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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 – hiding content from non-registered users


Let's explore how hiding content works. By default, every menu item is visible—the Access Level is set to Public. We'll change that setting for the Activities link that's currently shown in the Main Menu:

Let's make this Activities link only visible for registered users that have logged in:

  1. Go to Menus | Main Menu and click on the Activities link to edit it.

  2. In the menu links Details, set the Access level to Registered, and click on Save & Close.

What just happened?

That's it! By changing a single menu item parameter, you've effectively hidden the menu item from non-registered users. The output is shown in the following screenshot:

The Activities link will only be displayed after a registered user has logged in.

Have a go hero – changing access level settings

You may want to explore the way you can change access levels for different items on your site. Take a look at the details of any article, menu item, or module—you'll find that there...