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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! is one of the most popular open source Content Management Systems, actively developed and supported by a world-wide user community. It's a free, fun, and feature-rich tool for anyone who wants to create dynamic, interactive websites. Even beginners can deploy Joomla to build professional websites. Even though it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build the site that meets your needs perfectly, this book will guide you through it all.</p> <p>Completely updated for Joomla! 3, this practical guide helps you to create professional and good-looking websites with Joomla!, whether you want to build a personal blog site or a full-featured company or club website.</p> <p>The Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide will help you to get started with Joomla! quickly. It's presented in an organized, easy-to-read manner. The book doesn’t focus on what Joomla! can do - it focuses on what you can do using Joomla!.</p> <p>You learn how to get Joomla! up and running, how to organize content, add new menus, add new features, change the design and much more. Real-life examples and tutorials will spark your imagination and show you what kind of professional, feature-rich websites any web builder can achieve with Joomla!. The focus is on clear instructions and easy-to-understand tutorials, with minimal jargon.</p> <p>Using the "Joomla! 3 Beginner’s Guide" you'll quickly gain the knowledge needed to build your own site, perfectly tailored to your specific needs.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – removing or replacing default texts


Let's say we want to remove the word Details that's displayed with every article. After all, it takes up valuable space on the screen and doesn't really convey useful information itself. Here's what the Details section of an article looks like by default:

  1. In the Joomla backend, navigate to Extensions | Language Manager and in the menu click on Overrides and then click on New. In the Search text you want to change section, enter the words or words you're looking for and click on Search. Joomla will display all matches. In this case, the first hit is the one we're looking for:

  2. Click on the search result (in this case COM_CONTENT_ARTICLE_INFO Details). It's automatically displayed in the Create a New Override section on the left-hand side of the screen. In the Text field, enter the text you want to replace the current text with. In this case, we want to display no text at all, so keep the Text field empty:

  3. Click on Save & Close. You're...