Joomla 2.5 is a complex content management system that is extremely powerful and versatile. Joomla 2.5 is being used by individuals, small and medium sized businesses. I created my first Joomla website way back and found no documentation, so I started to create my own. See my Joomla 2.5 tutorials on how to use :
- User Manager
- Menu Manager
- Content Manager
- Media manager
- Extensions Manager
- Module Manager
- Extensions Manager
- Plugin Manager
- Template Manager
Also on how to create articles, create modules, add banners, and all the other functionalities of Joomla. Below is my Joomla 2.5 repository of Joomla documentation and tutorials that I created for you. Hopefully you will find them useful. You can always email or contact me if you have any questions. This page will be continuously updated as I create the tutorials. You can also check out the Joomla 1.6 Tutorials (click here) and Joomla 1.7 tutorials (click here) as Joomla 2.5 differs slightly from these versions. Enjoy!
1. Installing Joomla 2.5
- How to fix Joomla 2.5 is stripping html and iframe code
- How to fix Database Connection Error : 2 when installing Joomla 2.5
- How to Remove Joomla 2.5 footer – Powered by Joomla
- How to Disable Collapsible Right Column – Close Info/Open Info
- How to Always Hide the Right Column in Beez_20
- How to change Administrator URL
- How to Change the Site Logo in Joomla 2.5.x
- How to change your Favicon
- How to include Site name in the Title Bar
- How to Remove/Change the Site description at the top – “Open Source Content Management”
- Remove “Home” Breadcrumbs on Frontpage
- How to make Joomla site offline
- How to Enable Debug Mode
- How to Disable Debug Mode
- How to customize the text in the “Who’s Online” Module
- How to activate the Extended TinyMCE Editor
- How to Show “Welcome (Name) with Logout Button”
- How to Fix Joomla Update error – “-1 An error has occurred. Copy Failed.”
- How to fix Joomla Update error – ” Error loading component: com_joomlaupdate. 1″
- How to fix Joomla Update error – “Warning: Database is Not up to date!”
- How to change the text “Close Info” and “Open Info”
2. Managing Images with the Media Manager
- How to Create a new Folder in Media Manager
- How to upload images
- How to bulk upload images using Flash Uploader
- How to Activate Mass Upload Feature
- How to create a new images directory
- How to change image maximum upload file size in Joomla 2.5
- How to Delete Joomla_black.gif
- How to Delete a Folder in Media Manager in Joomla 2.5
3. Creating Categories with the Category Manager
- How to restore deleted categories
- Creating categories for your site
- How to create nested categories
- Modifying categories
- How to display multiple subcategories in Blog Layout
- How to display Subcategories with Images and Descriptions
4. Creating Articles with the Article Manager
- How to Assign Articles to Multiple Categories in Joomla 2.5
- How to Remove Article Title from Read More Link
- How to Fix Featured Articles not sorting properly
- How to Reset Article Hit Counter
- How to fix error: Check-out failed error. You are not permitted to use that link to directly access that page (#8).
- Change Order of Featured Articles
- Adding articles to the featured page
- Remove articles from the frontpage
- How to make Featured Articles “Sticky”
- Where is the Frontpage Manager
- Creating individual articles
- How to Insert or Edit an Article Anchor
- Featured articles ordering horizontally or down
- How to fix Featured Articles sorting by Category Name
- How to show/hide Next/Previous Links in Articles
- How to hide Article Details
- How to hide Article Details on Every Page
- How to Display the Article Publish Date/Article Details
- How to Place a Module Inside an Article
- Formatting articles
- Adding an external link
- Adding an internal link
- Adding article images
- How to wrap text around images
- Adding a YouTube video to an article
- Linking to a PDF or other document
- How to add ‘Read More’ link to article
- Dividing long articles using page breaks
- Deleting and restoring articles
- How to add Google Adsense to Joomla Articles
- How to delete an Article
- Where are trashed articles
- Where is the Trash Manager
- How to purge articles from the Trash
- How to reset article hits
- How to embed Google Forms in Article
- How to remove the Lock icon?
