How to manage global settings in Joomla

Posted:  May 14th, 2018

 

We are assuming you are already logged into your Joomla Admin Panel.

 

Joomla does not allow you to block or delete a super administrator directly, so you will first need to change the user's group.

 

1) Click Site.

 

2) Then Global Configuration.

 

The first set of options you will see are your site options, which will allow you to set the site to offline mode and change the offline message or site name.

Setting the site to offline allows only administrators to access it. This is useful for editing the site when you don't want other people to see it.

 

Let's change the site to offline now.

 

3) Click Yes next to Site Offline.

Scroll right.

 

4) Click Apply.

 

Now that the site is offline, let's preview it.

 

5) Click Preview.

 

Let's return to the admin panel.

 

Once you are finished making your changes, simply change the Site Offline option back to Off.

 

The SEO Settings allow you to optimize URLs for search engines, rewrite URLs, or add suffixes to them.

 

Metadata Settings allow you to edit your meta description and keywords. The more descriptive your keywords are, the easier it will be for people to find your site through the search engines

 

6) Go to System.

Here you can change settings related to the system, such as debugging, cache and session.

 

The User Settings allow you to turn user registration off, set the group users are added to by default, and require new users to activate their account through email before they can log in.

 

Scroll down.

 

The Media Settings let you choose what file extensions are able to be uploaded by users, set the maximum file size, change the folder paths, restrict uploads, etc.

 

For a short description about what each option does, hover the mouse over the name.

 

Scroll up.

 

7) Click Server.

 

This is where you can change your Server, Locale and FTP settings. In addition, you can also modify your Database and Mail settings.