If you want to remove extensions, then you can follow the following steps :
1. Components : Go to your admin area > Joomla Extensions > Install/Uninstall > Components > click the Uninstall
2. Modules : Go to your admin area > Joomla Extensions > Install/Uninstall > Modules > click the Uninstall
3. Plugins : Go to your admin area > Joomla Extensions > Install/Uninstall > Plugins > click the Uninstall
4. Languages : Go to your admin area > Joomla Extensions > Install/Uninstall > Languages > click the Uninstall
5. Templates : Go to your admin area > Joomla Extensions > Install/Uninstall > Templates > click the Uninstall
There are many types of extension available in the market for Joomla. Those are as follows :
1. Joomla Components
2. Modules
3. PluginsS
4. Templates
5. Languages
You can use every extension to your website. Each extension adds different function to your web page.
1.Joomla Components – It is very small application. If you want to add this this application then you can find the sub-items of the “Components” menu in your Joomla administrative panel. Components differentiated into two parts. First one is the back-end. You can assemble and manage it’s content with the help of back-end. The second part is front-end. You can show your information in your chosen process with the help of front-end part.
2.Modules – These are light extensions used to place information on your website. For eg, you can make use of the “Popular” component module attached to attached to the com_content component. Through this component, you can display all the popular articles in your Joomla website. Even if they are not attached to any component, modules can be used to display all kinds of information like static HTML or even complex slide shows. To manage these go to your Joomla Extensions -> Module Manager.
3. Plugins – Plugins is well known as “Mambots”. If you want any extra functionality for your website then you can use plugins. They are a set of intricate extensions designed to deal with various events. Such as : You can insert movies to your articles with the help of plugins. To handle your plugins you can go to Joomla admin and choose Extensions and then select Plugin Manager
4. Templates – You can manage your whole website page’s design or website’s look through templates. If you want convert your default template then you can go to Joomla admin and choose “Extensions” and then select “Template Manager”.
5. Languages - With the help of languages, you can change whole Joomla interface of your administrative panel and the front-end of your website. If you want to handle that language which is already installed in Joomla application then you can go to Joomla admin and choose “Extensions” and then select “Language Manager”.
To upgrade any version newer than Joomla 1.5x, you have to overwrite the outdated Joomla files first because of this Joomla offer upgrade Patches. You can see the patch for your installation . When you download, then keep in mind that the downloaded files will be .zip extention.
You can uplode and extract the package through cpanel as shown in these steps:
A. Go into your cPanel > file Manager > go to the Joomla installation folder> click on the Upload button.
B. Select the the Patch Package from the location where you saved it on your computer.
c. Click on the Patch Package file in the File Manager. You will have to use the extract function to extract the archive file. Click on the Extract button and the files will be extracted.
Once you have done that, you will have installed the latest Joomla version.
If you want to upgrade through Joomla, first download the Joomla Patch Package to your local computer and then you can upload the package to the Joomla installation directory.
When you discover that your Joomla is under attack, you should first go through the weblogs. You might discover suspicious client requests there for eg:
192.168.0.1 – - [29/Oct/2008:06:07:30 -0500] “GET /index.php?live_site=domain.com/1.txt?? HTTP/1.1″ 200 10864 “-” “Firefox”
But there are times when its extremely difficult to trace and decode an attack on your website. It might take the skills and time of an expert developer to successfully trace an attack. Hopefully the below points might prove helpful to prevent any attacks on your Joomla website
1. Check if the Joomla core is updated with the latest version. Older versions are more susceptible to attacks and hacks. To check this, you will have to log into your Joomla admin where the version is clearly specified.
2. Outdated Joomla Add ons/ modules
With the core, also check for any additional modules. If you have any outdated versions of modules that can create problems with security. You have to keep them updated always. You can easily check on upgrades, security issues on the modules official websites.
3. Security breaches through misconfigurations:
In PHP configuration: check ‘register_globals’ if this is ‘on’ this directive can cause variable poisoning;
Switch this ‘off’
PHP configuration: check ‘- allow_url_include’. If this directive is ‘on’, it is easy to add remote code to your Joomla script. Turn this off too.
using the default table prefix _jos. This allows MySQL injections. You have to make changes so that your table prefix cannot be easily decoded through this component.
