Joomla uses groups as a method of assigning permissions. Default groups: Public, Guest, Manager, Administrator, Registered, Author, Editor, Publisher, Publisher, Super Users. However, you can create unlimited user-defined Groups.

An article that doesn’t belong to any category.

Template overrides are a way of changing the way Joomla shows something without changing the basic or core Joomla system. A template override is a layout file that is placed in a special subfolder of the template. If found, it…

Template style is a feature introduced in Joomla 2.5 that allows users to assign different template styles to individual menu items. By default, Joomla! assigns a template style to all menu items upon installation. A yellow star indicates the default…

A template is a type of Joomla! extension that changes the way your site looks. There are two types of templates used by the Joomla! CMS: Front-end Templates and Back-end Templates. The Front-end Template controls the way your website is…

The highest user level in Joomla. Members of this group have super user permissions throughout the site. If anything can be done in a Joomla installation, the super user can do it.

A collection of related articles. Sub-categories start at one organiza- tional level below categories. Since Joomla 1.6, you may have as many levels of sub-categories as you please (called nested categories).

Stands for Structured query language. The language used to create SQL queries to access and manipulate databases. Includes DDL (data-definition language that manages table and index structure) and DML (data manipulation lan- guage, the subset of SQL used to add,…

A split menu is where different levels of a single menu are displayed in two or more locations on a single web page. For example, a common requirement is for a menu of top-level items to appear at the top…

The process of optimizing your pages to give them high-ranking placement in the search results page of a search engine (SERP) - including Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines.