You can change the Joomla Read More Link text, but it can be difficult to find the correct place to change it. See our new Joomla Article: How to Change the Joomla Read More Link Text.

After a few years of reading about Mosets Tree Directory software component for Joomla, I finally paid $119 and gave it a try. Money well spent. Mosets is easy to set up and use, for the developer AND the client. (more…)

Joomla allows you to add an article index or table of contents to a Joomla article. For example, if you have long Joomla article, you might want to spit it into smaller pages. With Joomla, you can easily do this and automatically add a table of contents (TOC) so the user can navigate to different parts of the article quickly. Usually, you would want to split the articles at headings, but you can split them anywhere you want.

Watch Joomla Video: How to add a table of contents (article index) to a Joomla article

I added an article to my Joomla User’s Guide: How to add pagebreaks and a table of contents to a Joomla article. Joomla pagebreaks and Article Indexes are useful when you have long articles and you want to break them into smaller articles. Joomla’s Article Index function makes this a pretty easy tasks.

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How to add links to a Joomla article. This new Joomla video tutorial explains how to add links to a Joomla article. For example, you can link to another Joomla article; you can link to an external website, or you can link to Joomla contacts. Click here to view my new Joomla Video Tutorial on how to add links to a Joomla Article

I was working on a client’s Joomla website and noticed that the Articles list in the JCE Link editor had disappeared. As a result, I could not link to articles using the JCE link tool. If you have this problem, download the lastest version of the JCE editor and install it. The problem is probably caused by a change to the software on your web server and not from a bug in the JCE Joomla content editor.

You can restrict access to Joomla Articles. For example, you can create restrictions to menu links, such as links to Joomla menu items like forms, or components, or you can restrict access to category or section lists or blogs. In addition, you can restrict access to individual Joomla articles.

• Click here to see how to restrict access to Joomla menu items: Components, Sections, Categories, etc.
• Click here to see how to limit access to individual Joomla articles.

With Joomla, you can restrict front end access to individual menu items. For example, you can limit access to content linked to your menu, say, for Registered users only. Once you do this, a user will have to log in before they can access the link’s content. Click here to read how to restrict access to a Joomla menu item or Joomla Link.

Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development, by Joseph L. LeBlanc / PACKT Publishing, is a good introduction the Joomla Framework and to building Joomla Components, Joomla Modules, and JoomlaPlugins. (more…)

You can use Firebug, a plugin for Firefox browser, to fix css problems in Joomla, Wordpress, or any web page. There are a lot of questions on the Joomla forum regarding problems with css and Joomla templates, especially with IE6, IE7, or IE8. These problems can be hard to find and fix. Firebug makes finding css problems, or understanding css, much easier than looking at the page source alone. Check out my new Joomla video tutorial that explains how to use Firebug to determine how a web page is built with css.