Overview
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Learn about the latest features and functionalities of Joomla! 4.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- The flexible platform for website creators
- Restoring the site from a backup using the jump-in files
- Installing Joomla! 4
- A quick tour of the Joomla! interface
- Modifying Global Configuration
- Creating and editing categories for your site
- Creating and editing individual articles
- Exploring the featured article setting
- Adding images and image captions
- Configuring and formatting articles with TinyMCE
- Inserting a read more break in an article
- Creating custom field groups
- Creating and configuring custom fields
- Challenge: Creating and formatting articles
- Solution: Creating and formatting articles
- Understanding and configuring menus
- Linking an article to the menu
- Configuring category blogs
- Reordering menu items
- Creating new menus
- Creating menu aliases and external URLs
- Adding links in articles
- Hiding menu items within the menu
- Challenge: Creating a blog
- Solution: Creating a blog
- Setting configuration options for articles
- Setting menu options
- Comparing page headings, article titles, and page titles
- Challenge: Configuring the homepage
- Solution: Configuring the homepage
- Understanding module positions
- Creating a custom module
- Including a module in an article using {loadposition}
- Challenge: Creating a testimonial module
- Solution: Creating a testimonial module
- Using the contact component
- Using CAPTCHA with contact forms
- Challenge: Creating a contact list
- Solution: Creating a contact list
- Evaluating extensions in the Joomla! Extensions Directory
- Installing JCE (Joomla Content Editor)
- Linking to a PDF with JCE
- Updating extensions and Joomla!
- Changing the look of the site using templates
- Creating new template styles and assigning template styles
- Changing module layout settings for menus
- Adding a banner to the home page
- Changing module layout settings for the home page
- Adjusting template masters with template overrides
- Changing the admin template
- Modifying Dashboards in the admin template
- Language overrides: Changing Joomla!'s default text outputs
- Challenge: Home page customizations
- Solution: Home page customizations
- Introduction to ACL
- Creating a user and assigning groups
- Configuring the login link options
- Creating content for logged in users only
- Workflows: User configuration
- Workflows: Configuring the workflow
- Workflows: Configuring permissions and testing
- Where to learn more
