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If your Joomla site has a "category blog" display, you need to make sure that the articles display in a certain order. This video demonstrates how to do that, using the Menu Item settings. It also shows how to add space around a picture in Joomla, so that the text doesn't bump into the image.

This is the most efficient way I have found to upload, resize and caption an image onto your Joomla article. Demonstrated here is front-end editing, using the JCE Content Editor, featuring their plugin, the Image Manager Extended.

This is a super quick tutorial on updating articles on your Joomla site from the front-end. This only addresses simple text updates.

Would you like an easy way to continually keep Google's attention on your Joomla site? Xmap is a Joomla component/plugin that automatically adds your new posts to a dynamic sitemap which feeds to your Google webmaster tools account. This means that Google gets PINGED every time you add a new post or article to your site. When Google gets pinged, your site is more likely to climb up the Google ranks.

Read more: An Automated Sitemap!