Getting Started with Joomla

With the default Joomla installatin, when you choose the "Links" option, you will get a standard introduction text before the listing of the web link categories.

The default text is:

The text for this message (and a number of other Joomla messages) is in the Joomla "language file." 

Here is how to change it.

On the main menu in your Joomla administrator, go to Site -> Language Manager -> Site Languages

Now, you see a list of the languages on your Joomla installation.  There is a good chance that there is just one language there, so select that:

When you click on the language, Joomla loads the language file editor.  Here you will find a long list of words and "phrases" that Joomla uses in various parts of the program.

These "definitions" have two parts.  The "descriptor" (it begins with an underscore (_)), and the phrase to use.  You can change any of these "phrases" to make Joomla use your preferred words. 

 So, let's scroll down and look for the phrases used in the weblinks page.

You will find these down near the bottom of the file (around line 496 or so).  Look for this:

Change the phrases there to be whatever you want.  Be careful about the single quotes and the semi-colon at the end of the line.  If you want to begin a new line in your phrase, insert the HTML code <br />.  You can use other HTML coding there as well if you wish.

There are a lot of Joomla's phrases that you can change in the language file.  But, be careful with the punctuation.

You can also edit this file with an FTP program / text editor.  If you choose to do this, you will find the file at /language/english.php (or whatever language your site uses). 

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