In this tutorial we will analyse a very important feature of Joomla. The "Alternative Layouts".

For the need of this tutorial, we are using a clean Joomla 3.6.2 installation with the default Protostar template.

This tutorial explains how to configure Joomla's TinyMCE editor to control HTML content filtering, ensuring clean markup while maintaining security when users copy content from external applications.

Joomla's core Contacts component (com_contact) has built-in support for custom fields — no third-party plugin is required, and the approach is fully upgrade-safe. This is the same mechanism used since Joomla 3.7 and it works unchanged in Joomla 6.

Joomla supports changing the string on every aspect of a joomla installation. With this simple guide we will analyse in a few steps how to change a few strings.