Organizing content in Joomla - deleting and creating articles in the admin area, as well as setting parameters for all materials. Organizing content in Joomla - deleting and creating articles in the admin panel, as well as setting parameters for all materials Plugin JL No D

Hello dear readers! As in any business, the time comes to put things in order. Today we will clean up the trash bin on joomla 3. And also figure out how to remove unnecessary extensions from a site running on the joomla 3 engine.

There is nothing difficult in emptying the trash and removing unnecessary extensions. But, a beginner joomla 3 user can really have difficulties. Creating my first site, I also asked myself this question. And today I will try to explain it to you as clearly as possible. So let's get started!

Emptying trash in joomla 3

To empty the trash, you need fill it in first. For example, I will delete the material, and only then, I will empty the basket itself. Categories, plugins, modules, etc. are removed in the same way.

1. To delete a material, you need to go to the material manager from the control panel.

2. Next, select the material that you want to delete. And press the button "Add to cart". After that, the material is in the basket.

3. In order to remove this material from the basket, again, you need to go to the material manager. And in the column "state selection", select the sub-item "In the basket". That is, while in the material manager, you can select a state.

If you select "Unpublished", you will be presented with unpublished content. And if you select the "In basket" state, the content in the basket will naturally open.

4. Here you need to select the material and click the "Empty Trash" button.

As you can see, everything is simple, after these steps, the cart is empty. Likewise, it cleans up in the manager of modules, plugins, etc.

Removing joomla 3 extensions... If materials and categories are in joomla, you have to first delete them in the trash, and then empty it. Then extensions, such as modules, templates, plugins, can be removed immediately. Now I will explain how to do this. And for example, I will delete the module.

1. Go to: Extensions> Extension Manager.

3. Now, select the checkbox for the module you want to remove. We press uninstall, after which there is a complete removal. As you can see, everything is simple here too.

Now you know, not only where to find and empty the trash in joomla 3, but also how to remove extensions right away. I hope the article was useful, if you have any questions, ask in the comments. And most importantly, don't forget to subscribe to blog updates.

The CNC team is responsible for optimizing the redirection of URLs ("url") of site page addresses for search engines, in simple terms, the SEF setting (CNC) rebuilds links to pages into readable links, both for users and for search engines. It is no secret that search engines currently take into account the name of URLs in search results and when indexing site pages, therefore, many addresses are written in transliteration (transliteration), the Russian word is written in Latin letters.

Remove id (numbers) from URL pages in joomla 2.5.x / 3.x.x

Ways to remove ID from page URLs:

install plugin ARTIO JoomSEF or SH404SEF

The first method of removing page and category identifiers by installing special extensions is quite convenient, but it has one important negative detail, SEF (CNC) components quite noticeably increase the load on the server, therefore this method is used extremely rarely and in extreme cases, when without additional modules or plugins impossible to dispense with. That is, a large number of installed plugins on the Joomla platform increase the site load time, which negatively affects the attitude of users and search engines to the site (especially for Google).

The second method adds an additional setting to the admin panel, an additional choice, show page IDs or hide. With this method, negative consequences are also possible in the form of the appearance of a 404 error (for example, with categories) and it will be necessary to make additional changes to the configuration files. But after making all the changes, the site will work normally and without identification numbers in the links.

The third method is the most convenient and simple. Replace one configuration file with another, or write additional command lines. The downside of this method is that the file is automatically replaced when the Joomla version is updated, otherwise there is no effect on the site's performance. When updating the CMS version, remember this file (router.php) and save it under a different name, after updating, just replace the original PHP file.

Good day to all, if you are reading this article, it means that you, like many novice web developers, have a completely legitimate question - how to deal with duplicate pages in Joomla.

In this article I will try to answer this question. To begin with, let's talk about what threatens the appearance of duplicate pages on the site, then we will look at ready-made solutions to combat duplicates and finally we will analyze alternative ways to deal with duplicate pages.

Why get rid of duplicate pages?

It's no secret that Joomla, like any other content management system, in the course of its work creates identical pages available at different site addresses - duplicates. For visitors to your site, these very pages are harmless, they may not even know about their existence.

However, duplicates, harmless for visitors, can significantly affect the position of the site in the search results. Why is this happening?

