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Joomla! Administrators

As a website administrator you might be concerned about the visual appearance of a website but will pass responsibility for making changes and improvements to a web designer. Similarly, when changes to functionality are required you will contract a web developer to do the necessary work. As a website administrator you are responsible for the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the website. Activities might include ensuring that the site is properly backed up; managing user access; possibly installing extensions. You will also have responsibility for maintaining the security of the website.

Joomla! Administrator's Manual

Note from the Doc Team: The intention is that the list of topics you see below should be goal-orientated and not a "feature list" for the Administrator back-end. The items should address real and common activities that an Administrator will need to perform from time to time. Please feel free to help us by adding or amending items already present if you think they can be improved.

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Resources

Managing a Joomla! Website

• Joomla! Installation
• Taking the website temporarily offline
• Changing the appearance of your site
• Giving the Front Page a different style from other pages
• Changing the style according to article section or category
• Logging in or out of the Administrator back-end
• Making your site Search Engine Friendly
• Entering search engine meta-data
• Moving the site among directories/sub-directories
  
  

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Content Management

Managing Content

• understanding sections, categories and articles
• creating a section and category hierarchy
• adding a new article
• adding a menu item which points to an Article
• managing the front page
• scheduling an Article to be available only between certain dates
• restricting access to an Article
• restricting access to "read more"
• restricting access to a Section
• restricting access to a Category
• removing email, print or PDF icons from all Articles
• removing author name, creation date or update date from all Articles
• moving an Article to the archive
• deleting an Article

Editing an Article

• adding an image to an article
• inserting a heading into an Article
• inserting a list into an Article
• inserting a table into an Article
• modifying a table in an Article
• inserting a link to another Article or content page into an Article
• inserting a link to another website into an Article
• removing a link from an Article
• splitting an Article into an introduction with a link to read more
• removing email, print or PDF icons from an Article
• removing author name, creation date or update date from an Article
• previewing an Article
• splitting a long Article into multiple linked pages

For more information, see Article Management.

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Menu Management

Managing Menus

• adding a new menu
• adding a new menu item
• changing the order of items in a menu
• moving a menu to a different position
• restricting access to a Menu
• restricting access to a Menu Item
• creating a submenu

For more information, see Menu Management.

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Joomla! Security Guide

Administrators should also be aware of security issues.

• Joomla Security Checklist
• Security and Performance FAQs
• Top 10 Stupidest Administrator Tricks
• Secure coding guidelines (for developers)

Joomla Security Forums

• Joomla Security Announcements
• Joomla 3.1 Security Forum
• Joomla 2.5 Security Forum
• Joomla 1.5 Security Forum
• Joomla 1.0 Security Forum

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User Management

Managing Users

• setting user registration policy
  • changing user registration settings
  • disabling user registration
  • allowing only manual user registration
  • allowing user registration
  • restricting user access to resources
  • enabling user's registration approval by admins   

• customising the Login Form module
  • changing the Login Form module settings
  • enabling the Login Form module
  • assigning the Login Form module to selected web pages
  • customising the information shown in the Login Form module
• adding a new user
• changing user groups
• resetting a user password
• listing a user on a contacts page
• dealing with a problem user
• sending an email to a user
• sending an email to a group of users
• sending a private message to a user
• reading a private message from a user

Managing Access

• Custom user groups
• ACL Tutorial for Joomla 1.5
• ACL Tutorial for Joomla 2.5  
• ACL Tutorial for Joomla 3.1

For more information, see User Management.

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Miscellaneous Management Tasks

Managing Contacts

• restricting access to a Contact
• restricting access to a Contact Category

Managing Newsfeeds

• restricting access to a Newsfeed Category

Managing Polls

• adding a new Poll

Managing Web Links

• restricting access to a Web Links Category

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Extension Management

Managing Extensions

• finding an extension
• installing an extension
• uninstalling an extension
• reinstalling deleted core extensions for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.0
• restricting access to a Module
• restricting access to a Plugin

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Tricks, Tips and Performance

• Speed up your site with caching: Cache

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Administrators Documentation Projects and Open Tasks

The Joomla! Documentation Wiki needs your help! Below is a list of pages/articles needed for this page. If you know of a topic which needs to be addressed, just add it to the List of Red Links below by using the following wikimarkup.

List of Red Links for needed Administrator Articles:

• none listed yet

Other Ideas and Suggestions

List your ideas and suggestions here:

• We need more ideas and suggestions for improving this page. -The Doc Team