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Joomla Customizations

This is simply a documentation of all the changes I've made to core Joomla 1.5.

Joomla 1.5

  • Turned on all 3 SEF?settings
  • Modified global meta data settings

sh404sef

  • Installed php404sef
  • Turned off URL?security in php404sef so I can post pages with the word "script"

Don't show Category as H1 on Articles

You should be able to change this using the global options but it doesn't work for me. I had to make the following change to Components/com_content/views/article/view_html.php

Comment out this line: // $this->params->def(‘page_heading’, JText::_(‘JGLOBAL_ARTICLES’));

Change default sort order in Article Manager

This change makes the Article Manager sort by date, newest at the top:

Edit the file: /administrator/components/com_content/models/articles.php.

At line 94 (in 1.6.4) you'll find the following line: parent::populateState('a.title', 'asc');

To sort on date descending you should change this to: parent::populateState('a.created', 'desc');

Source: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=609300

Increase Logon Timeout

 

Under 'global configuraton' and then under the "system" tab.

Editor

Other Plugins

  • Popular of Late - puts a time limit on the "popular articles" module so that the same articles are not always at the top
  • Xmap - creates a sitemap - I use it to create an "All Articles" page that is linked to on the main menu, making all pages easily searchable by Google (in theory)
  • MosPasswort - password protect individual pages without having to create user accounts