5. Creating Menus with the Menu Manager
- Change default number of Articles to Display in Category List Menu Item
- How to hide ‘Site Administrator’ link
- Understanding and configuring menus
- How to Change the default Home Menu Item
- How to fix – A first level menu item alias cannot be ‘templates’ because ‘templates’ is a sub-folder of your joomla installation folder
- How to fix – A first level menu item alias cannot be ‘media’ because ‘media’ is a sub-folder of your joomla installation folder
- How to Link Menu Items to Article Anchors
- How to remove “Welcome to Frontpage”
- How to Change the Menu Title?
- How to Hide Menu Item Title/Page Title
- Linking an article to the menu
- Creating a Menu Item For Component
- How to Add a ‘Contact Us’ Link to the Main Menu
- Understanding parent and child menu items
- How to Make the Parent Menu Item Not Clickable
- Create Sub/Menus to link to Article Categories
- How to create a Category Blog Menu
- How to Display the Article Publish Date/Details in Article Menu Items
- Configuring category blogs
- Advanced category blog configuration
- Configuring category lists
- Advanced category list configuration
- Comparing page headings, article titles, and browser page titles
- How to Show/Hide Next/Previous Links in Menus
- How to Show Next / Previous Links in Category Blog Menu Item in Joomla 2.5
- Configuring submenus
- Creating a new menu and displaying it on the site
- How to display external website within your Joomla website
- How to Unpublish a Menu
- How to use Images for the Menu instead of text
- How to Create a Category Blog with Multiple Categories
- How to delete menu alias – Another menu item with the same parent has this alias
6. Setting Display Options
- Setting global configuration options for articles
- Add Site Title to Administrator Pages
- Setting menu options
- Setting individual article configuration options
7. Using Modules with the Module Manager
- Where is the Module Manager Trash Manager in Joomla 2.5
- How to Purge Deleted Modules from the Trash Manager in Joomla 2.5
- How to Restore Deleted Modules from the Trash Manager in Joomla 2.5
- Installing a new modules
- Deleting a module
- How to uninstall Modules
- Adding a module to your website
- How to Sort Modules Manually
- Assigning a module to the site
- How to remove modules from the frontpage
- How to remove banners Contribute!, Books!, Shop!
- How to change bottom 3 images that read ‘Support Joomla’
- How to add Adsense to your Joomla website
- How to add Banners to your website
- How to fix problem in Banner Manager – Delete not allowed for category Sample Data-Banners
- Publish a single article in a module position
- How to Remove the “Search” box on the frontpage
- How to Remove the Font Size Resizers “Bigger Reset Smaller”
8. Using Components with the Extensions Manager
- How to uninstall Plugins
- How to uninstall Languages
- How to Increase the Search Character Limit
- How to Change the Minimum Search Character Limit
- How to install a component in Joomla
- How to uninstall a component
- Deleting a component
- Using the contact component
- Creating a contact list
- Using the banner component
- Using the web links component
- How to Change Default Number of Weblinks per Page
9. Using Templates – Changing look of your website with the Template Manager
- Installing templates
- Uninstalling/deleting templates
- Setting the default site template
- Changing the admin template
- Joomla! templates from third-party providers
- What are the Template module positions
- How to edit Template css files
- How Install and Activate a new Joomla Template
- How to change default font color
- How to add a new module position in your Joomla Template
10. Essentials with the User Manager
- How to remove password from User activation and confirmation emails
- Creating a new group
- Creating a user
- How to hide ‘Basic Settings’ in User Profile
- How to Change the Super Administrator Password
- How to redirect users on Login
- How to create hidden article and redirect registered users to that article
- How to redirect users on Logout
- Create Guest Only Access to Menus and Modules
- Assigning permissions to a user group
- How to grant user Super Administrator Access in Database
- Creating a new access level
- Configuring content for ACL
- Creating a login link
- How to Remove the Login Form & Link
- Disable New Account Registration
- Allowing self-registration
- How to Allow User Registration
- How to enable user to create an account
- How to allow users to modify their own user profile
- Grant Admin Access to Article Manager for Certain Users
- How to grant access to your Joomla site while it is offline
11. Extending Joomla! 2.5
- How to move the Article Voting to Bottom of article instead of at the top under the article heading
- Evaluating extensions in the Joomla! Extensions Directory
- Installing Akeeba Backup and creating a backup
- Installing and using Simple Image Gallery
- Upgrading extensions
- Delete Sample Data
12. Recommended and useful Joomla 1.7 and Joomla 1.6 Extensions
- Module – SQL to query the Backend Database Directly
elaine
elaine@cmsmind.com