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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Restoring a previous version of an article


When adding or revising content in an article, you might want to reverse your changes and return to a previous version of an article; maybe because you've deleted some of the article text and accidentally saved the new version, thus throwing away all content the article previously contained, or maybe because you decide you want to go back to the brilliant phrasing you used in an earlier version of the same article.

From Joomla 3.2 onwards, a powerful new feature was added: content version history. You can track older versions of articles, compare changes, and restore articles as required. Let's find out what this feature has to offer you.

  1. Go to Content | Article Manager. Open the Mission Statement article. Up to now, there's just one version of this article, as you've saved it once after writing it.

  2. We'll make a second, revised version of the article. In the editor screen, delete the first two sentences and replace them. In this example, I've replaced...