Joomla 3.0

Joomla 3.1.1 Tutorial – Hide Article Tags in Article

by Elaine May 17, 2013

Joomla 3.1.1 Tutorial – You can choose to hide or show the Article Tags in the Articles.  Currently my articles are defaulted to display my Article Tags.  You can easily change the setting in the Article Manager Options or in the Article itself to change the viewing option individually.  If you change it at the [...]

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Joomla Tutorial – How to Upgrade your Joomla Version to Joomla 3.1.1

by Elaine May 16, 2013

I had version Joomla 3.0.1 and I just upgraded to Joomla 3.1.1.  Below are steps on how to upgrade your version of Joomla.  It’s really easy now because you can update your Joomla 3.0 directly from the Joomla control panel.  Afterwards you can look at your Joomla System Information to confirm you successfully upgraded to [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Enable Administrator Toolbar

by Elaine May 11, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to enable the administrator buttons in your backend administrator site.  You should see admin buttons to manage your site and in the Article Manager, you should be able to save, save & close, close articles as well.  If you don’t see these buttons or admin toolbar, you can easily enable [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Upload Images to a Subfolder

by Elaine May 11, 2013

This Joomla 3.0 Tutorial will show you how to upload an image to a subfolder in your Media Manager.  By default, if you click on the upload button, Joomla will upload images to the root media folder.  If you are using a control panel with a file manager, you will find your media files under [...]

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How to Make First Featured Article Title Not Clickable in Joomla 3.0

by Elaine April 22, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to make certain article titles in your Featured Article list non-clickable.  You can easily perform this by first editing the Article Options in your menu item and then at the article level Article Options.   In my example, my menu item ‘Home’ displays all my featured articles.  Then I want [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Reorder Featured Articles

by Elaine April 22, 2013

I just noticed Joomla 3.0 has a new way to order featured articles.  It’s a slightly easier way and definitely easier to understand.  This new way to order articles is only available for featured articles and not for the rest of the articles in the Content Manager.  This is the only place where you cannot [...]

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How to Update Joomla 3.0 to Joomla 3.0.3

by Elaine February 19, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to easily update your existing version Joomla 3.0 to Joomla 3.0.3.  In the newer versions of Joomla, they have made is easier to update.  Now I just have to go to the System Control Panel and see that there is an update pending and click on the update button.  I’ve [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Create a Menu Link to a URL

by Elaine February 18, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to create a menu link to an external URL.  This is very easy and you can accomplish this by creating a new menu item and selecting the ‘External URL’ menu item type in the Menu Manager.  Make sure that you created a module for this menu so that you can [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Remove Category Name From Article

by Elaine February 14, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on how to remove the category name from articles you see on your Joomla website.  You can remove the category name article details from all the articles or just one article.  I will show you how to remove the category name article detail from all articles on your site.   Below is [...]

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Joomla 3.0 Tutorial – How to Link an Article to Joomla Menu

by Elaine February 13, 2013

Joomla 3.0 Tutorial on How to link an Articles to Joomla Menu.  I currently have a Joomla Menu item created from the Weblinks component.  It lists all my links that I added in the Weblinks Component.  I also have an article called ’6th Cmsmind’ and in here I want to link directly to the Weblinks [...]

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