So I've just spent the last bunch of videos talking about modules,
and all of these modules have appeared on the front end of the Web site.
But, Joomla! actually has a whole another set of modules that you haven't even thought about yet.
If you take a look at the page that's right here on the screen, this is in fact a Joomla!
template and inside of the Joomla! template is some content and some modules.
There are actually Administrator modules that appear inside of Joomla! as well.
And I wanted to introduce you to these Joomla!
modules down in the administrator side of things because they can be very handy.
Way back in the beginning of the course I talked about the lack of Joomla!'s
version number showing up anywhere here inside of the Joomla!
administrator interface, and that's kind of inconvenient.
I showed you a workaround for that, if you go under System and you go to
the System Information, you can take a look at what the Joomla! version is,
but you don't see it directly on the screen the way we used to
in previous versions of Joomla!. This actually happens to me... a Joomla!
module that we can turn on and configure. So let's see how that works.
Under Extensions we're still going to go to Module Manager.
But if you look over here on the left side of the screen, we've been filtering
these modules here for the site and also right above this you'll notice
we have tabs for Site and Administrator.
If I either change my Filter to Administrator or click on the Administrator link here,
either way it does the same thing, this shows me all of the administrator
modules that appear in the administrator side of this Web site.
So I have things like Logged-in Users, Popular Articles, and Recently Added Articles
that appear in the position of Cpanel.
And if you go back to your Control Panel you'll see that that is in fact
what's here, the LOGGED-IN USERS, the POPULAR ARTICLES, and the RECENTLY ADDED ARTICLES.
So you can use your reordering abilities to reorder those if you wanted
something to appear further up on the page. Down here it says that there is a Joomla!
version that currently occurs in the footer of this template.
But if we scroll down to the footer, I certainly don't see it there.
So what I'd like to do is change the position of this Joomla Version from footer to Cpanel.
So what I am going to do is click on Joomla Version here and this is going to
give me all of the Basic Options.
What kind of version would I like, would I like the Short version or the Long version?
Would I like to show the word Joomla!
when I'm using the Short version or would I just like to see a number?
Which might be something, if you are customizing this administrator template, maybe you
don't want the word Joomla! to appear anywhere.
This is the standard Advanced Options for any module inside of Joomla!.
So what I am going to do is I am going to change this position from the footer here.
And this is inside of ISIS which is one of the administrator templates,
and I am going to move this to Cpanel, and then I am going to say Save & Close.
When I go back to the Control Panel for my Web site here, my Joomla Version shows
up right here on the very top of the screen as Joomla! 3.0.1,
it's the very first thing I see now.
I love that right there, that's exactly what I want to see.
But some of you may prefer to have this a little bit further down on the page,
because maybe your clients are more interested in what articles have been added
and what are the Popular Articles, so I could rearrange this.
Back under Extensions>Module Manager, you see here that my Joomla Version is listed first.
Switch over to make sure you're using the Ordering column for sorting,
and you know that because the three dot icon here is a dark gray or black instead of
the light gray, and now I can rearrange.
So if I want my Joomla Version to appear at the bottom of the Control Panel,
all I have to do is click and drag and let it go down here so that it will be the
last module on the Control Panel.
And now when I go back to my Control Panel I'll see that Joomla Version when
I scroll down the page, so it's down here at the bottom.
So you might want to take a look at some of those Administrator modules,
make a backup of your site before you go do this just in case you happened to change a
setting on something and you are not sure what you changed.
Feel free to take a look at those Administrator modules and what kind of goodies are there.
You can customize your interface and the information that's displayed here
by taking a look at those Administrator modules.