{"id":1642,"date":"2012-08-02T12:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/08\/02\/modify-site-name\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:01:11","slug":"modify-site-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/modify-site-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change your Site Name in Joomla 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_site-name-showing-in-footer.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_site-name-showing-in-footer-1024x549.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"site-name-showing-in-footer\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_site-name-showing-in-footer-1024x549.gif 1024w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_site-name-showing-in-footer-300x161.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_site-name-showing-in-footer-768x411.gif 768w\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Your <strong>Site Name<\/strong> in Joomla 3.0 is used in several different places. For example, if you look at your HTML source code, you\u2019ll see your site name listed in the title tag (if you have <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/include-site-name\/\">this setting enabled<\/a>). If your template is designed to do so, you may also see your site name listed somewhere on your site, such as in the footer (see the screenshot to the right). In this Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we will show you how to modify your site name.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very simple change you can make to your Joomla 3.0 website. It\u2019s not a change to the server itself, so regardless of your <a ferh=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/joomla-hosting.html\">Joomla host<\/a>, you should not have any problems editing your Site Name.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Changing your Site Name in Joomla 3.0:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard\/\">Log into your Joomla 3.0 site admin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Global Configuration<\/strong> in the left menu<\/li>\n<li>If you are not on the Site tab, click <strong>Site<\/strong> at the top of the page<\/li>\n<li>Under the <strong>Site Settings<\/strong> heading, find the <strong>Site Name<\/strong> setting. Change the value as needed, and then click the <strong>Save<\/strong> button in the top left of the page. In our testing, we changed the Site Name from <em>My Site Name<\/em> to <strong>My Joomla 3.0 website<\/strong>. If you compare the screenshot at the top of the page and the one below, you can see how this setting changes the Site Name showin within our template:<br><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_after-changing-site-name.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"after-changing-site-name\" class=\"std_ss size-full wp-image-8115\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_after-changing-site-name.gif\" width=\"1039\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Site Name in Joomla 3.0 is used in several different places. For example, if you look at your HTML source code, you\u2019ll see your site name listed in the title tag (if you have this setting enabled). If your template is designed to do so, you may also see your site name listed somewhere<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/modify-site-name\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4403,94],"tags":[4404],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla","category-joomla-3","tag-joomla-v3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to change your Site Name in Joomla 3.1 | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Your Site Name is shown in many places within your Joomla 3.0 website. 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