' part is different for each Internal Link group -- Articles, Contacts, News Feeds, Polls, Search, User, Web Links, and Wrapper. Therefore, these are documented in each group's section above.
· Published. Whether or not this item is published. Select Yes or No from the radio button group to set the Published state for this item. · Order. Indicates the order of this Menu Item in the Menu. The default Order is to add the Menu Item to the end of the Menu. This Menu Item will moved to the order position just after the Menu Item selected from the drop-down list. Note that the Order of Menu Items can also be changed in the Menu Item Manager. · Access Level. Who has access to this item.
o See the tutorial Using Class Suffixes in Joomla! 1.5 for more information. · Menu Image. Optional image to display to the left or right of the Menu Item. Image must be in the folder "images/stories". · SSL Enabled. Whether or not this page should use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and the Secure Site URL. This is used to encrypt the information sent between the browser and the web site. Quick Tips · Parameters for Articles and Contacts can be set at 3 different levels: 1.
Menu Manager – New/Edit How to access Go to the Menu Manager by clicking on the Menu Manager icon in the Control Panel, or by clicking on 'Menu Manager' in the 'Menus' menu. After that, click on the 'New' button in the toolbar, or select a menu and click on the 'Edit' button. Description You can add or modify menus in this screen. Screenshot Column Headers · · · · Unique Name. The identification name used by Joomla! to identify this menu. It must be unique. Spaces are not recommended. Title.
The functions are: · · · Save. Save it and return to the main screen of the Manager. Cancel. Go back to the main screen of the Manager, without saving the modifications you made. Help. Opens this Help Screen. Quick Tips · · · · Hover your mouse over the 'i' icon next to the input box, and extra information will be shown. If you forgot to create a module for this menu, you can do so by using the Module Manager, found by going to Extensions -> Module Manager. Click on 'New', and then on 'Menu'.
Menu Manager Description The Menu Manager controls how Joomla!'s menus will look and act. Screenshot Column Headers · Title. The name of the item. For a Menu Item, the Title will display in the Menu. For an Article, Section, or Category, the Title may optionally be displayed on the web page. This entry is required. You can open the item for editing by clicking on the Title. · Menu Type. The type column in the menu manager will actually be the Unique Name of the menu. · Menu Items.
· ID. The ID number. This is a unique identification number for this item assigned automatically by Joomla!. It is used to identify the item internally, for example in internal links. You can not change this number. Toolbar At the top right you will see the toolbar: The functions are: · · · · Copy. To copy a menu, select the radio button next to it and click the "Copy" button. You can than then enter in a new title and module name for the new menu.
Trash Manager How to Access Menu Items Select Menus --> Menu Trash from the drop-down menu in the Back-end of your Joomla! installation. Articles Select Content --> Article Trash from the drop-down menu in the Back-end of your Joomla! installation. Description These screens are holding areas where Menu Items and Articles are stored before they are permanently deleted from your Joomla! database. From here, you can either permanently delete the items or restore them to the site.
Column Headers Menu Items · #. An indexing number automatically assigned by Joomla! for ease of reference. · Checkbox. Check this box to select one or more items. To select all items, check the box in the column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click a toolbar button to take an action on the selected item or items. Many toolbar actions, such as Publish and Unpublish, can work with multiple items. Others, such as Edit, only work on one item at a time.
Quick Tips · · You can keep Menu Items and Articles in the Trash Manager as long as you like. Don't delete these items unless you are sure that you will not need them again. Articles in the Trash Manager are not the same as Archived Articles. Articles in the Trash Manager are not available for viewing or editing in the site. Archived Articles may be viewed using the Archive Layouts and may be edited.
CONTENT Content Category Manager - New / Edit How to Access Navigate to the Category Manager. To add a new Category, press the 'New' icon in the toolbar. To edit an existing Category, click on the Category title or click the Category's checkbox and then click on the Edit icon in the toolbar. Description This is where you can add a new Category to a Section or edit an existing Category. Categories are used to organize the Articles within a Section.
