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Joomla! Documentation
Welcome to Joomla! Documentation! An online collaborative community manual for Joomla! users, developers or anyone interested in learning more about Joomla! Currently, we have 4,727 articles written and maintained by our Joomla! community members. If you want to help with our documentation, please read How to Contribute to Joomla! Documentation.
Quick Start
- Learn More About Joomla → What is the Joomla CMS, what can it do for you, and how to install it.
- Beginners → Where do I start? I am ready to use Joomla but I have no idea what to do first.
- Administrators → You are a Joomla website administrator and responsible for the day-to-day operation and maintenance of the website.
- Developers → You are a developer interested in creating a Joomla extension, module, or plugin.
Lightning Links...
What version of Joomla should you use? Version 3.3 or Version 2.5?
If you are creating a new website, you should always use the latest version. Currently, this is Joomla CMS Version 3.3. Upgrading will be now be easier, read more about this on our release and support cycle page.
Joomla CMS Version 2.5 is a current Joomla version with active support scheduled to end December of 2014.
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Common Tasks & Solutions
Configuring Your Installation Version Updating & Migrating Secure Your Website Search Engine Optimisation Managing Your Users
Get Involved and Give Back
If you want to give back to Joomla! and the Joomla! Community, here are just a few ways you can make a difference.
- Volunteer to Help with Documentation - It's easy, every little task is appreciated and you don't have to be a Joomla! expert.
- Join the Bug Squad and help squash some bugs.
- Become a Joomla! Core Code Contributor and help improve the functionality of Joomla!
- Help answer questions on the Joomla! Forum.
- Join or start a JUG (Joomla User Group) in your area.
Joomla Documentation Projects
- 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!
- Joomla! Developer Tutorials Project
- This project is aimed at creating consistent, easy-to-follow Tutorials for Joomla! Extension Developers, written by Joomla! Developers.
- Joomla! Help Screens Project
- This project focuses on the administrator Joomla! 2.5 Help screens and Joomla! 3.3 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.
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