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Documentation: Frontend Editor

Documentation for Joomill Frontend Editor, the Joomla extension that shows authors only the fields they need in the article form on the site.

Configuration

Frontend Editor has one screen with options. The plugins have no settings of their own.

Open the options

Go to Components > Frontend Editor and click Options in the toolbar.

Frontend Editor options with the CSS Framework setting

Site: CSS Framework

Sets the classes of the buttons, tabs and input fields of the edit form on the site.

  • Automatic (default): UIkit with YOOtheme Pro and its child templates, Bootstrap with every other template.
  • Bootstrap (Cassiopeia)
  • UIkit (YOOtheme)

With UIkit, the tabs, buttons, icons and input groups of core and JCE fields are styled for YOOtheme.

Permissions

The Permissions tab sets who may create, edit and delete profiles. Who may edit which articles is still decided by the Joomla permissions of your articles and categories.

Override the edit layout

The form uses its own grid, so it works in Cassiopeia, YOOtheme and templates without a grid. To change the markup, copy

plugins/system/frontendeditor/tmpl/frontendeditor.php

to

templates/[your template]/html/plg_system_frontendeditor/frontendeditor.php

and edit the copy. Check your override after each update.