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Disable front-end editing on the Frontpage in Joomla

To disable editing on the Frontpage in Joomla 1.5.11, all I had to do was change:


$access->canEdit = $user->authorize('com_content', 'edit', 'content', 'all');
$access->canEditOwn = $user->authorize('com_content', 'edit', 'content', 'own');

(Lines 64-65)

To:

$access->canEdit = $user->authorize('com_content', 'edit', 'content', 'none');
$access->canEditOwn = $user->authorize('com_content', 'edit', 'content', 'none');

(Lines 64-65)

In the following file:

[joomla install]\components\com_content\views\frontpage\view.html.php

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  1. Mike says

    Thanks !!!! That’s awesome…

  2. Julia says

    nice article.. solve my problem to disable joomla frondend editor

  3. Matt says

    Thanks, big help! :)

  4. glen schaefer says

    does not work in joomla 1.15.20 – how to fix for latest version ?



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