{"id":1479,"date":"2012-06-19T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T17:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/06\/19\/change-install-description\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:29:04","slug":"change-install-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/change-install-description\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change a Joomla 2.5 plugin installation description"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"alert\">Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12\/31\/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.joomla.org\/Joomla!_CMS_versions\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When you install a Joomla 2.5 plugin, usually a description about the plugin is shown after successful installation. In this Joomla 2.5 tutorial, we\u2019ll walk you through the steps for changing the notes shown after a Joomla 2.5 plugin has been installed.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you\u2019re following along in our tutorial series on creating Joomla 2.5 plugins! If you are, you would have noticed that when you installed the first version of the plugin, the following message appeared:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_plugin-installation-message.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"907\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_plugin-installation-message.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"plugin-installation-message\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Simple Hello World Plugin that prints \u201cHello World\u201d at the beginning of every article<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This message is shown because of the following line in our helloworld.xml file:<\/p>\n<p class=\"code_block\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&lt;description&gt;<\/strong><\/span>Simple Hello World Plugin that prints \u201cHello World\u201d at the beginning of every article.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&lt;\/description&gt;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>To change this plugin installation message, you\u2019ll need to change the <strong>description<\/strong> attribute in your plugin\u2019s xml file. Please note that you cannot use HTML code anywhere in the description.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_an-updated-description-for-plugin-installation.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"an-updated-description-for-plugin-installation\" class=\"std_ss alignright size-full wp-image-7787\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/edu_joomla25_create-plugin-tutorial_an-updated-description-for-plugin-installation.gif\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;\" width=\"813\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>When we change the description within the xml file to:<\/p>\n<p class=\"code_block\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&lt;description&gt;<\/strong><\/span>This is my very first plugin! Simple Hello World Plugin that prints \u201cHello World\u201d at the beginning of every article.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&lt;\/description&gt;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll notice that the message has now changed when the plugin is installed again.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12\/31\/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When you install a Joomla 2.5 plugin, usually a description about the plugin is shown after successful installation. 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