Tips and Tricks - Tips and Tricks for Joomla
Short Tips and Tricks about how to manage small problems in Joomla

How to set your joomla website offline
If you want to set your Joomla site offline, you must follow a few simple steps. This option should be used only if you want to make minor modifications. For complex changes, we recommend to make changes on a test server.  So, how toset your joomla website offline ?
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How to control what is shown in Latest News Module

Latest News Module will show by default latest items from your website.You can control that from the module parameters. You can choose to show latest news from a particular section or multiple sections. Also, you can show your latest items from a single category or multiple categories.

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Modify This site is down for maintenance page

Question: I would like to modify the maintenance page. Where shoul I look?

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Are you trying to install the same CMS twice

Question: I am trying to install a component / module / mambot. I had it installed but uninstalled it. Now when I go to install it again I get the message "Are you trying to install the same CMS twice". Some of the files remains on the server and I dont have permissions to delete.

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My own image in rss

Question: I want to have my own logo in RSS, not Joomla default logo. Can I change it?

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Syndicate it's not working

Question: I have noticed that my rss, atom and oplm is not working and I receive a permision denied in a certain folder . What shoud I do now?

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Changing Joomla login greeting

Question: Instead of using the username, can it be changed to show first and last name?  If so, how?

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How to put more news on the front page?

Question: I wish to know how to put so many subjects like Joomla' s front page (instead of having only 3 news by default)

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How to Unlock Locked Categories

Question: I am using a vanilla 1.08 Joomla. I notice 2 categories are shown as locked, no matter who I sign in as. I have tried setting checked_out to zero in the back end, but it makes no difference. I can edit these categories as Admin, but I would like to remove the locks.

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How does an author submit a story?

Question: how does a user with tne auth level of "author" submit his content to an editor/publisher in Joomla?

Answer: Once logged in and selecting your news menu, an author will see a "New" tag above the selection of the news categories for your existing articles that will take them to the editor and allow them to write their news.

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Open an External Page inside Joomla!

Question: How do I open an External Page inside Joomla! ?

Answer: backend -> menu -> mainmenu -> new -> under miscellaneous select wrapper -> enter your url, add a name for the menu item -> select appropriate parameters on the right hand side->save