RG_EMULATION turned on in Joomla 1.0.* – this directive emulates register_globals locally. This directive should be disabled. When enabled a warning will be displayed right after you log in to your Joomla admin panel. To disable it, you can add the following somewhere in the middle of the configuration.php file:
if(!defined(‘RG_EMULATION’)) { define( ‘RG_EMULATION’, 0 ); }
This tutorial is designed to help you change the template in Joomla 1.5, you will be able to change the default template of your Joomla 1.5 website. With Joomla, you can easily change the templates without any troubles. You can search for Joomla templates on the internet- there are several attractive templates which can be downloaded for Joomla 1.5
Find and download the Joomla template. Save it on your computer. Once your template is saved its very easy to change the Joomla template.
First log into the Joomla admin area and go to extensions menu. Click on install/uninstall from the drop down menu.
Now click ‘upload package file’ box. Here you have to specify where you have saved the downloaded template on your computer.
Upload the template and install it. Once done, you will have to apply that template to your Joomla website.
Once again go Extensions and click on Template manager from the drop down.
Here, select the template you just installed. In the top right menu click on ‘Default’. Now the template will be applied to your website.
This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a horizontal drop-down menus in your Joomla 1.5 website.
You will have to create the drop down menu through the ‘Extended Menu module’. For that you have to download and install the extension on your Joomla website. You can download this module from the websites of its creators: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/extended_menu/frs/
Once you have downloaded and installed the module, you can start.
1.Extensions -> Module Manager> Extended Menu module.
2.Extended Menu module Configuration: you can set different variables for the different kinds of menus. It is recommended not to change most of the settings values
3.In the ‘menu style’ option, select ‘tree list’; Active Menu class set to ‘both’, Menu template- enabled to ‘no’ and Element Id: ‘yes’. In addition you have to select which menu should be loaded from the Menu Name drop-down box.
4.Organize your menus to display them in drop down.
5.For eg, we will create sub-menu of the ‘Features’ menu and display it as a drop-down. Menus -> Top Menu.
6.Click on ‘New menu’> set the menu to display the content you wish. Set this to its ‘parent’ menu. For us this is the features menu.
7.Now you set the behaviour for your drop down menu in the CSS file. To do that, add the lines last in the stylesheet file of your template.css
You can customize the appearance of your menu through the CSS. Once that is done, hover your mouse over the ‘features’ tab to display the drop down menu you created.
This tutorial will help you to convert a static website ( Frontpage/ Dreamweaver) to Joomla 1.5
Its a difficult task to manage static websites. A simple text change requires you to first make those changes locally and then upload them to the hosting account. This process in Joomla is simple with the flexibility a CMS application. Thats the reason so many people are This is why many people consider converting their static websites to Joomla. To convert your static website to Joomla, there are two processes involved: actual website data addition and redesigning your website.
Start with transferring the data first- it is a lot easier to recreate your website design with the data in place. Data addition takes place in two stages: pages and menu.
First create your main menu and a home item to show the contents of your front page.
Step 1. Log in to the Joomla admin area> “Menu Manager” >> click on “New” button to start creating your menu.
Step 2. Next, create a title and description for the new menu. Later you will have to add modules to this.
Step 3. Start adding items to your menu. Click on ‘New’ at the top-right part of the page. For this tutorial, lets create a single item ‘homepage’
Step 4. Now you will have to chose the menu type. The item in this menu will show your front page. Thus, open the “Articles” category> click on “Front Page Blog Layout” item type.
Step 5. In the title field, put in Home” in the title field. The title will now appear menu link displayed on your website. You can edit this anytime you wish from the admin area.
Step 6. Click on the “Save” button at the top-right part of the page.
Step 7. Now you have to set this menu item as default. So when your website is opened this page will be loaded first. You have to set a default page in Joomla- otherwise a”404 Component not found” error will be displayed when someone opens your website.
Click on check box next to your menu item > press the “Default” button.
Step 8. Your menu is now complete. Now add a module to your website to show your menu. For that, got to ‘Extensions’> Module Manager>> ‘New’ button on the top of the page.
Step 9. Select”Menu” for module type and click “Next”.
Step 10. Set a name for the module and select “Enabled”.
Step 11. Select the position where the module should be displayed. In this tutorial we’ll create a horizontal menu right under the main header, for eg: “user3″ as position. If the position is not available in the drop-down list, you can simply type it.
Step 12. Top right menu> Click on ‘Save’
You are all set to create the main menu and its first item. You can add additional items to the menu from the menu manager. Try out the different types of menus to see how they display your content.
Step 13. You can start adding the content to the new Joomla site. For each page of content from your static site, you can create a New Article in Joomla. Here is how you can learn to create new articles in Joomla.
