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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

Time for action – replacing the default text editor of Joomla!


Let's install JCE and set it to be the default text editor.

  1. Navigate to Extensions | Extension Manager. In the search field in the Install from Web page, enter jce. The JCE will be shown as the first search result. Click on the JCE details and then click on the Install button, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. A great thing about JCE is that it fully automates the installation. Just hit the Install button in the next screen and you're good to go. The installation should take about half a minute. You'll see a message: Installing component was successful.

  3. There is just one thing to take care of now. Tell Joomla that you want JCE to be the default editor. Navigate to System | Global Configuration. In the Site Settings panel, set the Default Editor option to Editor - JCE and save your changes. This is shown in the following screenshot:

What just happened?

You've just installed JCE. From now on, whenever you create or edit an article...