Introduction to Joomla!

Get closer to the most advanced CMS

Mihail Semedzhiev

Joomla! Bulgariamihail@lockedideas.c

om@semerdzhiev

Table of Contents

What is Joomla? How to install Joomla? Managing the content Joomla! Extensions How to create template Resources Bonus

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What is Joomla?

What is Joomla!

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Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS)

Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to every one

Joomla! is highly extensible and thousands of extensions (most for free) are available

Joomla! runs on PHP/MySQL

Additional Info Joomla! – All together (from Swahili)

Since 2005 (before was Mambo) Second most popular CMS Current version 2.5 3100+ Government sites over 204 countries (joomlagov.info)

30+ Million downloads 9500 extensions 3% of the web sites are based on Joomla

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How to install Joomla?

How to install Joomla?

Minimum System Requirements:

Web server: Apache (or Microsoft

IIS)

PHP: 5.2.x or higher Database: MySQL version 4.1.x. or

higher

(or MSSQL) 7

How to install Joomla?

Where to install? Locally on your PC (XAMPP) On a server in a company's Intranet Shared hosting VPS Own server

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How to install Joomla?

1. Get the latest version from

joomla.org

2. Extract the package

3. Follow the installation steps

4. Done

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Global configurations

Site settings

SEO settings

System settings

Server settings

Permissions

Text filters10

Managing the content

Articles

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Content → Article Manager → Add New Article

Articles are the main item in Joomla CMS

Title - every Article must have title Alias – automatically generated string for SEF URLs

Category – the folder of the Article Text – body of the article / main part WYSIWYG

Options

Categories

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Administration → Content → Category Manager Many categories as you wish Can be nested categories An article can be related to one of these

categories Every category must have a Title Description – text box for inserting

additional content for the category Options

Menus

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Menus → Menu Manager → Add new Menu

Menus are the main navigation element

You can have many menus as you want

You can create nested menus

Edit menus in Menus manager

Joomla have different type of menus

Users

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Users are edited in “User manager”

Every user have custom settings Users have groups – groups are the holder of the permissions

Joomla have ACL – access control levels

Other specific options

Joomla! Extensions

Components

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Components are the main functionality elements

If Joomla! is the OS, components are the desktop applications

Usually are displayed in the center of main content area. (Depending on the template)

Two parts – Admin and Client side They have special menu types and views.

Joomla! have several core components

Extensions overview

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Modules

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Modules are lightweight and flexible extensions used for page rendering.

These modules are often “boxes” arranged around a component on a typical page.

A well-known example is the login module.

Modules are assigned per menu item

Every module must have “module position”

Joomla have some core modules

Plugins

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Plugins provide functions which are associated with trigger events

Plugins adds specific capabilities to a component

Plugin types: Authentication, Content, Editors-xtd, Editors, Extension, Search, System and User

Plugins are powerful way of extending the functionality of the Joomla!

Templates

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A template controls the overall look and layout of a site

Provides the framework that brings together modules, components, css and js

Templates provide complete separation of content and presentation

Templates are installed like the other extensions

Joomla! has many professional template developers

How to create a template

Joomla!Day 2012

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Freebies

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