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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Working with comments


Your site may be one such as a blog that allows visitors to comment on the articles. It may be a product site, which seeks customer feedback. Or you may just want people to leave a comment.

K2 has you covered in all these scenarios and more. The built-in comment system is easy to use and requires little configuration.

How to do it...

Enabling comments in a category.

You first need to decide if commenting will be allowed GLOBALLY or by certain categories or items. Let's examine all three methods.

Globally:

If you used the master category method then you can make this change quickly and easily.

  1. Open K2 Dashboard.

  2. Open Categories.

  3. Open your master category category.

  4. Scroll down on your right (Parameters) and select Item view options.

  5. Scroll down to the option shown as follows:

  6. To allow Comments to be given globally check Show.

  7. To disallow Comments to be given globally check Hide.

    Each of these can be overridden at the sub-category and Item level.

Top level and sub-categories.

  1. Open K2...