Joomla!® Bible

Appendix B. A Guide to the Location of Key Files

APPENDIX B

• Locating files

One of the first steps in customizing your Joomla! site is figuring out where to go to find the files you need to change. Table B.1 shows the locations of the items that are most commonly modified by site owners.

The table's contents provide the locations of the key files used by the front-end components and modules, as well as the locations of the language packs, the default images, and perhaps most importantly, the front-end and admin Templates and CSS files.

Note that the location given is the path to the files on your server, relative to directory where you have placed your Joomla! installation.

Table B.1. Key Files

Item	Location
Components (front-end output)
Banner	components/com_banners
Contacts	components/com_contact
Newsfeeds	components/com_newsfeeds
Polls	components/com_poll
Weblinks	components/com_weblinks
Site Modules (front-end output)
Archive module	modules/mod_archive
Banners module	modules/mod_banners
Breadcrumbs module	modules/mod_breadcrumbs
Custom HTML modules	modules/mod_custom
Feeds module	modules/mod_feed
Footer module	modules/mod_footer
Latest News module	modules/mod_latestnews
Login module	modules/mod_login
Menu modules	modules/mod_mainmenu
Most Read module	modules/mod_mostread
News Flash module	modules/mod_newsflash
Poll module	modules/mod_poll
Random Image module	modules/mod_random_image
Related Items module	modules/mod_related_items
Search module	modules/mod_search
Sections module	modules/mod_sections
Stats module	modules/mod_stats ...