Details · Title. The Title for this item. This may or may not display on the page, depending on the parameter values you choose. · Alias. The internal name of the item. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla! will fill in a default value. The default value is the Title or Name in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces. You may enter the Alias manually. The Alias should consist of lowercase letters, and no blank spaces are allowed. Use a hyphen (-) instead.
o · · Styles. Caption and System Pagebreak styles can be set. Highlight the desired text and select the style. This will allow this text to be formatted based on CSS rules. o Format. Select pre-defined formats for Paragraph, Address, Heading1, and so on. o Font Family. Select the desired font. Second Row. o Unordered List, Ordered list, Outdent (move left) and Indent (indent right). o Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Re-do (Ctrl+Y). o Insert/Edit Link.
articles / components. Anchor Creates anchor links Bold Makes selected text bold. Shortcut Key - CTRL+B Bullet List Create a bullet (unordered) list Character Map Open a character map dialog for inserting miscellaneous characters. Cut, Copy, Paste Cut, copy and paste text and html with automatic Office cleanup. Includes Paste as Plain Text option.
browser Image Manager Extended Advanced image insert with file browser,image thumbnailing, resizing, rotating, image popups and tooltips. Optional plugin that requires a subscription to download.
Remove block and style formatting from a selection Search Replace Perforn a search and replace on the editor contents Spell Checker Run a spell check on the editor contents StrikeThrough Create a strikethough on a text selection Style Select Select list of Joomla! template css styles. Applied to selected block element or span.
No editor If 'No editor' is selected for a User, then a simple text editor displays. This allows you to enter in raw, unformatted HTML. You can use the toolbar 'Preview' button to preview how the HTML will display. Note that the 'No Editor' option can be useful if you are entering in 'boilerplate' or custom HTML, for example to create a PayPal link. TinyMCE automatically re-formats and strips some HTML when a file is saved. This can cause complex HTML to not work correctly.
o o o o o o o o Image URL. Click on one of the image thumbnails and the URL for the image will be entered for you. Align. Select the desired alignment (left or right) from the drop-down list box. Image Description. Enter a description for the image. Image Title. Enter a Title for this image. This displays when a User hovers the mouse on the image. Caption. If checked, image title will display as a caption below the image. Browse files.
Content Category Manager How to Access Select Content --> Category Manager from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation. Or click on the "Category Manager" icon in the Control Panel. Description The Category Manager is where you can edit existing Categories and create new ones. Articles in Joomla! are organized into Sections and Categories. Categories are the second level of organization underneath Sections. Every Section contains one or more Categories.
· Published. Whether the item has been published or not. You can change the Published state by clicking on the icon in this column. · Order. The order to display items. If the list is sorted by this column, you can change the order by clicking the arrows or by entering the sequential order and clicking 'Save Order'. Note that the display order on a page is set in the Parameters - Advanced section for each Menu Item.
To complete the move, select the desired "Move to" location and press the Move button. To cancel the operation, press Cancel. · Copy. Select one or more items and click this button to copy them. A new screen will display showing the possible "Copy to" locations on the left and the list of item(s) being copied on the right. To complete the copy, select the desired "Copy to" location and press the Copy button. To cancel the operation, press Cancel. · Delete.
· · · Click on the Title of a Category to edit it. Click on the green check mark or the red X in the Published column to toggle between Published and Unpublished. Click on the Column Headers to sort the Categories by that column. Click a second time to sort descending (Z to A).
Article Manager How to access Click the Article Manager icon in the Control Panel, or click 'Article Manager' in the 'Content' menu in the Back-end of your Joomla! installation. Description The Article Manager is the place in the back-end where you can add and manage all of the articles for your web site. Screenshot Column Headers Click on the column heading to sort the list by that column's value. · #. An indexing number automatically assigned by Joomla! for ease of reference. · Checkbox.
· Published. The Article's Published status. The possible values are shown under the main window, as shown below: You can toggle the Published state on and off by clicking on the icon in this column. A status of Pending means that an Article's Start Publishing Date is in the future. You can hover on the icon to see an Article's Start and Stop Publishing dates. · Front Page. Whether or not the Article will show on the Front Page.
At the top right you will see the following toolbar: The functions are: · Unarchive. To remove one or more Articles from Archived status, select them and press this button. Archived Articles are retained on the site and are available for viewing on Menu Items with a Type of Archive Layout. Note that when an Article is unarchived, its status is changed to 'Not Published'. Also, if an Article does not have a status of 'Archived', this button has no effect. · Archive.
· Filter. In the upper left corner just above the column headings is a Filter field and two buttons, as shown below: If you have a large number of items on the list, you can use this filter to find the desired item(s) quickly. Enter either part of the title or an ID number and press 'Go' to display the matching items. You can enter in whole words or part of a word. For example, "ooml" will match all titles with the word "Joomla!" in them.
