Four Simple Joomla Time Saving Editing Tips

If you have a Joomla website, as you add more content pages, sometimes you may think that as you create more and more pages, finding a specific page for re-editing or improvement later can become harder. However, with a little extra know-how, you can find any page you want in seconds.

If you're using the latest Joomla v1.5.x web Content Management System (CMS), here are 4 speed tips to help make working with a powerful Joomla website quicker and easier.

Tip 22 - Listing Links to All of Your Pages on the Current Page

When you first log in to your Joomla website Admin Control panel, the first screen you'll see is your Joomla Admin Control panel Home page containing your 10 main buttons. One of those buttons - Article Manager - gives you direct access to all of your website content pages. Tip 22 is more useful if your website contains under 500 content pages.

In Article Manager, with your web pages listed, Joomla may list your web page links on pages containing 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 50, 100, or "all". To find a specific page more quickly, you may prefer to choose the "all" option. Here's how: scroll down to the bottom of the current page in Article Manager, then in the center of the column, choose the drop-down list for "Display #", and choose the "all" option.

Tip 23 - Rearranging Links to All of Your Web Pages in Alphabetical Order

If you choose your Article Manager button, under the Title column, you may see hundreds of links to your web pages. Here's how can you find a specific content page quickly. First, do Tip 22 above. Then, if you know the title of the web page you want to edit, simply click the Title column header once and Joomla rearranges all of your web page title links in reverse alphabetical order. Or if you prefer, click your Title column header once more, to have your Joomla website system rearrange your list in alphabetical order. You can then scroll down the list to find your desired page quickly.

Tip 24 - Combine Tip 22 and Tip 23

When you combine Tip 22 and Tip 23 above, you can find the page you want in record time.

Tip 25 - Accessing Your 10 Most Recently Added Web Pages in Under 3 Seconds  

If you want to re-edit a web page that you have been working on recently, when you first log in to your Joomla Admin Control panel, rather than go to Article Manager to find your web page, on the Joomla Admin Control Panel Home page, look to the right of the 10 main buttons, click the Recently Added Articles tab to have Joomla display a list of the 10 most recently added articles links. Simply choose the link you want to go straight to your desired web page.

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