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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from  Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Pages 476 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Eric Tiggeler Eric Tiggeler
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running 3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla! 4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour 5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively 6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles 7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus 9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute 10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla! 11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates 12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques Keeping the Site Secure Creating a Multilingual Site Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – removing or replacing default texts


Let's say we want to remove the word Details that's displayed with every article. After all, it takes up valuable space on the screen and doesn't really convey useful information.

  1. In the Joomla backend, navigate to Extensions | Language Manager and in the menu, click on Overrides. Then, click on New. In the Search text you want to change section, enter the word or words you're looking for (in this case, details) and click on Search. Joomla will display all matches. In this case, the first hit is the one we're looking for as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Click on the search result (in this case, COM_CONTENT_ARTICLE_INFO Details). It's automatically displayed in the Create a New Override section on the left-hand side of the screen. In the Text box, enter the text you want to replace the current text with. In this case, we want to display no text at all, so keep the text box empty.

  3. Click on Save & Close. You're done! Check the frontend...

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