Hiding your Joomla version in the meta tags in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle In Joomla 3.0, you have the option to show / hide your Joomla version number. If you choose to show it, it will show as a meta generator tag, as in: <meta name=”generator” content=”Joomla! – Open Source Content Management – Version 3.0.0_Alpha1″ /> To toggle the showing of your version number in Joomla 3.0: Log Read More >
How to show the Author meta tag in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle The Author meta tag allows you to add a meta tag to your Joomla 3.0 pages that specifies who wrote the article. By default, the option is enabled, and adds code similar to the below to your pages: <meta name=”author” content=”Super User” /> To toggle the Show Author Meta Tag setting Log into your Joomla Read More >
Setting Index and Follow settings in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle The next Joomla 3.0 Metadata setting we will look at is the Robots setting. This setting will allow you to set the meta robots tag, which controls how search engines will crawl and index each of your pages. Example meta robots tag: <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex, follow” /> To change your Robots settings in Joomla 3.0 Read More >
How to cancel a user account in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell As your site grows and expands, members will come and members will go. There will be a need to cancel a user’s account at some point. Drupal 7 makes it very easy to delete a user account. When you do so, Drupal gives you options on what to do with their contributions to your site. Read More >
How to block a user account in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell There may come a time when you need to block an account from having access to your site. In an ideal world, we would neer have to discipline site members, but it does happen. Also, you may want to disable accounts for anyone on vacation to further secure the account and site. Whatever your reason, Read More >
Changing the title for a view in the Drupal 7 Views Module Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell Once you have your view created, you can see there are several settings to help you customize and define it. The settings show for each individual display you have created. The settings can also be defined and changed either globally, as in for all displays for that view, or for just that particular display. This Read More >
How to add a text file for visitor download in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell There will be times when you want to offer your visitors a file for download. After adding the file field to your chosen content type, you may wonder how to place the file for upload onto your content page. This is done via the content editor within the Drupal 7 dashboard. You can follow along Read More >
How to add a download field in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When working with your content pages, there may come a time when you want to allow your visitors to download a text file. The ability to add the file for download is not standard for either the Article or Basic Pages content type. This article will walk you thorugh adding that field option to your Read More >
Enabling a view in Drupal 7 Views Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell Once you have the Views module installed and enabled, you may want to enable one of the stock modules, such as the Glossary or Archive views. All views are easily enabled for your site within the Drupal 7 Views module. Just follow the steps below to understand how to enable a view in Drupal 7. Read More >
Creating a block display for a View in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell In our last article, we created a very simple view as a page. This page appears as on the main menu of the site and lists the articles much like a blog index does. Views also allows you to take the list you created and save it in a Block format, so it can be Read More >
Creating your first View in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell This article will guide you in creating a very basic view in Drupal 7. Views can be used to create very complex lists, but as we are just learning, we will be walking through the basic steps. This is designed to give you some familiarity to the Views module and make it a bit less Read More >
How to remove the label from an image field in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When you add an image field to a content type, that field will display a label by default. For instance, if you named the field ‘image’ then just above the picture you upload will be the word ‘IMAGE’. This may not be something you want to display on your pages. Drupal does have a way Read More >
Introduction to Views in Drupal 7 Updated on February 21, 2022 by Scott Mitchell Drupal has many plugins, or modules, that you can install and enable. Drupal has a large set of ‘Core’ modules that, while installed, simply need to be enabled to be used. Others, however, need to be installed and then can be enabled and used. Views is one of these types of modules. Views is extremely Read More >
Changing the Site Meta Keywords in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle In the early days of the internet, search engines heavily relied on meta keywords and other meta settings in order to learn what a particular website was about. As the years have gone by, search engines have become more intelligent and instead use different methods to identify the subject matter of a website. While meta Read More >
Changing the Site Meta Description in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Your site’s meta description is a short description about your website set within your HTML head tag. It’s often used by search engines when they would like to show a brief description about a particular website / page. In this tutorial, we’ll show how to adjust your Joomla 3.0 site meta description. To change your Read More >
How to allow Unicode Aliases in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Unicode Aliases is the next Joomla 3.0 SEO Setting that we are reviewing. This setting controls how non-latin characters are handled in your aliases, whether they are saved or converted to a date and time. To adjust Unicode Alias settings in Joomla 3.0: Log into your Joomla 3.0 Dashboard In the left menu, under SYSTEM Read More >
How to Include your Site Name in your Joomla 3.1 Page Titles Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle The next Joomla 3.0 SEO Setting we will look at is Include Site Name in Page Titles. This setting will allow you to adjust whether or not your Site Name is included in your site’s title. Many users like to include their website’s name in all of their title tags. For example, in the Read More >
How to modify image preview style in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When working with content types in Drupal 7 and you decide to add an image, a preview of that image will show in the editor area after you link it to your page. This preview can be sized differently, depending on your content type. This means you have the ability to set the preview for Read More >
How to add the .html suffix to the end of URLs in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 3.0 allows you to toggle on / off whether you want to add the .html suffix to the end of your URLs. This is just one of several SEO Settings you can adjust in Joomla 3.0. In this tutorial we’ll go into more depth on the Adds Suffix to URL option in Joomla 3.0. Read More >
How to set a default image for content types in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When you have specific content types such as Articles, Basic Pages, Blog Entries, etc. you may want to give some uniformity to specific types. Maybe you want to have all Articles include your logo as a default image. Drupal 7 has a setting that allows a default image that will appear automatically if another specific Read More >
