Joomla 1.6 / 1.7 is full of great new features. One of these is the ability to assign a custom CSS class to an individual menu link. This allows you to create custom styling for individual menu links.
Click here to find out how to create a custom CSS class for indivdual Joomla 1.7 menu links.
You can easily speed up a Joomla 1.5 or 1.6 Website by turning on the cache function. Click here to see how to speed up a Joomla Website using Cache.
Joomla has an great feature with an annoying BAD habit: it’s called the URL Alias. The URL Alias allows you to enter a search engine friendly URL of your choice for a menu link. For example, for your About Us page, you can enter The best widgets on the planet in the menu Alias field and your URL for the About Us page will look like this:
http://bestwidgets.com/the-best-widgets-on-the-planet.
No doubt, this is a great feature, but the developers left out an important setting: No Alias for the Home / Default link; for example, if you click on the Home link on your Joomla site, your URL looks like this: http://bestwidgets.com/home. However, it should look like this: http://bestwidgets.com. Period.
Click here to find out how to remove the Joomla Home Alias
If you want to view Joomla template positions in a Joomla 1.5 template, you can enter the following code: mydomain.com/index.php?tp=1. Unfortunately, this does not work in Joomla 1.6 unless you turn on the Preview Template Positions option. Go to Extensions > Template Manager > Options and enable Preview Template Positions.
A client asked me to install a module that would show X number of his Tweets on his Joomla site. After trying several Joomla Twitter modules and finding all were lacking in some way, I decided to go straight to the source: Twitter Widgets. Within 5 minutes, I had my perfect Twitter module.
How to add your Tweets to your Joomla Website.
By default, the Joomla User Group Author has editing access only to articles in which they are the Author. As a result, it is very simple to restrict front end article editing to specific articles by assigning a Joomla Author user to the article.
For example, say you have a user who needs to have editing access to a specific article, but you don’t want that person to be able to edit any other articles.
Akeeba Backup makes it easy to backup your Joomla website. If your site gets hacked or corrupted, having a complete backup makes it easy to restore your website. Without a backup, you might be forced to completely rebuild your website if it gets hacked.
Click here for details on how to backup your Joomla website using Akeeba Backup.
The Global Meta Description and Keyword setting in Joomla provide important information that helps search engines such as Google rank and catalog your site.
When you’re working with a Joomla website, it’s very handly to be able to see the module positons on a live page. There are two ways to do this:
From the Joomla Administrator menu, select Extensions > Template Manager > your_template > Preview
Joomla displays your Home page with the module positions.
In a browser, enter your url + index.php?tp=1; for example, http://writenowdesign.com/index.php?tp=1
Joomla displays your Home page with the module positions.
Adding a Facebook Like button to your Joomla website is easy…if you can find the right information.