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Joomla! Official Documentation Reader profiles Find the profile that most accurately describes your role and you will find the documentation that you need more quickly. These are the most frequent profiles... Beginners Developers Web designers Administrators Evaluators None of the above? Then look for more user profiles. Quick links Frequently Asked Questions Tips and tricks Joomla! Security Checklist Vulnerable Extensions List Browse all categories Wiki policy Documentation license Glossary References Getting started If you have only recently starting working with Joomla you will probably have experienced the pain of learning a new system. New terminology, new ways of doing things, perhaps even the web itself may be new to you. Then let these guides relieve some of that pain. Getting Started with Joomla! Getting Started with Joomla! 1.5 Important You don't need to register here if you just want to read the documentation. You should only register if you want to make changes to the information contained here. Also note that registration on this wiki is entirely separate from registration on our other sites, such as the forum.

Coming soon With Joomla 2.5 safely released the focus of development is shifting to 3.0, currently scheduled for release in September 2012. This will be the first of a new series (3.0/3.1/3.5) and maintaining backwards compatibility with 2.5 will not be required. Joomla 3.0 FAQs

Joomla Platform The Joomla Platform is available. Development will be time-based with roughly a three-month release cycle. Joomla Platform API Reference Joomla Platform on Github Backward Compatibility Tracking

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Joomla! 2.5 Joomla! 2.5 is the current LTS version. The previous LTS version, Joomla 1.5, is still widely used and will be supported with security fixes only until September 2012. Migrating from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 Version 2.5.28 FAQ Technical Requirements Installing Joomla! Upgrading from Joomla 1.7 to Joomla 2.5 For more information see the Joomla 2.5 category page.

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Joomla! 3.10 Joomla 3.10 was the last STS version prior to Joomla 2.5. Support for Joomla 3.10 ended on 24 February 2012. Technical requirements Installation What's new Access control system International enhancements Layout overrides Version 3.10.12 FAQ For more information see the Joomla 3.10 category page.

Helping with the documentation effort Documentation Projects You don't need to join the Documentation Working Group to help us improve the documentation. Just register on this wiki and get started. Feel free to fix any errors you find; take a look in the Cookie jar; or consider helping out in one of our mini-projects... <translate> Joomla! Beginners Tutorial Project The aim of the Beginners Tutorial Project is to construct useful, easy to follow Tutorials aimed at Joomla! Beginners. Topics will include helpful 'how to's' for the benefit of those new to Joomla! </translate> <translate> Joomla! Developer Tutorials Project This project is aimed at creating consistent, easy-to-follow Tutorials for Joomla! Extension Developers, written by Joomla! Developers.</translate> <translate> Joomla! Help Screens Project This project focuses on the administrator Joomla! 3.10 Help screens. Unless a Joomla! Installation is modified, all core component Help screens are being served from this wiki. The summary status of each Joomla! Help screen can be found in the previous links.</translate> <translate> Joomla 4 Tutorial Project The aim of the Joomla 4 Tutorial Project is to construct useful, easy to follow Tutorials aimed at Joomla! Beginners and Developers. Topics will include helpful 'how to's' for the benefit of Joomla! users </translate> Most popular pages 1. Beginners 2. Main Page 3. Migrating from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5 4. Getting Started with Joomla! 5. Installing Joomla 6. Developers 7. How do you recover or reset your admin password? 8. Upgrading 1.5 from an existing 1.5x version 9. Vulnerable Extensions List 10. Developing a Basic Component - Joomla! 2.5 11. Use Joomla! on your own computer 12. Installing a template 13. How do you modify a template? 14. Creating a basic Joomla! template 15. How do you put a module inside an article? 16. Joomla 3.0 FAQ 17. Accessing the database using JDatabase 18. Web designers 19. Changing the site favicon 20. Copying a Joomla website

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