Let's imagine a situation - you have written several unique materials and published them on your website. Search robots have indexed them, everything is fine, but after a while the search robot finds duplicates of these pages. The search robot does not understand that this is a double, for him these are two completely different pages, as a result, the initially unique material is no longer such.

As a result of the appearance on the site of a large number of identical pages (duplicates), the position of the site in the search results can be severely "sagged". That is why it is worth getting rid of duplicate pages as soon as possible.

Why do duplicates appear?

Duplicates in CMS Joomla appear as a result of installing additional extensions. But this is far from the only reason for their formation.

An equally common reason for the formation of duplicate pages is the poorly thought-out structure of the site. How can this be related, you ask? It's very simple - you have created several categories on the site that have one parent category, and you have placed materials in these categories. Inside the materials, you make links to previously created materials and so on. Take a look at the screenshot for an example:

If you do not create a menu for categories, then the page address may look like this:

Http: //joom4all..php? Option = com_content & view = article & id = 38 & catid = 10

The address is far from perfect and you wanted to get rid of the numbers in the address bar. To do this, you create menu items for categories and material. After that, the address turned out to be more attractive:

Http: // site / sites-creation / basics / intro

And everything would be fine, but the old page addresses have not gone anywhere, they remained as duplicates. As a result, the same page can have several addresses at once:

Http: // site / 32-sites-creation / 10-basics / 38-intro http: // site / 32-sites-creation / basics / intro http: //joom4all..php? Option = com_content & view = article & id = 38 & catid = 10

Not a pleasant situation is it, besides, search robots consider all these pages to be completely different.

Ways to deal with duplicate pages

Of course, it is best to avoid the appearance of duplicate pages at the initial stage - to think over the structure of the site in advance, create the necessary categories and menu items. But as practice shows, not everyone does this, and over time the question arises of how to remove duplicates from the search results.

There are several options for dealing with duplicates:

Using custom extensions
Robots.txt file
Redirect 301 in htaccess file
Use the Webmaster's panel to remove unnecessary addresses
Redirect component

JL No Doubles plugin to deal with page duplicates

The easiest and at the same time enough an effective way to deal with duplicate pages it's using extensions. One such extension is JL No Doubles plugin.

The plugin is very lightweight and doesn't need any special settings. All you need to do is download this plugin, install and enable it. He will do the rest of the work on his own.

JL No Doubles plugin removes duplicate pages in more than twenty components, including the com_content component. You can customize the output of a 404 error or a 301 redirect to the correct page on the site. The plugin settings page looks like this:

There are only five parameters for configuring the plugin:

License key- to activate the plug-in with the components k2, Virtuemart, Zoo.
Multiplicity of limits- setting for categories of materials Joomla. You can set up a redirect when generating links like / advanced? Start = 3. All you need to do is indicate the number of materials displayed in the category.
Use 301 redirects- you can enable the ability to use a redirect to the correct page or (if set to "no") generate a 404 error. If your site has existed for a long time and other sites link to its pages, then I recommend setting a redirect so as not to lose page weight.
Alias- a setting that substitutes an alias for links of the form component / content / article (home by default).
Stop words- these are lines found in the page address that should not be processed.

With the basic settings sorted out, now let's go to the "Components" tab:

On this tab, select the components that are used on the site and are available for indexing. The com_content component is already selected by default. You should not select all possible components, especially if you do not use them, this will create unnecessary load on your site.

Using the Robots.txt File

As great as the page redirection plugin is, you can't get rid of all the duplicates. In this case, you can prevent search robots from indexing certain pages of the site, in other words, close access to them.

We have already talked about all the intricacies of setting up the Robots.txt file in this article. Briefly, I will just say that there is a directive to close part of your robot from the "eyes" of the robot Disallow .

301 redirect and htaccess file

Another common way to deal with duplicates is to set up a redirect, in other words a 301 redirect to the correct page. This can be done in the file “ .htaccess ».

To create a redirect, you need to use the RewriteRule directive, but you need to make sure that the mod_rewrite module is enabled on the hosting.

Php to the site page, for this in the ".htaccess" file after the RewriteEngine On directive, write the following line:

RewriteRule http: //site/index.php$ http: // site

We discussed the work with the ".htaccess" file in more detail in this article.

