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Joomla! 4 Masterclass

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803238975
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luca Marzo Luca Marzo
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

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 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding a module to your website

Let’s see how to add a module to our website. From the backend of the website, we go to Content Dashboard and then to Site Modules. On this page, we can see all the modules currently installed/configured on the website.

Figure 4.8 – Site modules

Figure 4.8 – Site modules

To create a new module, just click on the New button in the toolbar. We will see the list of available module types, as displayed in the following figure:

Figure 4.9 – Module type selection screen

Figure 4.9 – Module type selection screen

Let’s choose the Custom type and create the module by clicking on the plus sign near the desired card. The custom module creation screen will look like this:

Figure 4.10 – Custom module creation

Figure 4.10 – Custom module creation

The first field to fill out is Title. The main editing area is meant to host the content of the module that can be inserted through the visual editor.

The other options in the Module tab are the following...

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