You're reading from Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition Build, develop, and manage a fully functioning, professional looking, and feature-rich website with the Joomla! CMS

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783981502

Length 476 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Joomla

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Eric Tiggeler

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites FREE CHAPTER

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

A. Keeping the Site Secure

Choosing a web host that meets your security requirements

B. Creating a Multilingual Site

C. Pop Quiz Answers

Index

Time for action – partially hiding content from nonregistered users

Suppose your client wants to offer their site members some exclusive content; anyone registered to the CORBA site can read all about exclusive club meetings. Let's change the settings so that all content shown trough the Activities | Club Meetings menu link is displayed only partly—unless users register. The steps are as follows:

Make sure you're logged in to the backend of the site as Super User. Open the current Activities menu link (Menus | Main Menu) to edit it. The link itself should be visible for all; Status should be Published, and Access should be Public.
Under the Options tab, set Show Unauthorised Links to Yes. This is the step that takes care of the "register to read more" magic. Of all articles that have been assigned Registered status, only the intro text will be displayed. Click on Save & Close to save and close the menu link.
To set the Access level of the desired articles...