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Tips for administrators of Joomla!® websites in Business, Public Sector and Voluntary Sector organisations.

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Try using the Columns Selector feature introduced with Joomla! 4.2

Joomla! Help Support Warrington Cheshire Manchester Merseyside UKColumns Selector is a new feature introduced with Joomla! 4.2.

After updating your Joomla! CMS you will see the button (highlighted in the image below) at the right hand side of Dashboard screens.

Examples include:

  • Articles screen.
  • Modules screen.
  • Any screen where there are columns of data - maybe too much data.

Well, now you can hide some of these columns.

Details

Read more: Try using the Columns Selector feature introduced with Joomla! 4.2

Check your website's Robots TXT File after updating to Joomla! 4

Joomla! Help Support Warrington Cheshire Manchester Merseyside UKThe purpose of the Robots TXT File is to dissuade bots from crawling certain website directories.

The default Joomla! 4 Robots TXT File includes the following line:

  • Disallow: /api/

to dissuade bots from crawling a directory called API which was introduced with the launch of Joomla! 4.

Details

Read more: Check your website's Robots TXT File after updating to Joomla! 4

Ensure you and your website comply with GDPR Regulations

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General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) became law in the UK and EU in May 2018.

GDPR incorporated and extended what was previously covered by the EU ePrivacy Directive 2009/136/EC, which required owners of websites which are visited by citizens of the UK and European Union (EU) to tell visitors which cookies were being used by their website.

But what if you recently established your business or organisation?

Did you know that non-compliance runs the risk of incurring financial penalties?

Details

Read more: Ensure you and your website comply with GDPR Regulations

  1. Save time when pasting text into your website
  2. Subscribe to the Joomla! Community Magazine
  3. Check whether a recent change in UK law affects your website
  4. Keep up to speed with cPanel Security News
  5. PHP 8.0 is now available: use it
  6. Periodically browse the Joomla! Vulnerable Extension List
  7. Display round images in your website
  8. Add a custom favicon to your website's template
  9. Check your website's Robots TXT File is search engine friendly
  10. Always be on the look out for Joomla! Updates
  11. Check out these free Multimedia Resources
  12. Things to consider when changing template
  13. How to prevent scripts from being removed on saving
  14. Essential Joomla! Tasks
  15. Good housekeeping makes sense!