Redirect component

Quite useful and at the same time built-in component in Joomla 3, which allows you to manually configure page redirection. This component uses a special plugin for its work, which is disabled by default.

Initially, you need to enable the plugin, since there is no need to look for it among others, because after going to the "Components" -> "Redirect" page, you will receive a message that you need to enable the plugin and a link to activate it.

After the plugin is enabled, you can create a redirect by specifying the start (old) and end (new) page addresses:

This method is good when there are not too many duplicate pages.

Let's summarize

In conclusion, I want to say that although Joomla is famous for creating duplicate pages, there are many ways to get rid of them. Which of the ways is the best you can decide for yourself, but I can say that an integrated approach to solving this problem will be preferable. And it's worth starting with the right approach to creating a site structure.

In addition, it is worth thinking about how to get rid of index.php in the site address bar, this will also help to reduce the number of duplicate pages.

Hello. In this article, we will clean up the Joomla site from demo data, cache, unnecessary plugins, modules, components, extensions and garbage in the basket and search results. For these works in the administrative panel of the site, no additional extensions are needed. All work is carried out with CMS Joomla tools.

How to clear demo data

Demo data can get to the site only one way, when installing Joomla, and then if you ticked the "Install demo data" checkbox. It is not necessary to install demodata, but if it happens, you need to delete it. You can do this immediately or after reading them. In general, demodata is needed to get acquainted with the device and structure of the Joomla site. They include a variety of information, including links to third-party resources that are definitely not needed.

Demod data is located in all units of the site content: in articles, sections, menus, modules. And also in system components: banners, contacts, news feeds, links.

Cleaning up a Joomla site, general principle

The general principle of data deletion is not complicated.

Go to the desired component or content manager;
Select the checkboxes of the demo material to be removed;
Send them to the basket;
Next, filter the data by "Select state" → "In basket" and empty the basket.

I'll show you examples of deleting various data:

Remove menu and remove menu item

Empty basket menu

Delete material, category, featured materials

Remove banner, banner category, banner clients

Empty Banner Trash

Remove module

Empty Modules Trash

Delete users

How to clear site cache

If you have installed any caching of site data, then after changing the site settings or adding new content, you need to clear the site cache.

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The site cache is cleared on the tab: System -> Clear cache... You can clear the cache directly in the site directory. To do this, delete all files in the directory cache site, with the exception of the index.html file.

Note: The button for clearing the cache is present on the system update page and on the Extension Manager → Control page. True, this button is called "Refresh cache".

How to remove unnecessary extensions

Unnecessary extensions are removed on the tab Extension manager -> Manage... Select the extension and press the "Uninstall" button.

Note: Extensions of type system are blocked from deletion. The lock "hangs" on them.

How to remove traces of uninstalled extensions

After removing some extensions, "traces" of them remain. It can be both extension directories and tables in the database.

Extension directories are deleted via FTP connection, by the name of the extension (extension directory) from the root folder of the site and directories: components, modules, plugins, and also, from directories administrator / components, administrator / modules, administrator / plugins.

How to clean your Joomla site trash can

The Joomla Trash Bin is NOT a directory... If you put anything (article, menu, category, module, link, news feed, banner, etc.) into the trash, it is assigned a Trash state. The data in the basket can be restored (photo below)... If a material is removed from the trash can, "Empty Trash", it is deleted permanently.

Why empty your shopping cart?

Again, any site material from the basket can be restored. This means that the name, alias and other parameters remain behind the material. You will not be able to create another material with the same name (alias) until you delete the material from the basket. For example, you created a menu item: Nature, then removed it to the trash. Then we decided to create a menu item with the same name again: it won't work, the alias parameter is already taken and to free alias, you need to empty the Menu trash.

Clearing search results

By default, the search component is enabled in the system and the smart site search is disabled. The collection of statistics for search results is also enabled (General Settings-Search tab). To clear the search results, go to the Criticals >>> Search tab and use the "Reset search results" button to clear the search.

Hello dear readers of the blog site. Today we will continue our series of tutorials on Joomla.

Today's post is about organizing, presenting, and managing the site's content (content). We will also take a closer look at the nuances of deleting sections, categories and materials, as well as study in detail the possible parameter settings that can be made when adding a new material.

