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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A webmaster has the chance to instruct search engines on what they should and should not index on a specific website. These instructions are provided through a simple text file called robots.txt that should be placed in the website root folder.

This file generally contains a set of rules that allow or disallow indexing specific pages or sections of a website. For example, it is advisable to disable indexing of the backend section of the website; or, in certain circumstances, it can be useful to disable indexing of images or a specific type of file (such as PDFs). Or you may want to index a specific section of the website. All these commands can be provided through the robots.txt file.

Joomla comes with a default robots.txt file out of the box that includes the following content:

# If the Joomla site is installed within a folder
# eg www.example.com/joomla/ then the robots.txt file
# MUST be moved to the site root
# eg www.example.com/robots.txt
# AND the...