You're reading from Joomla! 4 Masterclass A practitioner's guide to building rich and modern websites using the brand-new features of Joomla 4

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238975

Length 338 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Joomla

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Luca Marzo

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Joomla! Out of the Box

2. Chapter 1: A Powerful and Extensible Core FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: How to Manage Content

4. Chapter 3: Advanced Content Management

5. Chapter 4: Exploring the Flexibility of Modules

6. Chapter 5: Building Your Site Structure: the Menu System

7. Chapter 6: Managing Users and Their Permissions

8. Part 2: Advanced Features

9. Chapter 7: SEO at Its Best

10. Chapter 8: One Site, Multiple Languages

11. Chapter 9: Planning Operations with Scheduled Tasks

12. Chapter 10: Tailored Communication with Mail Templates

13. Chapter 11: Command-Line Interface

14. Part 3: Styling and Securing Your Website

15. Chapter 12: Styling Your Website – Templates

16. Chapter 13: Customize Everything with Overrides

17. Chapter 14: Child Templates

18. Chapter 15: Template Frameworks

19. Chapter 16: Advanced Features – Access and Security

20. Part 4: Case Studies

21. Chapter 17: Case Study – A Corporate Website in Joomla

22. Chapter 18: Case Study – Online Academy with Joomla

23. Chapter 19: Case Study – A B&B Booking System with Joomla

24. Index

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What is a template?

A template is a special type of Joomla extension that is used to style a website. It is a package that includes all the files needed to provide a different look to the website: images, CSS files, JavaScript files, and PHP files.

A template may incorporate styling libraries, such as Bootstrap, Tailwind, or other technologies, to provide some common graphic patterns. For example, the Joomla 4 frontend template, Cassiopeia, is based on Bootstrap 5.

Incorporating popular libraries, such as Bootstrap, simplifies the process of building a template, as it can use all the components and assets from the library.

In Joomla, a template has full control of the appearance of a website, defining its layouts, colors, font type, and size, the available module positions and style variations, and the opportunity to customize the template through the backend.

Templates can be installed as a regular Joomla extension and are provided as a .zip file package. Sometimes, template...