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I was making a point that Joomla! had many,

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many layers to it and my student said to me, yeah, it's like an onion;

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many, many layers, and it also can make you cry.

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One of the ways Joomla! can make you cry

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is it has so many configuration screens, and sometimes you're not even

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using those configuration screens.

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So they just serve to confuse clients or they offer you options that you're not

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going to use in your Web site and you just like to get rid of things.

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Fortunately, we even have configuration screens for getting rid of configuration screens,

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and I wanted to show you those here in this next video.

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So if we go on up to Content and we go our Article Manager again, and I am just

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going to peek inside of this first article here about the farmers,

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just to take a quick peek at it.

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You'll notice that we have all of these tabs that go across the top.

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So far I've really just focused on this first screen about the article details

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and the title, the category, and the text that we are putting in, in another

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video I covered the images and links down here on the bottom, but there's also

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stuff over here on the side in terms of is it published or not published,

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what languages it is in, we can switch to a tab about Publishing Options where we can

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set a Start and Finish Publishing date.

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If you have a something that's sensitive, for time, you want it on the site

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for a certain period of time and it come down automatically,

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you can schedule that kind of thing.

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You can have these Article Options.

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This is yet another way that you can turn on and off page titles and categories

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and authors and so forth.

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This time on an article by article basis rather than on a menu basis

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or a global basis, and we have a screen here for configuring Metadata

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and our Article Permissions.

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So this is a lot of stuff here, it's nice now that it's behind these tabs.

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So it's a little bit less obvious to clients, but it's quite possible that

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you're never going to change these Publishing Options, and you're never

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ever going to access these Article Options and it's also possible that you

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might never ever want to access the images and links interface down here in the bottom.

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So Joomla! has provided a way that we can turn these things on and off.

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So if I hit my Close button here and I go into my Options item here on the top

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and I go to Editing Layout, I have four options here, Show Publishing

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Options, Show Article Options, and then Front end Images and Links, and

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Administrator Images and Links.

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The Publishing Options refers to that tab that I just showed you inside of an

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article where you were editing.

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The Publishing Options tab lets you determine the start and finish publication dates,

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it lets you set the author for the article, that kind of thing.

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Do you even need that page at all? It's quite possible that in your Joomla! site that you don't.

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You can turn this off globally by setting this to No.

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Likewise, the Article Options is that long, long list of titles and titles that

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are linked and the show Print icons and Email icons and the hits and

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all kinds of things like that.

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Do you even need that on an article by article basis?

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Chances are for this one in particular, probably not, and it really just

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gets your clients into trouble. So you can turn this off globally as well.

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Then finally these last two refer to the bottom of the main article editing screen.

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There is the place where we can set the small version of the picture versus the

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big picture and the set of links that might be associated with a given article.

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We use these in putting together our Solar blog entries.

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You can turn on and off that interface as well.

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By default that interface is turned off on the front end of the Web site

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and what I mean by this is it's possible to edit articles from the front end of the Web site.

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I haven't showed you how to do that yet.

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I will show you how to do that in a much later video, but you could not give

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your clients access to editing those articles on the front end of the Web site

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or adding those particular features by hitting this to No, but allow people to

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have access to that interface by saying Yes on the back end,

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which is the administrator side.

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I am actually going to set all four of these No just for the moment,

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so you can see how this works.

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If I say Save & Close and I go back into the same Farmers installing solar power article,

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I still have the tab for Publishing Options, but when

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I click it, nothing changes.

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Notice that my Article Details screen is still present and what's more the tab

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that said Article Options is now gone entirely.

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So we don't even have the tab available to us anymore for those Article Options.

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Also, on the bottom of the Article Details screen down here on the bottom,

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notice that all of that interface for adding those small versions of pictures

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or big versions of pictures or those links, those are all gone.

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That's a wonderful thing.

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We've just simplified the interface hereby quite a bit and made things

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a lot easier for clients, because there is fewer options.

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There are fewer things to distract them. Now in true Joomla! fashion,

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now that we have configured this to turn these things off globally,

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for all the articles, we can override these interfaces on an article by article basis.

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This tab for Configure Edit Screen will allow you to now say, oh, but for this article,

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because this is a Solar blog article, I do want to show the

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Administrator Images and Links, although I'll leave my other things set to No.

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If I say Save, now when I scroll on down the page here to the bottom I have

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that whole interface down here where I can put in my small images and my big

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images again and configure those, but this interface will now only be available

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in this particular article. I don't really want to do that.

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So I am going to go back here to the Configure Edit Screen and I am going to

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switch this back to Use Global and I'm going to go ahead and say Save & Close

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and I am going to go back to my Article Options and under my Editing Layout tab

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I am going to turn on the Administrator Images and Links.


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I'm using it in the Solar blog right now.

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I'm just going to leave that available to all of the articles on the Web site

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and what I'd do is educate my client that, that interface is only for the Solar blog.

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Don't use it on other parts of the Web site and leave it at that.

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So I am going to go ahead and say Save & Close and now if I take a look at the

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Farmers installing solar power in record numbers article, you'll see that

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I have this interface at the bottom for adding images and links.

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I do not have anything on the Publishing Options tab and I do not have my

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Article Options tab at all, and that is true for any article that we happened to

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look at here in the backend of Joomla!.

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None of those options that I just went through affect the way the Web site will

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appear to the public to somebody who is not logged in and editing an article.

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The options I just showed you pertain only to editing articles and what kind of

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interfaces are available for doing that.