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8 Joomla tips to make your life easier

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Joomla is charged with many options to make your website 
flexible and powerful. Those features are ready to cover specific needs,
 integrate new capabilities and make the content much easier to manage.<br />
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In this post I will share with you some tips that are worth taking the time to learn.</div>
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Speed up your website</h2>
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<img alt="joomla speed up" src="http://extensionscdn.joomla.org/images/JED-Blog/joomla-tips-to-make-your-life-easier/1.jpg?1427434974" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /></div>
Improving the speed is part of the list of basic requirements from 
any developer. We are talking about the time a website can take to load.<br />
This result depends on many factors, such as number of images, CSS 
files, javascript files, and other files that a site loads for every 
page.<br />
Try the following tip to enable cache and page compression:<br />
Go to <b>System</b> > <b>Global configuration</b> > <b>System</b> > <b>Cache</b>: ON (start with Conservative caching then try Progressive)<br />
<b>System</b> > <b>Global configuration</b> > <b>Server</b> > <b>Gzip Page Compression</b>: yes<br />
Save and close<br />
The improvement is not specific for all the sites; but is possible to make your site load 50% faster.<br />
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Protostar with full page width layout</h2>
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<img alt="joomla protostar full width" src="http://extensionscdn.joomla.org/images/JED-Blog/joomla-tips-to-make-your-life-easier/2.jpg?1427435068" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /></div>
By default, the protostar template comes with a boxed layout. To use the full width version, go to:<br />
<b>Extensions</b> > <b>Template manager</b> > <b>Protostar - default</b> > <b>Advanced</b> > <b>Fluid Layout</b>: fluid<br />
Save and close<br />
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Header tag for module titles</h2>
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<img alt="joomla module title" src="http://extensionscdn.joomla.org/images/JED-Blog/joomla-tips-to-make-your-life-easier/3.jpg?1427435240" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /></div>
To change the tag that wraps the module title:<br />
<b>Extensions</b> > <b>Module manager</b> > <b>Your module</b> > <b>Advanced</b> > <b>Header tag</b>. Choose: <i>h1</i>, <i>h2</i>, <i>h2</i>, <i>h4</i>, <i>h5</i>, <i>h6</i>, <i>p</i> or <i>div</i>.<br />
Save and close<br />
Note: this feature may work or not depending on the template you are using.<br />
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Save javascript in Custom HTML modules</h2>
Do you want to include javascript or iframe tags without getting stripped out after saving? Try this:<br />
<b>System</b> > <b>Global configuration</b> > <b>Default Editor</b>: CodeMirror or None<br />
Save and close<br />
Then edit your module from <b>Extensions</b> > <b>Module manager</b> > <b>Your custom HTML module</b>.<br />
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Language overrides</h2>
If you need to customize the text from buttons or labels, look to the language manager:<br />
<b>Extensions</b> > <b>Language manager</b> > <b>Overrides</b> > <b>New</b><br />
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<li>In the search form type the text you want to translate, for example: “Read more”</li>
<li>Click in the <b>search</b> button</li>
<li>Locate the string you want to customize from the results</li>
<li>In the left side of the screen edit the <b>Text</b> field</li>
<li>Save and close</li>
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<img alt="joomla language overrides" src="http://extensionscdn.joomla.org/images/JED-Blog/joomla-tips-to-make-your-life-easier/4.jpg?1427435462" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /></div>
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Versions: Ctrl + Z for articles</h2>
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<img alt="joomla versions" src="http://extensionscdn.joomla.org/images/JED-Blog/joomla-tips-to-make-your-life-easier/5.jpg?1427435660" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /></div>
Joomla 3 allows to switch back to a previous version of an article.<br />
<b>Content</b> > <b>Article manager</b> > <b>Your article</b> > <b>Versions</b> (button on top)<br />
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<li>Check one of the available versions</li>
<li>Click restore</li>
<li>Save and close</li>
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Enable menu editing in frontend</h2>
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<img alt="joomla menu item edit frontend" src="http://extensionscdn.joomla.org/images/JED-Blog/joomla-tips-to-make-your-life-easier/6.jpg?1427435776" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);" /></div>
Edit your menu items starting from the public site:<br />
<b>System</b> > <b>Global configuration</b> > <b>Mouse-over Edit Icons for</b>: modules & menus<br />
Save and close<br />
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<li>Login in your frontend with a super user account.</li>
<li>Place the cursor over the menu item, for example: “Home”.</li>
<li>Click on the pencil icon to be redirected to the edit page in backend.</li>
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Open source is a development model about sharing and innovation.
 Joomla is based on that philosophy; that’s one of the reasons of its 
success.<br />
In this post you will discover 6 reasons that answer why Joomla is the best software to build websites.<br />
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#1. Joomla is free</h3>
The 3 most popular CMS are free. This is the only reason on the list that is not exclusive to this software.<br />
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<br />#2. Joomla already include the common features</h3>
Once you install Joomla, your website will be ready to support SEO, contact forms, RSS, blog, media, multi language, etc.<br />
Experienced users may need 1 minute to do the installation and 45 
minutes to publish the content. That means a ready working website in 
less than 1 hour.<br />
Which other platform makes possible that performance for free?<br />
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<br />#3. Joomla Extensions Directory</h3>
Do you want to build a big website with features that are not included in the default installation?<br />
Do a quick search in the <a href="https://extensions.joomla.org/">Joomla Extensions Directory</a> (aka JED) to find the right piece of software to match your needs.<br />
<ul>
<li>Want to build an ecommerce site? - Got it!</li>
<li>A membership site? - Got it!</li>
<li>A gallery site? - Got it!</li>
<li>A directory site? - Got it!</li>
<li>Do you need an extension to do backups? - Got it!</li>
<li>An extension to increase security? - Got it!</li>
<li>An extension that does nothing? - Got it! wait.. what??</li>
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Those are a few examples that proves the JED will support you when the core is not enough.<br />
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<br />#4. Joomla is supported by volunteers</h3>
The Open Source Matters; is an honest effort to create software to share with the world.<br />
The code is build and maintained by people who voluntarily donate 
their time, skills and knowledge. The passion volunteers print by 
contributing with code, design, support, blogging, training, marketing 
is very positive!<br />
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The power of a community is based on the people who support it.</blockquote>
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<br />#5. Joomla is international</h3>
You can build websites not only in english, but you can do so in 
Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Catalan, French, etc. The list of 
available languages is huge; there is no better alternative <i>[period]</i><br />
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<br />#6. Joomla is well coded</h3>
The framework behind is well organised to keep every layer in place 
by implementing the Model View Controller standard (MVC), having that 
level of separation is important when you need to create your own 
extensions or customize the design.<br />
For example:<br />
modify the code for the view by doing <a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/blog/item/template-overrides-for-third-party-extensions" target="_blank">template overrides</a> without touching the logic. That means flexibility in a safe way.<br />
About extensions, which basically are addons to extend the functionality. You have access to 3 types:<br />
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<li><b>Components.</b> Create and manage the main content of a page.</li>
<li><b>Modules.</b> Create and manage blocks of content around the component.</li>
<li><b>Plugins.</b> Add extra features to components and modules.</li>
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