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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 – 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.

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

  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 box, 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 box empty.

  3. Click on Save & Close. You're done! Check the frontend...