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Practical articles, perspectives, and updates for people building and managing Joomla-powered websites, with an emphasis on simpler publishing, maintainability, and making better decisions about the websites you own.
It is tempting to start building a website by opening the CMS and creating pages, categories, menus, and other content as you need them. That can work for a very small site, but it can also leave y...
There is no single backup schedule that is appropriate for every website. A site that changes only a few times each month has very different recovery requirements from an online store processing or...
Menus are usually associated with navigation. You create a link, place it in a menu, and visitors use it to move from one part of a website to another. Joomla menu items certainly perform this job...
Installing a Joomla template doesn't mean every part of your website has to use the same configuration. A single template can have multiple Template Styles, each storing its own combination of sett...
Joomla categories provide the main editorial structure for articles, but that does not mean every subject, content variation, or future idea needs a category of its own. A category works best when ...
Joomla template overrides give you a way to change the HTML output produced by Joomla or an extension without editing the original files that provide that output. They are one of Joomla's most usef...
Block editors change more than the experience of writing a page. They can also change where layout and presentation decisions are stored, who controls those decisions, and how easily they can be ch...
Content management systems make publishing easier by automatically creating navigation, category listings, archives, filtered views, and other ways to discover content. That flexibility is useful, ...
Navigation helps visitors move efficiently through a website, but it also provides search engines with links they can use to discover pages and understand how different parts of the site are connec...
Internal links connect one page of a website to another page on the same site. They may look like a small editorial detail, but across a growing CMS website they become part of the structure that h...
A website rarely becomes difficult to maintain because of one dramatic event. More often, the change is gradual. Routine updates require more investigation, small changes produce unexpected results...
Keeping a CMS website updated is an important part of maintaining it. Updates fix security vulnerabilities, correct bugs, add or improve features, and help software remain compatible with the techn...