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Column Headers · Show Unauthorized Links. (No/Yes). Whether or not to show links to Articles that the User is not authorized to access. If set to No, Users will only see links to Articles that they may access. If set to Yes, every User will see all Article links, whether or not they can access them. In this case, a link to the User Login page will display below the Article Title. · Show Article Title. (No/Yes) Whether or not to show the title of the article. · Title Linkable.
· E-mail Icon. (Hide/Show) Whether or not to display a button to allow a link to the Article to be emailed. This displays a form that allows the user to send an e-mail with a link to the current Article. · Hits. The number of hits for an Article. A hit is the number of times a page has been viewed. Hits can be reset to 0 in the Article Manager - New/Edit screen. · For each feed item show. (Intro Text/Full Text) If set to Intro Text, only the intro text of each feed item will show.
o · · No HTML means allow no HTML markup at all. All HTML is removed from an Article when it is saved. Filter Tags. The extra tags to exclude in a Black List, or the only tags to allow in a White List. Filter Attributes. The extra tag attributes to exclude in a Black List, or the only tag attributes to allow in a White List. Default Filters The default filter method in Joomla! is 'Black List'.
In this example, no filtering will be done for members of the Editor, Publisher, Manager, Administrator, and Super Administrator groups. Example Two: To apply the default black-list filtering to all groups except for Admin and Super Admin, use the following settings: · · · In the Filter groups box, select all groups except Admin and Super Admin. Select Black List as the Filter type. Leave the Filter Tags and Filter attributes fields empty.
Developers Notes The filtering parameters in config.xml have the new parameter menu="hide". This hides the filters from the Menu Item's Component pane as you do not want cascading overrides to occur at the menu item level. Quick Tips · In Joomla! versions prior to 1.5, there were separate processes for creating a Static Content Item and normal Content Items. Both processes are now done just by adding Articles.
Front Page Manager How to Access Select Content --> Front Page Manager from the drop-down menu in the back-end of your Joomla! installation. You can also click on the "Front Page Manager" icon in the Control Panel. Description The Front Page Manager is the place where you control which Articles are displayed on the Front Page and in what order they are displayed. The Front Page is often the Home page of a web site, but it can be any page in the site.
You can toggle the Published state on and off by clicking on the icon in this column. A status of Pending means that an Article's Start Publishing Date is in the future. You can hover on the icon to see an Article's Start and Stop Publishing dates. · Order. The order in which to display the Articles on the Front Page. If the list is sorted by this column, you can change the order by clicking the arrows or by entering the sequential order and clicking 'Save Order'.
of Archive Layout. They can not be published to other pages while set to Archived status. Note that Articles assigned to the "Uncategorized" Section will not show on the Archived Article List layout. · Publish. To publish one or more items, select them and click on this button. · · Unpublish. To unpublish one or more items, select them and click on this button. Remove. To remove one or more Articles from the Front Page, click on the checkbox for each Article and press the Remove button.
· · Only the Articles that have already been added to the Front Page will display on this screen. Articles can be added to the Front Page in the Article Manager or when an Article is added or edited in Article Manager - New/Edit. You can control the number of columns, number of articles, and other features of the Front Page layout in the Menu Item Manager - New/Edit - Front Page Blog Layout.
Section Manager: New / Edit How to Access Navigate to the Section Manager. To add a new Section, press the "New" icon in the toolbar. To edit an existing Section, click on the Section's Title, or click the Section's checkbox, and click on the "Edit" icon in the toolbar. Description There is where you can add a new Section or edit an existing Section. Sections in Joomla! are used to organize Articles. Sections are the top-level of organization, and each Section contains one or more Categories.
Details · Scope. No entry allowed. Displays the scope of this screen, which is "Content". · Title. The Title for this item. This may or may not display on the page, depending on the parameter values you choose. · Alias. The internal name of the item. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla! will fill in a default value. The default value is the Title or Name in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces. You may enter the Alias manually.
o · · Buttons in the upper left allow you to make text bold, italic, underlined, or strikethrough. Next to that are buttons for align left, right, center, and full. o Styles. Caption and System Pagebreak styles can be set. Highlight the desired text and select the style. This will allow this text to be formatted based on CSS rules. o Format. Select pre-defined formats for Paragraph, Address, Heading1, and so on. o Font Family. Select the desired font. Second Row.
