In the "Submit Article" portion, what if text color isn't right? (For Joomla Administrator's ONLY!)

One issue that seems to happen with many Joomla templates is that the text within the "Submit an Article" section blend in with the background, like this:(This image was taken AFTER I fixed the issue)To change the color to something that will stand out from the background, simply edit the template's CSS. (template.css)Once in, find "td.key"Behind...

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Hiding Information in an Article

At times, you might not want to show some automatic information which is available when viewing an article. For example, you might not want to show the author or the creation date of the article.Basically, there are three places where such information's settings exist. These are article settings, menu settings and the global configuration. What you need to keep in mind is that the article settings override the menu setttings and...

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The Article is Currently Being Edited by Another Editor

If you have more than one editor at your Joomla site, you need to keep in mind that only one editor can edit an article at a time. So, once an editor has gone inside an article to make edits, the other editors will not be able to go in that article until the first editor has finished his or her editing.But what might happen at times is that the editor who went in the article could end up not making any changes and rather than...

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More Than One Joomla Template On One Site?

A functionality I personally never needed, but one which might be quite useful for others is the ability to have more than one template on a single site. For example, you might want the frontpage to have one template and the rest of the site to use a completely different template.To do this, needless to say, the first thing you need to ensure...

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Home to Remove the Welcome to Frontpage Title

This is something fairly simple. But for many new users, it is difficult to figure out from where exactly to get rid of the "Welcome to Frontpage" title after a fresh Joomla installation.From the backend, fo the Menus - Main Menu. Click on the Home link to edit it. Go on the right of the page where you have Parameters (System). There you...

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How to See the Module Positions

As you know, each theme can have different module positions. In fact, some of them can be quite different from what the default theme's positions are. When that is the case, you might not be able to show a certain module in where you think it needs to show up.For example, usually there is an area called top, just at the top of your theme....

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Multiple Images Next to Each Other?

If you're new to Joomla or have difficulty in using its editor, dealing with the images might be problematic. One question I've seen raised is when site owners would like to have a few images next to each other one the same line. When they do this in the editor, things look fine, but when they view the article after publishing it, the images are centered and one below the other.To solve this, all you need to do is left align each...

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RSS Feed on Frontpage of Site?

Some Joomla users were wondering if there's a way to show RSS feeds right in the center of your frontpage, rather than in the modules and without the need of any extensions to be installed. Well, there is, and it's much simpler than one thinks.In your backend, you should go to Menus and find your main menu. Once in there, click on Home. Once in, you will see on top that you have the option to Change Type. The type you want to...

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Can you post articles from the frontpage?

The answers is, yes. But to be able to do so, you will need to have the login module and the submit article link show in your template. The login should automatically be there when you install Joomla, but you might have removed it at one point. If so, look under Extensions > Module Manager to locate the related module. Its name is mod_login. This module is necessary because unless you are logged in from the frontpage of your...

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