Tips for Joomlers

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

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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 are complying with GDPR Regulations

Joomla! Help Support Warrington Cheshire Manchester Merseyside UKGDPR = General Data Protection Regulations.

The new regulations came into force in May 2018 so pre-existing businesses and organisations should have this issue covered by now.

But what if you recently established your business or organisation?

Or you have since re-launched your website?

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

Details

Read more: Ensure you are complying with GDPR Regulations

Save time when pasting text into your website

Joomla! Help Support Warrington Cheshire Manchester Merseyside UKIt is tempting to copy text directly from a file (for example: MS Word) on your computer and then paste it straight into a website Article.

The problem with adopting this apparently common sense approach is that you will unwittingly copy into your website ALL the formatting added by the application you were using when you wrote the original text.

This is BAD for three reasons:

  1. it causes slower page load times - especially important on mobile devices,
  2. it breaks the House Style (see below) being implemented across your website by the website template, and
  3. it means extra work undoing all this unnecessary and annoying formatting later on!

So what should you do?

Well, some 3rd party content editor extensions designed for use with Joomla! will strip out the formatting from pasted text after you paste it into your website Article.

Being 'old school', we prefer to remove the formatting BEFORE pasting text into an Article.

Read on to find out how we do this.

Details

Read more: Save time when pasting text into your website

  1. Subscribe to the Joomla! Community Magazine
  2. Check whether a recent change in UK law affects your website
  3. Keep up to speed with cPanel Security News
  4. PHP 7.4 is now available: use it
  5. Add a Telephone Field to your Contact Form
  6. Periodically browse the Joomla! Vulnerable Extension List
  7. Display round images in your website
  8. FREE Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate
  9. Add a custom favicon to your website's template
  10. Check your website's ROBOTS.TXT file is not undermining SEO
  11. How to reset the Article Hits Counter
  12. ALWAYS be on the look out for Joomla! Updates
  13. Periodically check your website is working as intended
  14. FREE Multimedia Resources
  15. Things to consider when changing template
  16. How to prevent scripts from being removed on saving
  17. Essential Joomla! Tasks
  18. Make Page Navigation more Search Friendly
  19. Adjust Joomla! Redirects to avoid a bloated database
  20. Good housekeeping makes sense!