Advanced Link Advanced Link editor. Create and edit links to files, external sites, email addresses and internal Joomla! articles / components. Anchor Creates anchor links Bold Makes selected text bold. Shortcut Key - CTRL+B Bullet List Create a bullet (unordered) list Character Map Open a character map dialog for inserting miscellaneous characters. Cut, Copy, Paste Cut, copy and paste text and html with automatic Office cleanup. Includes Paste as Plain Text option.
HTML Basic HTML editor Image Manager Advanced image insert with file browser Image Manager Extended Advanced image insert with file browser,image thumbnailing, resizing, rotating, image popups and tooltips. Optional plugin that requires a subscription to download.
Redo Redo the last action Remove Format Remove block and style formatting from a selection Search Replace Perforn a search and replace on the editor contents Spell Checker Run a spell check on the editor contents StrikeThrough Create a strikethough on a text selection Style Select Select list of Joomla! template css styles. Applied to selected block element or span.
No editor If 'No editor' is selected for a User, then a simple text editor displays. This allows you to enter in raw, unformatted HTML. You can use the toolbar 'Preview' button to preview how the HTML will display. Note that the 'No Editor' option can be useful if you are entering in 'boilerplate' or custom HTML, for example to create a PayPal link. TinyMCE automatically re-formats and strips some HTML when a file is saved. This can cause complex HTML to not work correctly.
o o o o o o o o Image URL. Click on one of the image thumbnails and the URL for the image will be entered for you. Align. Select the desired alignment (left or right) from the drop-down list box. Image Description. Enter a description for the image. Image Title. Enter a Title for this image. This displays when a User hovers the mouse on the image. Caption. If checked, image title will display as a caption below the image. Browse files.
Section Manager How to Access Click on the Section Manager icon in the Control Panel or click on 'Section Manager' in the 'Content' menu in the back-end of your Joomla! installation. Description Articles in Joomla! are organized into Sections and Categories. Sections are the top-level of organization and Categories go under Sections. The Section Manager is the place where you can edit existing Sections and create new ones.
Click on the column heading to sort the list by that column's value. · #. An indexing number automatically assigned by Joomla! for ease of reference. · Checkbox. Check this box to select one or more items. To select all items, check the box in the column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click a toolbar button to take an action on the selected item or items. Many toolbar actions, such as Publish and Unpublish, can work with multiple items.
The functions are: · Publish. To publish one or more items, select them and click on this button. · Unpublish. To unpublish one or more items, select them and click on this button. · Copy. Select one or more items and click this button to copy them. A new screen will display showing the possible "Copy to" locations on the left and the list of item(s) being copied on the right. To complete the copy, select the desired "Copy to" location and press the Copy button. To cancel the operation, press Cancel.
· Click on the Column Headers to sort the Sections by that column. Click a second time to sort descending (Z to A).
Content Category Manager - New / Edit How to Access Navigate to the Category Manager. To add a new Category, press the 'New' icon in the toolbar. To edit an existing Category, click on the Category title or click the Category's checkbox and then click on the Edit icon in the toolbar. Description This is where you can add a new Category to a Section or edit an existing Category. Categories are used to organize the Articles within a Section.
Details · Title. The Title for this item. This may or may not display on the page, depending on the parameter values you choose. · Alias. The internal name of the item. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla! will fill in a default value. The default value is the Title or Name in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces. You may enter the Alias manually. The Alias should consist of lowercase letters, and no blank spaces are allowed. Use a hyphen (-) instead.
o · · Styles. Caption and System Pagebreak styles can be set. Highlight the desired text and select the style. This will allow this text to be formatted based on CSS rules. o Format. Select pre-defined formats for Paragraph, Address, Heading1, and so on. o Font Family. Select the desired font. Second Row. o Unordered List, Ordered list, Outdent (move left) and Indent (indent right). o Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Re-do (Ctrl+Y). o Insert/Edit Link.
addresses and internal Joomla! articles / components. Anchor Creates anchor links Bold Makes selected text bold. Shortcut Key - CTRL+B Bullet List Create a bullet (unordered) list Character Map Open a character map dialog for inserting miscellaneous characters. Cut, Copy, Paste Cut, copy and paste text and html with automatic Office cleanup. Includes Paste as Plain Text option.
Advanced image insert with file browser Image Manager Extended Advanced image insert with file browser,image thumbnailing, resizing, rotating, image popups and tooltips. Optional plugin that requires a subscription to download.
Remove Format Remove block and style formatting from a selection Search Replace Perforn a search and replace on the editor contents Spell Checker Run a spell check on the editor contents StrikeThrough Create a strikethough on a text selection Style Select Select list of Joomla! template css styles. Applied to selected block element or span.