Content structure and hierarchy in Joomla

Organization and display of content on project pages is carried out using components that are. To work with articles, the built-in component for working with content is used. True, access to its settings is somewhat different from the usual one and for this you will need to select from the top menu not the "Components" item, but the "Materials" item.

It allows you to organize articles into sections and categories, or leave them unclassified. There are also other components in Joomla that are capable of displaying their content on site pages.

This is, for example, the default built-in contact or weblink list component. You can also use third-party extensions, for example, which is used to organize all kinds of photo galleries. You will find a detailed publication on this fascinating process at the link provided.

Content display is also possible with the help of modules that display their content along the periphery of the main part of the page. In this article, we will take a closer look at the output methods using the built-in component for working with articles.

The texts of articles are stored in a database, and not in folders on the hosting hard drive. This organization allows you to very quickly reorganize content in Joomla. Instead of moving files with texts from one directory to another, it is enough to set new attributes for the article and it will instantly be assigned to another section and category.

As I mentioned earlier, the CMS does not store pages as files with the ".HTML" extension, as was done earlier in static sites. Joomla generates a web page the moment you click on a link, which makes it easy to modify the viewed documents by changing the links in the menu. The content itself will remain unchanged.

In the simplest case, a link from the menu can open one single article from the list of those that you have already added to. But it will also be possible to organize the output to the web page of the contents of an entire category or section (a list of all the materials contained in them in one form or another).

And in this case, you, too, will only need to follow the link from the menu. You can customize what exactly will be displayed when you click on a link in the menu in the admin panel by selecting the option you need. But we'll talk about this a little later.

The easiest way to organize your content is to use unclassified articles that will not belong to any sections or categories. This method can be relevant and in demand when creating a business card site on Joomla, for example, when a hierarchical organization is simply unnecessary and unnecessary.

At the same time, it will be possible to hang a separate article for each menu link by creating items in the admin panel called "Standard Material Template". In this case, you will spend the minimum amount of time to create a website, because you don't have to deal with all the subtleties and output methods. You just have to write a few articles and hang each of them on a link in the menu. That's all - we can assume that the business card has been created.

But it will be convenient and relevant only if there are no more than a dozen articles. And if there are more of them and you plan to add them over time, then you cannot do without a hierarchical organization of content. For these purposes, there are sections and categories (two-level hierarchy), over which it will be possible to scatter both existing materials and those that will be added over time.

The top level of the hierarchy is the sections into which it will not be possible to directly place content (materials). To place articles, there are already categories, which in turn must necessarily belong to some section. Simply put, the sections contain only categories within themselves, while the categories already contain articles (content).

The hierarchy will look something like this:

The best option will be when you think over the structure of the sections and the categories nested in them in advance. This will be much easier than transferring a bunch of materials between them later. I have already considered the nesting scheme in some detail, so I will not repeat it. There I also talked about their creation and settings.

Now I want to dwell on the very process of filling the site with content. Everything seems to be simple here - fill in the texts in a visual editor, insert pictures and save the result. But at first there may be slight difficulties and misunderstanding of how to do this or that action. After all, Joomla does not have a 100% intuitive interface, which means there will be work for me.

Removing sections, categories and materials in the admin panel

But before you start learning how to create content, I suggest you learn how to delete it correctly. Here, again, there is nothing tricky and complicated, but there are nuances that may arise in this case. Your content may appear on a new project for the reason that when using the engine, for example, you did not uncheck the box prescribing the addition of demo data.

They, of course, will allow you to visually see all the capabilities of the engine for work and content management. You will see actually placed in the positions for your modules, look at the organization of materials in the Joomla admin panel and finally, ripe to start adding your own articles, categories and sections, but for this you will need to delete all demo data.

If the engine is installed, along with demo materials, many different sections, categories and articles are created that you will not need in the future. They will need to be removed. It seems to be nothing complicated, but you need to know a few points that can get in the way.

First, the deletion must start from the very bottom of the hierarchy, i.e. from articles. For it will not be possible to delete a category in which there are articles and it will not be possible to delete a section in which there are categories.

Secondly, the article may be blocked and you will have to reset the locks to delete it. Well, besides this, you need to know that when they are removed from the manager, they will not be completely erased, but will go to the basket, from which they will also need to be removed. But first things first.

