Warning

In this chapter, we are going to do lots of modifications to our site, but some things have to be taken into account before making these changes.

The first thing that you should always do before making any changes is take a backup of your site. You can do this manually or by using an extension like Akeeba backup, which can be found in the JED or at the following link:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-a-security/backup/1606

Having a backup copy is essential to restore a working copy of our site if a mistake is made.

Also, you may be wondering whether, later, if you install a newer version of the extension, you may lose all of the changes made. This can happen; therefore, we have made these modifications after we have finished installing the extensions we need.

But don't worry too much about that. You won't be installing a newer ...