No editor If 'No editor' is selected for a User, then a simple text editor displays. This allows you to enter in raw, unformatted HTML. You can use the toolbar 'Preview' button to preview how the HTML will display. Note that the 'No Editor' option can be useful if you are entering in 'boilerplate' or custom HTML, for example to create a PayPal link. TinyMCE automatically re-formats and strips some HTML when a file is saved. This can cause complex HTML to not work correctly.
o o o o o o o o o o Cancel. Cancel the operation and close the popup window. Thumbnail Browse Area. Click on an image thumbnail to select the image. Click on a folder icon to navigate to that subdirectory. Image URL. Click on one of the image thumbnails and the URL for the image will be entered for you. Align. Select the desired alignment (left or right) from the drop-down list box. Image Description. Enter a description for the image. Image Title. Enter a Title for this image.
Content Category Manager How to Access Select Content --> Category Manager from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation. Or click on the "Category Manager" icon in the Control Panel. Description The Category Manager is where you can edit existing Categories and create new ones. Articles in Joomla! are organized into Sections and Categories. Categories are the second level of organization underneath Sections. Every Section contains one or more Categories.
· Published. Whether the item has been published or not. You can change the Published state by clicking on the icon in this column. · Order. The order to display items. If the list is sorted by this column, you can change the order by clicking the arrows or by entering the sequential order and clicking 'Save Order'. Note that the display order on a page is set in the Parameters - Advanced section for each Menu Item.
To complete the move, select the desired "Move to" location and press the Move button. To cancel the operation, press Cancel. · Copy. Select one or more items and click this button to copy them. A new screen will display showing the possible "Copy to" locations on the left and the list of item(s) being copied on the right. To complete the copy, select the desired "Copy to" location and press the Copy button. To cancel the operation, press Cancel. · Delete.
· · · Click on the Title of a Category to edit it. Click on the green check mark or the red X in the Published column to toggle between Published and Unpublished. Click on the Column Headers to sort the Categories by that column. Click a second time to sort descending (Z to A).
Article Manager: New / Edit How to Access You can access the Article:[New] page either by pressing the 'Add New Article' button on the Control Panel or by clicking the 'New' button on the Article Manager. You can access the Article:[Edit] page from the Article Manager either by clicking on an Article's Title or by clicking the Article's check box and then clicking the 'Edit' button. Both screens have the same functionality. Description This is the back-end screen where you can add and edit Articles.
· Title. The Title for this item. This may or may not display on the page, depending on the parameter values you choose. · Published. Whether or not this item is published. Select Yes or No from the radio button group to set the Published state for this item. · Alias. The internal name of the item. Normally, you can leave this blank and Joomla! will fill in a default value. The default value is the Title or Name in lower case and with dashes instead of spaces. You may enter the Alias manually.
o o o o o o o o o o o o o · Directory. The current directory on the host server. This is the 'images/stories' directory under your Joomla! home directory. Use the drop-down list box to select a subdirectory. Up. Navigate to the parent directory. Note that the top directory for this function is 'images/stories'. You can not navigate to a higher directory. Insert. Insert the selected image. The insert point will be the current cursor position. You will see the image display inside the edit window. Cancel.
Page Title. Enter the title to display for the new page (for example, 'Page 2'). Table of Contents Alias. Optional field to display in the table of contents for this page. In a multi-page article, Joomla! displays a 'table of contents' for the page that allows the user to select any page. If this field is blank, the Page Title will be used. If you want a different title in the table of contents, enter it here. o Insert Pagebreak. Click this button to insert the pagebreak with the entered fields.
o · Edit HTML Source. A popup displays showing the HTML source code, allowing you to edit the HTML source code. o Find and Find/Replace. o Insert Date, Time, or Emotions. o Insert Embedded Media. To insert embedded media (such as Flash), place the cursor at the desired location and press this button. A popup dialog will display that allows you to enter the Type, File or URL, and other information about the media. o Direction Left to Right and Direction Right to Left.
Cut, Copy, Paste Cut, copy and paste text and html with automatic Office cleanup. Includes Paste as Plain Text option. Code Cleanup Directionality Set the text direction on a selection Emotions Insert emoticons File Manager Upload and insert links to various file types with optional file icon, date and modified time values. Optional plugin that requires a subscription to download.
