Accessing Joomla's Administrator section

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This explains how to login into the backend administrators part of Joomla! 

See the instructions for logging in for Front End access if you have it.

Logging In

To login to the 'backend' administrators area for Joomla!

1. Open a browser window and navigate to www.yourwebsiteaddress/administrator
2. A screen as illustrated right will be displayed.
3. Enter your user name and password and click on the login button.

The control panel

After you login, a screen called the control panel will be displayed.

The Control Panel provides access to the main Joomla! functions and features.

Depending on your level of access, you will have access the Joomla! features that you need to manage your content. 

• Article Manager
• Category Manager
• Section Manager
• Media Manager

From the control panel you can access high level statistics about the site content such as the most popular pieces of content (as articles).

Other Control Panel functions

There are areas of the site you may have access to that you might not need, but are necessary for the functioning of your site.  Significant changes can be made and if used incorrectly, your website may fail to function such as:

• Menus
• Site Backup
• Forms
• Front Page Manager

So only go into these if you need to for your site.

Restricted content

Certain parts of your site will be restricted to the site administrator.   This is to safeguard your site, as changing any of these elements could seriously compromise your site:

• Modules - placement of special content elements
• Templates
• Functionality such as calculators

To Log out

Click on the logout button found at the top right hand corner of the administration screen.