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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Length 476 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 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 B. Creating a Multilingual Site C. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Restoring a previous version of an article


When adding or revising content in an article, you might want to reverse your changes and return to a previous version of an article; maybe because you've deleted some of the article text and accidentally saved the new version, thus throwing away all content the article previously contained, or maybe because you decide you want to go back to the brilliant phrasing you used in an earlier version of the same article.

From Joomla 3.2 onwards, a powerful new feature was added: content version history. You can track older versions of articles, compare changes, and restore articles as required. Let's find out what this feature has to offer you.

  1. Go to Content | Article Manager. Open the Mission Statement article. Up to now, there's just one version of this article, as you've saved it once after writing it.

  2. We'll make a second, revised version of the article. In the editor screen, delete the first two sentences and replace them. In this example, I've replaced...

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