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

Managing Users

• 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 Content

• 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 all Articles
• removing author name or creation/update dates from all Articles
• moving an Article to the archive
• deleting an Article

Managing Articles

• creating a section/category hierarchy
• adding a new article
• adding an image to an article
• adding a menu item which points to an Article
• managing the front page

Editing an Article

• inserting an image
• inserting an image from the Media Manager
• inserting a heading into an Article
• inserting a list into an Article
• inserting a table into an Article
• inserting a link to another Article or content page
• inserting a link to another website
• 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 or creation/update dates 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 on a menu
• moving a menu to a different position
• restricting access to a menu

Managing Extensions

• finding an extension
• installing an extension
• uninstalling an extension
• reinstalling deleted core extensions for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.0

Joomla! Security Guide

Note from the Doc Team: We are moving existing content from the FAQs and Forum sites. What you see is not complete and is subject to change as we re-organize the content.

• Joomla! Administrators Security Checklist
• Security and Performance FAQs
• Top 10 Stupidest Administrator Tricks

Joomla Security Forums

• Joomla Security Announcements
• Joomla 1.5 Security Forum
• Joomla 1.0 Security Forum