To delete articles in Joomla, you will need to select "Materials" - "Materials Manager" from the top menu in the admin panel. In the window that opens, you can use filters to display only articles of a specific section or a specific category.

If you see a lock icon in this list next to any publication instead of a radio button, it means that it is not currently being edited. Those. a window with a page for editing this article is open in the browser. Or you closed it, but forgot to click the "Close" or "Save" button on the edit page. Therefore, it is considered open and cannot be deleted from the Joomla database.

In this case, in order for the blocked publication to be deleted, you will have to select the "Tools" - "Reset locks" items from the top menu in the admin panel. After that, all materials will be unlocked and can be deleted:

In the material manager, you can select individual of them for deletion by checking the box next to them, or delete a whole batch at once. You can also use the filter to display materials only for a specific section or category, and then select the "All" option at the very bottom of the list in the "Number of rows" area:

Now you just have to put a tick in the topmost field of the column adjacent to the name, and click on the "Add to cart" button located at the top of the window. All selected articles will be transferred to the trash:

To permanently delete them, you need to select in the admin panel from the top menu the items "Materials" - "Trash" and in the window that opens, select all the articles that are there, and then click on the "Delete" button located at the top of the window:

Everything is done with the materials, now you just have to go in turn to the managers of categories and sections (from the top menu of the admin panel) and delete all unnecessary categories that no longer have articles, and then unnecessary sections that no longer have categories.

Well, we learned how to remove content from Joomla, now is the time to learn how to create it. As you know, it is easier to destroy than to build. I will not talk about creating the structure of sections and categories, because I had a whole article devoted to this (the link to which is given just above), and I will go straight to adding new material.

Adding and distributing content in Joomla

To do this, you will need to select the items "Materials" - "Manager" from the top menu of the admin panel. A window already familiar to us will open, where the titles of all articles available on your site will be displayed. If you have just deleted all demo data, then this list will be empty. Let's go over the toolbar of the Material Editor window and consider the purpose of the buttons available there:

The first two buttons "From archive" and "To archive" are used for unpacking articles from the archive and for placing them in the archive. The very rarely used feature of working with archives, in my opinion, is practically useless and unnecessary in work.

The buttons "Show" and "Hide" allow for mass publication (output of materials to the site pages) or mass unpublishing. To do this, you will need to put a checkmark in front of those articles to which you want to apply this action, and then click on one of these buttons.

You can customize the output of materials in relation to individual articles in the list by clicking on the red cross or green checkmark in its line:

The "Move" button allows you to move the selected materials (opposite which you will check the boxes) to another category or section in Joomla. The "Copy" button allows you to copy them only. "To the basket" allows you to move the selected materials to the basket, from which they can then be restored or permanently deleted.

"Edit" allows you to open the selected article for editing (equivalent to clicking on the title of the article in the manager's list). "Create" allows you to open a window for adding new material, where you can write the text of your article.

The "Options" button allows you to set the default settings for all materials. They will be used by default for all new materials that you add to Joomla in the future, as well as for those articles that you have already added:

You will be able to change almost the same settings for materials (with the exception of some) when writing or editing each individual article (read more about this at the end). Of course, it is much more convenient to set the desired default settings, and when writing articles, change them only as necessary, if they are not suitable for this particular publication.

Creating a new article in the Joomla admin panel

To add a new material, we will need to use the "Create" button. As a result, a window will open allowing you to enter its text and make various settings for it:

You will have to fill in the "Title" field, where you need to enter the desired name, which will subsequently be displayed on the site pages. The "Nickname" field should be filled in if you. There you will need to enter in Latin letters without spaces, in fact, a piece of the future URL (address) of the page, if it will be displayed separately via a link from the menu.

If you use third-party components for organizing CNC, you will not need to fill in the "Alias" field. I already wrote. By the way, this component will also help you create a proper 404 error page, which is also welcome.

For a new article, you need to select a section and category in the appropriate fields. If you wish, you can make it not belong to any of them, i.e. not classified (can be used later to create so-called static pages). To do this, in the "Section" and "Category" fields, select the "Not specified" option.

A check mark in the "Published" field will mean that after saving it will be immediately published and may appear on the site pages if a corresponding menu item is created to display it. This publication can be displayed, for example, as part of a category for which you have created a corresponding menu item (in the form of a Blog or a List).

