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  • What is an Uncategorised Article?

    Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 09:14 Author: Administrator
    Most Articles will be assigned to a Section and Category. In many cases, you might not know where you want it to appear so put the Article in the Uncategorized Section/Category. The Articles marked as Uncategorized are handled as static content....

  • Where did the Mambots go?

    Created: Monday, 11 August 2008 03:17 Author: Administrator
    Mambots have been renamed as Plugins. Mambots were introduced in Mambo and offered possibilities to add plug-in logic to your site mainly for the purpose of manipulating content. In Joomla! 1.5, Plugins will now have much broader capabilities than Mambots...

  • How do I install Joomla! 1.5?

    Created: Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:10 Author: Administrator
    Installing of Joomla! 1.5 is pretty easy. We assume you have set-up your Web site, and it is accessible with your browser.Download Joomla! 1.5, unzip it and upload/copy the files into the directory you Web site points to, fire up your browser and enter yo...

  • Where did the Installers go?

    Created: Sunday, 10 August 2008 17:16 Author: Administrator
    The improved Installer can be found under the Extensions Menu. With versions prior to Joomla! 1.5 you needed to select a specific Extension type when you wanted to install it and use the Installer associated with it, with Joomla! 1.5 you just select the E...

  • Is it possible to change A Menu Item's Type?

    Created: Sunday, 10 August 2008 17:15 Author: Administrator
    You indeed can change the Menu Item's Type to whatever you want, even after they have been created. If, for instance, you want to change the Blog Section of a Menu link, go to the Control Panel->Menus Menu->[menuname]->Menu Item Manager and edit ...

  • Where is the Static Content Item?

    Created: Sunday, 10 August 2008 17:13 Author: Administrator
    In Joomla! versions prior to 1.5 there were separate processes for creating a Static Content Item and normal Content Items. The processes have been combined now and whilst both content types are still around they are renamed as Articles for Content Items ...

  • Only one edit window! How do I create "Read more..."?

    Created: Wednesday, 06 August 2008 13:29 Author: Administrator
    This is now implemented by inserting a Read more... tag (the button is located below the editor area) a dotted line appears in the edited text showing the split location for the Read more.... A new Plugin takes care of the rest.It is worth mentioning that...

  • What happened to the locale setting?

    Created: Wednesday, 06 August 2008 10:47 Author: Administrator
    This is now defined in the Language [lang].xml file in the Language metadata settings. If you are having locale problems such as dates do not appear in your language for example, you might want to check/edit the entries in the locale tag. Note that multip...

  • How do I upgrade to Joomla! 1.5 ?

    Created: Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:27 Author: Administrator
    Joomla! 1.5 does not provide an upgrade path from earlier versions. Converting an older site to a Joomla! 1.5 site requires creation of a new empty site using Joomla! 1.5 and then populating the new site with the content from the old site. This migration ...