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 that the menu settings override the global settings.

Th changes are made in Parameters > Advanced. Once you go there you will see many options. Let us take the one called Author Name is a choice. You can see that you have Use Global, Show and Hide as the three options. The choice you will have within settings of the article at hand, will determine whether the author of the article will be shown or not. But this will only affect this article. Thus, from where you want to make the changes depends on what you wish to do. If you just want to hide certain information from a few articles or if each article will have a different info hidden, then you should make the changes within the articles' parameters.

If you wish for the global settings to be used, you need to choose

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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 closing the article with the cancel button, he or she might just close the browser or browse away from the backend. This will result in the article being locked.

If this is the case, you simply need to go to Tools > Global Checkin. This will get rid of the locked status of any article which might have ended up staying as locked.

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