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Joomla 4 User Manual

Manual Index

Index of Articles

Getting Started

Introduction to Joomla!
Joomla Core Features
Hosting Setup
Installing Joomla
Logging in to Joomla
Articles and categories
Getting Started: Adding an Article
Getting Started: Adding a Category
Getting Started: Adding a Menu Item
Getting Started: Adding a Module
Getting Started: Site and Administrator templates
Keyboard Shortcuts

Articles

Create and Manage Article Categories
Adding a New Article
Deleting an Article
Featured Articles
How to Archive an Article
Article Headings
Adding an image to an article
Article Links
Adding a menu link in an article
Read More Links
Article Lists
Article Pagination
Article Tables

Articles - Access

Article Check-out and Check-in
Article Preview
Scheduling the publication of an article
Restricting access to an Article
Restricting access to "read more"
Entering search engine meta-data
Using The Meta Description
Using The Title Tag

Banners

Banners

Command

Using the CLI
Joomla CLI Installation

Configuration

System Setup
Global Configuration
Site Offline
How do I use Gmail as my mail server?
How to debug SMTP mail in Joomla 4
Preconfigured htaccess
Robots.txt file
Adding www to a url
How do you block direct hot linking to image files using htaccess?
How do you block directory scans using htaccess?
What are the recommended file and directory permissions?
How do you convert an htaccess.txt file into a .htaccess file?
How do you password protect directories using htaccess?

Contacts

Listing a user on a contacts page
What is the contact creator?

Dashboards

Home Dashboard
Content Dashboard
Menu Dashboard
Components Dashboard
Users Dashboard
System Dashboard
Help

Editors

Content editors
Entering raw HTML in editors
Why are the backgrounds of your WYSIWYG editor fields colored?
Why do the pop ups in your WYSIWYG editor not work or show gibberish?
How to place a copy of an Excel worksheet on to your web site for viewing only

Extensions

System Install
Category:JED
What is a vulnerable extension?
Where can you learn about vulnerable extensions?
How do you choose secure extensions?
Why are there vulnerable extensions?
Why isn't un-publishing a vulnerable extension enough to protect your site?
Installing an extension

Fields

Fields and Field Groups
Adding custom fields/Parameters for all Custom Fields
Adding custom fields/What components are supporting custom fields
Adding custom fields/Calendar Field
Adding custom fields/Checkboxes Field
Adding custom fields/Color Field
Adding custom fields/Editor Field
Adding custom fields/Integer Field
Adding custom fields/List Field
Adding custom fields/List of Images Field
Adding custom fields/Media Field
Adding custom fields/Multilingual Sites
Adding custom fields/Overrides
Adding custom fields/Radio Field
Adding custom fields/Sql Field
Custom fields type: Subfields
Adding custom fields/Text Field
Adding custom fields/Textarea Field
Adding custom fields/Url Field
Adding custom fields/User Field
Adding custom fields/Usergroup Field

Help

Joomla help system
What are help screens?

Hosting

Optional Technical Requirements
Moving the site among directories/sub-directories
Multiple Domains and Web Sites in a single Joomla! installation
Nginx
Should PHP run as a CGI script or as an Apache module?
What is the difference between a Sub-Domain, Parked Domain and an Add-On Domain?
How do UNIX file permissions work?
How do Windows file permissions work?
How do phpSuExec file permissions work?
How do you recursively adjust file and directory permissions?
How do you restrict directory access by IP address using htaccess?
How to check if mod rewrite is enabled on your server
Using an FTP client to upload files

Installation Variations

How to build your free Joomla Website
FreeBSD Installation
IBM cloud installation
IIS
Installing Joomla! using BitNami Joomla! stack
Installing Joomla on Debian Linux
External links
Installing Joomla on a local web server
Installing Joomla on a rented web server
Installing Joomla using an Auto Installer

Languages

Setup a Multilingual Site
Multilingual Associations
Language Overrides
Debugging a translation

Media

Managing Media
Media: Upload Delete Rename
Media: Image Crop Resize Rotate
Media: Options
Media: Uploading SVG files

Menus

Adding a New Menu
Menu Items
Menu Item Types
Menu Item Order
Submenus
Menu Positions
Auto redirect guests to login
How to Create a Menu Item to View Archived Articles
Adding a Custom Administrator Menu

Migration

Why Migrate
Joomla 3.x to 4.x Step by Step Migration
Updating from an existing version
Migration Step by Step Self Assessment
Converting an existing website to a Joomla! website
Update fails with an error message
Updating Joomla (Install Method)
Updating Joomla (Update Method)
Planning Migration - Joomla 1.5 to 4
Planning for Migration
Planning for Mini-Migration - Joomla 3.10.x to 4.x
Potential backward compatibility issues in Joomla 4
Pre-Update Check
Template Considerations During Migration

Modules

Site Modules
Administrator Modules
Module Positions
Module Display by Menu Item
How do you put a module inside an article?
Enabling the Login Form module
Changing the Login Form module settings
Customising the Login Form module
Module Class Suffix
Standard Module Chromes
How to Show a Calendar Month List of Archived Articles Using a Module
How do you create a custom module?
How to control module display when linking to an article with no menu item
How do you add a PayPal button?

News

Using RSS Feeds To Share Content
How do you display an RSS feed?

Performance

Managing 404 Errors
Validating against accessibility standards

Plugins

Plugin Joomla Update Notification

Privacy

Privacy Setup
Privacy Workflow
Cookie notification

Problems

How do you recover or reset your admin password?
Assorted Issues
Unsupported PHP Version
FatalError
Fix "Database Table Structure NOT Up to Date" before Update
Get locally hosted Joomla! website e-mail functions to work
Joomla and MySQL 8
Please first make a selection from the list
Unable to connect to the database
Update did not finish successfully

Reference

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
What has the copyright of Joomla!?
What license is Joomla! released under?
What are web standards?
Where are the web pages?

Security

What is the Joomla! Administrator's Security Checklist?
Enabling HTTPS on your site
Htaccess examples (security)
Security Checklist/Getting Started
Security Checklist/Hosting and Server Setup
Security Checklist/Where can you learn more about file permissions?
Security Checklist/Testing and Development
Security Checklist/Joomla! Setup
Security Checklist/Site Administration
Security Checklist/Site Recovery
Security Checklist/You have been hacked or defaced
Security - Before you go live
Security FAQ
Security and Performance FAQs
Security filters for articles
Securing Joomla extensions

SEO

What is Search Engine Optimisation
Making your site Search Engine Friendly
Search Engine Friendly URLs
Using A Sitemap
Using Keywords
Semantic HTML Markup
Linking To Other Sites
Important SEO Points To Remember
Monitoring SEO
Common problems when enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on Apache
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on Hiawatha
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on IIS
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on IIS/IIS6
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on IIS/IIS6/1.0
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on IIS/IIS6/1.5
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on IIS/IIS7
Enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs on Nginx

Smart Search

Smart Search quickstart guide
Smart Search on large sites
Customising the Smart Search results page
Setting up automatic Smart Search indexing
Smart Search Frequently Asked Questions
Smart Search configuration options
Smart Search content change test plan

System

For Administrators
Backup Basics for a Joomla! Web Site
What are the best practices for site backups?
Copying a Joomla website
Copying a website from localhost to a remote host
Database Table Prefix
Monitoring Server Health
Monitoring Site Speed
One click updates for language packs
Purging expired cache files
Top 10 Stupidest Administrator Tricks
Updating PHP
Task Scheduler
Uploading and extracting an archive file with CPanel
Using Caching to Speed Up Your Code

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