Administrators
From Joomla! Documentation
<translate> 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.</translate>
Joomla! Administrator's Manual
Note from the Doc Team: At the present time we are assembling an outline "content plan" for this document. What you see is not complete and is subject to change as we re-organise stuff and develop our thinking of what should be included and where it should be placed. 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 items you think should be included or amending items already present if you think they can be improved.
Managing the Website
- 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
Article Management · User Management · Template Management · Menu Management
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User Management Tutorials</translate>
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For more information, see User Management.
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For more information, see Article Management.
Editing 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
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
Managing Contacts
Managing Newsfeeds
Managing Polls
Managing Web Links
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
Tips, tricks and performance
- Speed up your site with caching: Cache
Joomla Security Guide
Administrators should also be aware of security issues. Template:Security Guide