After adding all your data to the Joomla site, you can redesign your website through a previously created template or by creating a new template. If you want to start creating your design from scratch, you can refer to our tutorial on How to create a simple Joomla 1.5 template.
Please refer to the other Joomla 1.5 tutorials on our website for information on how to create different types of pages, add extensions, etc.
This tutorial will help you to successfully make a poll for your website
Making a Poll in Joomla 1.5 :
You can add a ‘poll’ page to your Joomla website. Lets assume you want a feedback about your website from the site visitors. You can easily make a poll page as shown in the steps below:
Go to the Joomla admin area, go to components> Polls. Select ‘new’ from the menu.
You can name the poll ‘Please tell us how you like our website’
Now, on the left menu, you can put in the options eg: ‘Needs Improvement, Not Bad, Good, Superb..etc’
Save your poll. Now you have to publish it in your website.
Go to the menu at the top right. Check the ‘poll’ option from the list that is there. Click on next.
make the poll title: ‘How do you like our website’. Set the ‘Show title’ value to ‘no’.
Now go to Module parameters> poll select. Your poll will appear which you have to select.
In the top right menu, save your poll. Now your poll is published on your website front page.
This is how you can make a number of other similar polls for your Joomla web pages. This is an example. You can also make polls for getting feedbacks about products, services etc.
If you have installed Joomla through Fantastico or from source with the sample data, you will already have a few articles created and published. Before you create your own articles, these pre loaded articles will be useful for you to get an idea about the whole process. We recommend you to go through those articles and see how they are written and organized in order to get used to managing your articles. To see them go to Content > Article Manager from the top admin menu.
In the article manager section, you will see several articles listed. You can open and edit any of those articles as you wish. To do that, click on one of the article link. You will enter the Edit mode for the article. From the Edit menu you can modify the article’s title, text, etc.
Before you can start building your own first article, make sure to remove all default articles to avoid any confusion. You can delete the articles, you will have to go back to the article manager again. Content > Article Manager from the top admin menu.
Then select all articles by checking the first radio button in the column and click on the [Trash] button from the top admin menu. Now all the default articles have been cleared from the article manager.
Now You can create a article which we will call “First Article”.
Step 1: Go to the top admin menu and select “New”.
Step 2 : Do the following correction in corresponding fields :
Title: First Article
Alias: (gap)
Section: Uncategorized
Category: Uncategorized
Published: Yes (If you don’t want to publish your article then It will rest only as a draft. )
Front page: Yes (It will permit to appear on the first page of your site.)
In the main text field write some information about your company.
Step 3 : If you want to add your company’s logo. Then you click on the image icon which is present in the foot of the page.
Step 4 : If your company’s logo is not uploaded then you can :
1.Click on the “Upload file”.
2.Surf your local computer(to find the logo)
3.Click on “Start Upload”(to upload it).
Step 5 : You receive a formal approval for successfully uploaded the file. After receive the formal approval you see it in the above part of the window together with the Joomla images. Click on Your logo name to select it and then on “Insert” to insert it in your article.
Step 6 : click on Save button to save this article
Once you install Joomla 1.5 pn your account, you are set to add the your site content.
So, if your site domain is my_site_domain.com, you can access the Joomla admin panel at my_site_domain.com/administrator.
Once the admin page opens, you will have to log in to the admin area with your Joomla login information.
* Note this is just an example. Please use your actual domain name.
I cannot log in to the Joomla admin area:
Sometimes, even when you enter the log in email and password correctly, you can encounter errors while trying to login to the admin area. You can change the user password in the data base if you cannot log in after several attempts. You will require to have access to the MySQL database using phpMyAdmin.
- Go to phpMyAdmin> click on the left hand drop down menu. You will see a list of database tables.
- From the table, select the database for the Joomla! Site>> click on table “jos_users”.
- To see all the users assigned for your Joomla site, click on ‘browse’ on the toolbar at the top.
- Once you find the user for which you want to change the password for, click on ‘edit’ icon.
- A form will come up next where you can edit the password. In the password field copy the following>
d2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKHx6dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199
- Click on ‘go’ button once you have copied this. phpMyAdmin should display the message “Affected rows: 1″. At this point, the password should be changed to “secret”.
- Now log in with this user and password and change the password of this user to a secure value.
- As an added security measure, check all the users on the site through the User Manager. Ensute all the users are valid and authenticated. In case your site is a victim of hacking attempt, you can change the passwords for all the site users in similar fashion.