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.
Once you have Joomla installed and a default template assigned, you will probably want to add or remove some modules. Trouble is, unless you know how to read the code in the template file, it’s difficult to figure out what modules are in what position.
Click here to see two easy methods for finding the module positions in your Joomla template.
New Joomla Video Tutorial: How to Insert a YouTube Video
Joomla 1.5 makes it pretty easy to turn on SSL for your whole site, for individual pages, or for administrators only. See our new Joomla tutorial: Turn on SSL for Joomla Website.
It sounds simple, but adding a link to an image in an article seems to confuse some users. See our new Joomla Tutorial: How to add a link to an image in a Joomla article.
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.
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.
Many clients ask me how to create a link within a Joomla article; for example, if you have a very long document and you want to create navigation links (at the top of the document) that take your directly to a heading or paragraph in the document. Watch this video tutorial to see how to create links within a Joomla article/document.
Joomla is a GREAT Content Management System (CMS), but it can be daunting for a beginner to learn. Instead of floundering or asking a lot of beginner questions, make sure that you read the Joomla beginner’s documentation. Continue reading
