Enable Article Versions in your Joomla Site 🛠 Maintenance Monday Live Stream #094

Written by: Tim Davis Created: 17 June 2019

Category: Maintenance Monday

Hot!Hits: 540Reading time: 01:36

Maintenance Monday

Streamed live on Jun 18, 2019 Maintenance Monday Live Streams

Unlike in word processing programs, once you save a Joomla article you can't use ctrl-z to go back to a previous version. However, if you enable "versions" in your website, you will be able to access previously saved versions of your Joomla articles - depending on how you have things setup.

This video also refers to xbAutosave for autosaving article changes in Joomla.

Be sure to check out our video about that too! ► • Use xbAutoSave to Save Joomla Article...

How to turn on article versions and set it up correctly in Joomla and how to use this feature is what this Maintenance Monday live stream is about.

- Video about enabling article versions in Joomla site maintenance
- Tim Davis hosts Maintenance Monday Live Stream #094
- Tutorial on enabling article versions
- Travels and conferences caused recent livestream hiatus
- Tutorial demonstrated in Joomla backend
- Steps to enable article versions:
- Go to Content > Articles
- Click on Options (top right)
- Navigate to Editing Layouts tab
- Enable versions by selecting "Yes"
- Set maximum versions per article (e.g., 50)
- Save and close
- Article versions allow for historical tracking
- Versions button appears in Article Manager for each article
- Ability to restore previous versions
- Comparing versions feature demonstrated
- Tip on using autosave and key article versions
- Discussion about Joomla extensions Facebook group
- Introduction to responsive coming soon page extension
- Live demo of countdown clock feature
- Mention of World Clock Pro extension for showing times in different places
- Mention of a voting age checker extension (language not specified)