Brad Markle

In addition to putting your Joomla 3.0 site in offline mode and configuring a custom message, you can toggle whether or not to show any offline message at all. In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we’ll cover the various options that you have when it comes to your offline message. To change your Offline Message settings Read More >

When you set your Joomla 3.0 site to be in offline mode, the following message by default is shown to users: This site is down for maintenance. Please check back again soon. In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we’ll show you how to change this offline message. To change your Joomla 3.0 maintenance mode message: Log Read More >

If you’re making significant changes to your Joomla 3.0 website, you may want to put your website in offline mode. This will allow you to make and test changes to your website, while at the same time preventing the rest of the world from viewing those changes. In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we’ll show you Read More >

Your Site Name in Joomla 3.0 is used in several different places. For example, if you look at your HTML source code, you’ll see your site name listed in the title tag (if you have this setting enabled). If your template is designed to do so, you may also see your site name listed somewhere Read More >

Within Joomla 3.0 you have the option to set a rights meta tag. This setting within Joomla is referred to as Content Rights, and can be found in the Metadata Settings. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use the Content Rights setting in Joomla 3.0. To use a rights meta tag in Joomla Read More >

In Joomla 3.0, you have the option to show / hide your Joomla version number. If you choose to show it, it will show as a meta generator tag, as in: <meta name=”generator” content=”Joomla! – Open Source Content Management – Version 3.0.0_Alpha1″ /> To toggle the showing of your version number in Joomla 3.0: Log Read More >

The Author meta tag allows you to add a meta tag to your Joomla 3.0 pages that specifies who wrote the article. By default, the option is enabled, and adds code similar to the below to your pages: <meta name=”author” content=”Super User” /> To toggle the Show Author Meta Tag setting Log into your Joomla Read More >

The next Joomla 3.0 Metadata setting we will look at is the Robots setting. This setting will allow you to set the meta robots tag, which controls how search engines will crawl and index each of your pages. Example meta robots tag: <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow” /> To change your Robots settings in Joomla 3.0 Read More >

In the early days of the internet, search engines heavily relied on meta keywords and other meta settings in order to learn what a particular website was about. As the years have gone by, search engines have become more intelligent and instead use different methods to identify the subject matter of a website. While meta Read More >

Your site’s meta description is a short description about your website set within your HTML head tag. It’s often used by search engines when they would like to show a brief description about a particular website / page. In this tutorial, we’ll show how to adjust your Joomla 3.0 site meta description. To change your Read More >

Unicode Aliases is the next Joomla 3.0 SEO Setting that we are reviewing. This setting controls how non-latin characters are handled in your aliases, whether they are saved or converted to a date and time. To adjust Unicode Alias settings in Joomla 3.0: Log into your Joomla 3.0 Dashboard In the left menu, under SYSTEM Read More >

The next Joomla 3.0 SEO Setting we will look at is Include Site Name in Page Titles. This setting will allow you to adjust whether or not your Site Name is included in your site’s title.   Many users like to include their website’s name in all of their title tags. For example, in the Read More >

  As we continue to review the SEO settings in Joomla 3.0, the next option we get to is Use URL rewriting. In our testing, we noticed that when the Use URL rewriting option was enabled, index.php was removed from our URLs. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to use this Use URL rewriting Read More >

Thus far in our Joomla 3.0 testing, we have created a new article and published it to the front page. When we visit this new article in our browser, the url becomes: https://domain.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/1-this-is-my-first-test-article As we set the title of the article to, “This is my first test article“, Joomla used the article’s title as the Read More >

After you have creating your first article, you can set it as a featured article so you can see it on your Joomla 3.0 homepage. The steps below will show you how to set an article as featured after you have already published, but you can just as easily make this change while you are Read More >

In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the steps for writing a new article in Joomla 3.0. There are many settings you can configure for your new content, however we’re only going to review the minimum requirements. To create a new article in Joomla 3.0: Log into your Joomla 3.0 dashboard From here, you have Read More >