Justify Center Center Align the text selection or element Justify Full Justify the text selection Justify Left Left Align the text selection or element Justify Right Right Align the text selection or element Layers Create and position div layers Media Manager Upload and insert media files such as flash, quicktime, windows media and flash video. Optional plugin that requires a subscription to download.
Select list of Joomla! template css styles. Applied to selected block element or span. Styles Edit an elements styles Subscript Position text selection below the baseline Superscript Position text selection above the baseline Tables Create and edit tables Template Manager Create and insert reusable code snippets.Optional plugin that requires a subscription to download.
If this happens, you can temporarily change the editor to 'No Editor' and create the desired content. Note that if you wish to edit this content in the future, you should be careful to change your editor to 'No Editor'. Otherwise, if you open and save the content with TinyMCE, you may lose your custom HTML. Parameters - Article This section allows you to enter parameters for this Article, as shown below: These entries are optional. Joomla! automatically creates default entries for these values. · Author.
These parameters allow you to override the parameters set in the Parameter/Global Configuration setup in the Article Manager and the Parmeters - Component settings in the Menu Item Manager. A value of 'Use Global' means that either the setting from the Menu Item or the setting from the Global Configuration will control the action. A setting other than 'Use Global' will always control the action and override settings from these other areas. The setting here takes top priority.
· Category Title Linkable. (No/Yes/Use Global) Whether or not the Title of the Category will be a hyperlink to the Category page. · Article Rating. (Use Global/Hide/Show). Hide or show the Article Rating. · Author Name. (Hide/Show/Use Global) Whether or not to display the Author Name. · Created Date and Time. (Hide/Show/Use Global) Whether or not to display the date and time the Article was created. · Modified Date and Time.
· Metadata Description. Optional Metadata Description for this Article. · Metadata Keywords. Optional entry for keywords. Must be entered separated by commas (for example, "cats, dogs, pets") and may be entered in upper or lower case. (For example, "CATS" will match "cats" or "Cats"). Keywords can be used in several ways: 1. To help Search Engines and other systems classify the content of the Article. 2. In combination with Banner tags, to display specific Banners based on the Article content.
· Save. Save it and return to the main screen of the Manager. · Apply. Save it, but stay in the same screen. If you have been working on a screen for a long time and don't want to risk losing your work, pressing Apply saves your work and lets you continue working. If, for example, you lost your Internet connection, your work will be saved up this point. · Close. Return to the previous screen without saving your work. If you press Close while adding a new item, this new item will not be created.
Module Manager How to Access Select Extensions --> Module Manager from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation. Or click the "Site" link from the Module Manager / Administrator screen. Description The Module Manager is where you add and edit Joomla! Modules. In Joomla!, Modules are used to display content and/or media around the main content. Module Facts: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. All Joomla! websites require at least 1 Menu Module All Other Module Types are Optional.
· #. An indexing number automatically assigned by Joomla! for ease of reference. · Checkbox. Check this box to select one or more items. To select all items, check the box in the column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click a toolbar button to take an action on the selected item or items. Many toolbar actions, such as Publish and Unpublish, can work with multiple items. Others, such as Edit, only work on one item at a time.
· Enable. To enable one or more items, select them using the Checkbox and press this button. You may also toggle between Enabled and Disabled by clicking on the icon in the "Enabled" column. · Disable. To disable one or more items, select them using the Checkbox and press this button. You may also toggle between Enabled and Disabled by clicking on the icon in the "Enabled" column. · Copy. To copy one or more Modules, select them using the Checkbox and press this button.
In the upper right area, above the column headings, are 2 drop-down list boxes as shown below: The selections may be combined. Only items matching both selections will display in the list. · Select Template. Select the Template from the drop-down list box of available Templates. Only Templates that are enabled for this site will display. · Select Position. Select a Position from the drop-down list box of available Positions. · Select Type.
Modules: Site How to access Navigate to the Module Manager. To create a new Module, press the "New" button on the toolbar. To edit an existing Module, click on the Module Name or click on the Module's checkbox and press the Edit button on the toolbar. Description This is where you will add new Modules or edit existing Modules for the front end of your Joomla! web site. When you install Joomla!, 20 built-in Modules are available for use in the front end of your web site.
When the New button is pressed, the Module:[New] screen displays all of the Module Types available for new new Module. You can select the desired type either by clicking on the Module Name or by clicking on the Module's radio button and pressing the Next button on the toolbar. Note that you can cancel this action by pressing the Cancel button on the toolbar. A standard Joomla! installation includes different Module Types. Each has it's own function and it's own Parameters, some are described below.
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