Portal: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

The intention is that the list of topics you see below should be task-orientated and not a "feature list" for Joomla! website administration. These items should address real and common activities that an Administrator will need to perform.

Common Tasks and Questions

• Logging into the control panel
• How do you recover or reset your admin password?
• Detailed Information on Global Configuration Settings
• Cannot save Global Configuration changes
• Taking the website temporarily offline
• How do you choose secure extensions?
• What is a vulnerable extension?
• Making your site Search Engine Friendly

Article Management

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Content Management in Joomla!

This page contains many links to selected documentation concerning Article Management for and

This page is only for Article Management

Recommended Reading

Managing Content

• Adding a new article
• Adding a menu item which points to an Article
• Adding a menu link in 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"
• Removing email, print or PDF icons from 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 website into an Article
• Removing a link from an Article
• Splitting an Article into an introduction with a link to read more
• Removing author name, creation date or update date from an Article
• Previewing an Article
• Splitting a long Article into multiple linked pages

For more articles and information:

FAQs

List of all articles belonging to the categories "FAQ" AND "Article Management".

• Add article title to read more link
• Add article title to read more link
• Adding a new article
• Adding an image to an article
• Changing multi-column article order in section and category blogs
• Content Parameter Specifications
• Content editors
• Deleting an Article
• Entering raw HTML in editors
• How to control module display when linking to an article with no menu item?
• How to create an article from the front end?
• Can articles be assigned to multiple categories or sections?
• How do you add a PayPal button?
• How do you set global preferences for content?
• How do you set parameters for articles and other content items?

Article Management Help Screens

Article Management Help Screen	Version	Description
Content Article Manager Options		Used to set global defaults for menu items that display articles. These default values will be used when "Use Global" is selected for an option in an Articles menu item. For example, to show the 'Create Date' for an article in your Articles menu items, then set that option to "Show" here and it will be the default value. You do not need to set any of these options. Your Joomla site will work with the default settings.
Content Article Manager		The Article Manager is used to find, mark featured, add and edit articles. See Toolbar below for a detailed list of all functions.
Content Article Manager Edit		This is the back-end screen where you can add and edit Articles. The same screen is used for adding a new Article and editing an existing Article. You can also select the Category for an Article and indicate whether or not it is Published and if it is selected to appear on the Front Page.

Article Management Help Screen	Version	Description
Content Article Manager		The Article Manager is used to add and edit articles. See Toolbar below for a detailed list of all functions.
Content Article Manager Edit		This is the back-end screen where you can add and edit Articles. The same screen is used for adding a new Article and editing an existing Article. You can also select the Category for an Article and indicate whether or not it is Published and if it is selected to appear on the Front Page.
Content Article Manager Options		This screen is where you can set global defaults for menu items that display articles. These default values will be used when you select "Use Global" for an option in an Articles menu item. For example, if you normally want to show the Create Date for an article in your Articles menu items, then set that option to "Show" here and it will be the default value. You do not need to set any of these options. Your Joomla site will work with the default settings.

For more information, see Article Management Portal page.

User Management

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For more information, see User Management Portal page.

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
• Creating a Category Blog menu Help Screen

For more information, see Menu Management Portal page.

Joomla! Security Guide

Administrators should also be aware of security issues.

• Joomla Security Checklist
• How to enable HTTPS on your site
• Security and Performance FAQs
• Top 10 Stupidest Administrator Tricks
• Secure coding guidelines (for developers)

Joomla Security Forums

• Joomla 3.x Security Forum

Joomla Security Feeds

• Joomla! Security Updates
• Joomla! Vulnerable Extensions

Template Management

Managing Templates

The following articles will help new users understand how Joomla! uses templates to display web pages.

• Getting Started with Templates - New to Joomla! users should start here!
• Templates supplied with Joomla! - List of Templates supplied with a standard Joomla! install.
• Installing a template - A easy to follow how to.
• Accessing the Template Manager - General reference
• Switching templates - Change your Joomla! template
• Template style    - Understanding Joomla! Template features

Migrating from Joomla! 1.5 to 3.x

There are differences in how Joomla! 1.5 templates work compared to Joomla! 3.x templates. Joomla! 1.5 templates must be upgraded to work with 3.x.

• Migrating a Template from Joomla 1.5 to 3.x

For more information, see Template Management Portal page.

Tricks, Tips and Performance

Tips

• Speed up your site with caching: Cache
• Report a BUG: Filing bugs and issues
• Do a pull request: Using the Github UI to Make Pull Requests

Extension Management

Managing Extensions

• Finding an extension
• Installing an extension
• Uninstalling an extension
• Extension Manager Update
• Extension Manager Update
• Reinstalling deleted core extensions for Joomla 2.5
• Overriding a language string in Joomla or an extension

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:

• Installation
• Choosing an installation
• Choosing an installation and how to install WAMP/LAMP/XAMP
• upgrading
• PHP server upgrades on each platform, or with different systems
• Investigating and diagnosing a system you just inherited
• Monitoring website load / joomla code bottlenecks
• Receiving website feedback, depending on size of readership

Other Ideas and Suggestions

List your ideas and suggestions here:

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