Day 05- Introduction To Joomla Administration Top Menu!

Now, you are welcome to the Day 5 of your Joomla Website Setup series. Yesterday I wrote aobut the “Introduction To Joomla Administration Control Panel.”Today I am introducing you to Joomla administration control panel’s “Top Menu”. I’ll be discussing all of the items of the top menu in brief one by one.

The Top Menu Components

The top menu of the Joomla Administration looks like below picture.

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There are total 7 components in top menu:

Site
Menus
Content
Components
Extensions
Tools
Help

Site Menu

The Site menu looks like below picture.

It has the following items:

Control Panel
User Manager
Media Manager
Global Configuration
Logout

Logout

Clicking on this menu item logs you out of Joomla Administration area.

Rest of the items have been discussed in day 4 tutorial.

Menus Menu

The Menus menu looks like the picture shown below.

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It has the following items included:

Menu Manager
Menu Trash

Menu Manager

The Menu Manager manages all of the menus created for content presentation. How to do all this stuff will be discussed in forthcoming discussions.

Menu Trash

Whatever menus or menu items you delete, go to Menu Trash. There on you can delete those permanently or restore the relevant items.

Content Menu

The Content menu looks like the picture below:

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It has the following items:

Article Manager
Article Trash
Section Manager
Category Manager
Front Page Manager

Article Trash

Whichever articles you delete are sent to Article Trash. There from the deleted articles can be deleted permanently or restored.

Rest of the items have been discussed in day 4 discussion.

Components Menu

The Components menu looks like the picture as below:

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Any components installed will be shown under this menu item. The items shown will depend upon what you have installed.

Extensions Menu

The Extensions menu looks like the picture below.

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The items under this menu are:

Install/Uninstall
Module Manager
Plugin Manager
Template Manager
Language Manager

Install/Uninstall

This menu item is used to install or uninstall the Joomla extensions. The extensions can be components, modules, plugins, templates and languages.

Module Manager

This menu item is used to manage installed modules. Here you can do several operations like create, delete, copy etc. on module items.

Plugin Manager

This menu item is used to manage installed plugins. Here you can enable/disable the plugin items.

Template Manager

Here all the installed templates can be managed. You can also edit the template php and css files.

Tools Menu

The Tools menu looks like the picture below.

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The items under this menu are listed as below:

Read Messages
Write Messages
Mass Mail
Global Check-in
Clean Cache

Read Messages

Here you can read the private messages sent by other registered users on the site. Mails can not be received in this box. Only private messages sent from Joomla write messages menu to other Joomla registered users only within the same site.

Write Messages

Here you can write private messages to the other registered Joomla registered members on the same site only. No mails are allowed to the outside domains from this interface.

Mass Mail

Here you can send mails to the email ids of the registered users. But mails can be sent only to groups of members and not individual members.

Global Check-in

Check-out means that the content item is locked. Check-in means that the item is unlocked. When the content item is being edited, it’s checked-out. When it’s saved then it’s checked-in. Global Check-in unlocks all of the locked content items.

Clean Cache

It cleans the cache memory. Cache is just like a buffer which is used to save the load on the site. When cache is cleaned then the buffer is emptied and fresh content is loaded from database.

Help Menu

The Help menu looks like the picture below.

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The items under this menu are:

Joomla Help
System Info

Joomla Help

This menu item shows the links to the help available on Joomla topics on help.joomla.org.

System Info

It shows information about all of components of system. PHP version, PHP Settings, Joomla configuration file, directory permissions etc. are all listed here.

That’s all for today. In day 6, I am gonna discuss about adding new content in Joomla website. Remember to come back and grab your tutorial session.