For example, by creating a "News" menu item of the "Category Blog" type and adding a new article to it, this material will be available on the site when you click on the "News" link in the menu of your project. The most difficult thing for a beginner to understand is that there are no pages in Joomla as in a static website, and all the content (content) that you add in the admin area is stored in the database. On the website, however, content is only displayed when linked from the menu.

Thus, you must first add content and then create links to it in the website menu. They determine not only what should be displayed on the page, but also how the content should be positioned. But we are already running a little ahead and we will need to return to creating new material in the Joomla admin panel.

In the upper part of the window there is one more field "On the main", where by default the checkbox in the "No" position is active. This means that this article will not appear on the home page of your site.

All publications, when creating or editing which you put a tick in the "Yes" box of this field, will be displayed on the main page in the form of a blog. You can manage the articles displayed on the main page by selecting "Materials" - "Main Manager" from the top menu of the admin panel.

In the main part of the window for adding new material, you can enter the text of a future article, using the capabilities of the visual editor built into Joomla. I personally prefer to use another visual editor - JCE. To learn how to install JCE and make it the default editor, follow the link just above.

Basically, working in a visual editor is similar to working in a text Word, with the exception that in Joomla you sometimes still have to go directly to editing the HTML code (there is such a button "HTML" on the toolbar of the default editor).

Your ability to understand and make changes to the HTML code of the article will help you quickly and easily resolve any quirks of the visual editor. Therefore, if necessary, I advise you to familiarize yourself with the content of the heading of my blog "".

Personally, for the most part, I do not use the visual editor at all, because at first I just practiced using HTML code in practice, and then I got used to using only it. But this is already a matter of taste and personal preference. We will assume that with the creation of the text of the article and adding to it, if necessary, as well as images, etc. things you will figure out for yourself.

Settings (parameters) that can be set when adding an article

Let's take a look at the settings for the new material that we can make using the three tabs from the right pane of the window. The first one is called "Parameters - Articles" and on it you can select in the "Author" field the user who will be considered its author.

In the "Pseudonym" field, you can enter a pseudonym under which this material will be published, if you do not want to show the real name of the author. Authorship information will be displayed at the top of it, but only if you set it in the settings for this material, but we'll talk about this a little below.

In the "Access" field, you can select the group of users who will be able to see this article (either all, or only registered users, or only administrators). In the field "Date of creation" you can specify the date of creation and it will be displayed on the page with the article, unless it is prohibited in the settings for this material.

In the "Published" field, you can enter, if necessary, the date of postponed publication. In this case, after you save this article, it will appear on the site only with the onset of the date and time you specified in this field.

Thus, before leaving on vacation, you can add a lot of materials at once in the Joomla admin panel, but set up their sequential publication at intervals of a day and thereby create the appearance of your presence. By default, the current date and time will be registered there.

In the "Expires" field, you can set the date of removal of this article from publication. This may be necessary, for example, when carrying out a one-time promotion, after which it will no longer be needed. By default, the option "never" is selected in this field, which means that this material can only be removed from publication manually. In this and in the previous field, to select the date, you will need to click on the calendar icon located on the right.

Advanced settings for articles (materials) in Joomla

On the "Options - Advanced" tab, there are those settings of materials that will be used only when this article is fully displayed on the site (for example, when a visitor clicks on the link "More" at the bottom of the article announcement when displaying a category blog in Joomla). Often, very few people change these advanced parameters. either do not know how to do this, or do not consider it necessary.

Personally, I still think some of these advanced options should be changed. But, firstly, this can be done for all articles at once by clicking on the "Parameters" button on the page of the material manager and selecting the necessary settings for the same parameters.

As a result, these advanced settings for articles will be applied by default (the default option looks like "Use global") when writing all new articles. But you will be able to change some of them when creating or editing content.

Let's go in detail consider all the settings on the "Options - Advanced" tab, which you can do when creating or editing material in Joomla:

The next settings tab in the new material creation window is called "Meta-data":

Here you can set information about the article that is not visible on the site, which is primarily intended for search engine robots. In fact, some of the fields on this tab also have a pretty strong SEO value. I have already written about this in detail, so I do not consider it necessary to repeat myself. In the same place.

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site