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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Using and configuring CompojoomComment


When you surf the web these days, you see comments everywhere. Comments on news, on YouTube videos, newspaper sites and more. Joomla! in its core does not offer a powerful commenting system for visitors. CompojoomComment allows you the ability to offer commenting capability on nearly any article or extension. It works with third-party components such as K2, DocMan, and others.

In this recipe you will learn to install, configure, and use this "must have" extension. You may download a copy of this from the PacktPub website. Support subscriptions are available from http://www.compojoom.com.

Getting ready

Please download this extension from PacktPub or the developer's site to try this exercise.

How to do it...

  1. Login to your Administrator Console.

  2. Install the extension - Extension Manager | Install / Uninstall.

  3. Once complete you'll receive this message.

  4. Preview the front end of your site and your content (all of it) will be comment-enabled as follows:

    As you see...