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Change Login to Logout

The Good Folks at OSTraining just published this nice Tutorial: Step #1. Create the Login link Go to Menus > your menu > Add New Menu Item Enter a Menu Title. Select the Menu Item Type. Choose ...
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Direct logout link

As a final answer, Joomla has a builtin "Logout" menu item, added to core I think around 3.4* maybe 3.5. So now you don't need any additional plugins. The logout menu item also allows for a redirect ...
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Show Login Popup on Read more Restriction

You need to create a template override for the article view - default.php template file. Layout Overrides in Joomla. How to override the output of Joomla core Understanding Output Overrides So ...
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Adding text to registration form

There are two ways you can do for that (both are safe from Joomla update / you won't loose the changes when updating your Joomla) 1. By using template override Copy the file /components/com_users/...
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Direct logout link

As a third option, there is a Quick Logout component which adds a direct logout menu item in Joomla and will logout the users without the confirmation. It also provides the option to set redirection ...
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Offering different content to different clients

I have achieve great result usging the nonumbers extensions like advanced module manager and advanced template manager. Links: https://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/advancedmodulemanager#free-vs-pro ...
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Invalid token after upgrading Joomla to 3.5

Apparently there area couple of issues with Joomla 3.5.0, one being to do with the session. Joomla 3.5.1 will be released tonight, hopefully fixing your issue. It may be an idea to put your site ...
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How to Remove Joomla Icon at the bottom Admin Login page?

Open isis template folder and add custom.css file in css directory and then add this code span.icon-joomla { display: none; }
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How to Remove Joomla Icon at the bottom Admin Login page?

You can remove the icon and the link by adding or updating a custom CSS file at /administrator/templates/isis/css/custom.css with the following CSS: a.login-joomla { display: none; } Note that ...
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Using Joomla! user account for authenticating to a Laravel application

as Valentin Despa say "I can imagine it could be quite easy to draft a solution where you expose an RESTful API via a component which allows you to authenticate the users." A non REST solution is to ...
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Direct logout link

I found that on Joomla 3.9.22, a link to /component/users/?task=user.logout worked as a logout link that did not require a userToken. When I used index.php?option=com_users&view=login&layout=...
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Disable website to all but logged in users

I'm going to give my answer for this based on @Bryan's answer. The Members Only plugin looks very promising, so no comment on that. The registeredOnly plugin is free, however I was not impressed ...
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How to share table between 2 or more databases?

Yes, you can share the users from one Joomla! site to multiple other Joomla! sites (as long as you keep them on the same J! version). This is how you do it in Joomla! 2.5 - 3.6 (current version): ...
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Share joomla login in multidomains

I have figured out how to actually synchronize user login for all sub domains of joomla!. What Joomla does is it stores the session id of a user on a cookie that is: enter image description here But ...
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Secure site for members

Create a login module and set the viewing access level to 'guests'. Link here docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Access_Control_List_Tutorial
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The background color of my login screen turned black. How do I change it back to the default?

$this->params->get means there is a parameter in your Template options. Simply go go: Extensions >> Templates >> Isis >> Advanced Then the color parameter you need to change it "Nav Bar ...
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Change Login to Logout

In Joomla! 3.5 we have a new menu item type called Logout in Users section, create a new menu item and select this new option, see the screenshot: Regards.
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Redirect after login by component

You can create a plugin that triggers on onUserAfterLogin and redirects the user to where you want. or you can add a &return= query variable to your links to the login page as described here
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Change home menu title after login

Best way to do this is to add another menu item, rather than try to change the existing one. Then in menu manager change the access level on the Feature from the default 'Public' to 'Guest'. This ...
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How do I setup recaptcha on an override of "default_login.php"

I cannot see how the accepted answer answers the question. So, since you are quoting from my answer on the other question, I will explain what I meant. The JCaptcha::display() function accepts three ...
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Login into the joomla using facebook

This is more of a suggestion than an answer, but you can learn a lot by looking at other extensions to see how they solved the issue. A component called Facebook Graph Connect seems to do something ...
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Redirect to Previous Page after successful Login/Logout using Menu Item

You can try change the login component and add some script like this: <script> function goBack() { window.history.go(-2); } </script> but y dont know if this apply in all your cases ...
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Back end login inaccessible

Think of what has changed since it last worked.. Did you update Joomla? Did your host upgrade the php version on the server? This may be the case and if you go in and delete an ampersand at line 106 ...
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JAuthentication: :authenticate: Failed to load plugin: plgauthenticationcookie Invalid password

Having done some research on the topic, I found this: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=624&t=659815 The solution provided by the author says to completely removed the plugins directory ...
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When users click "logout", where is the global variable sent to?

Its received by JInput which is instantiated in JApplicationBase::_construct(). By default it's source is $_REQUEST like you can see here.
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Offering different content to different clients

One of the most powerful module managers for Joomla is MetaMod. I have been using it for ages and in any imaginable scenario. It has powerfull set of criterias: by date, time, recurring time, GeoIP (...
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Invalid token after upgrading Joomla to 3.5

Turn off the System - Page Cache The issue is related to the cache.
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User login only by password

Content Password Plugin The Content Password plugin worked well to password protect content on a Joomla page but unfortunately was not updated by the developer for newer versions of Joomla. ...
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Change Login to Logout

I had to do the same thing on one of my sites. Firstly, you should create a Template Override for the mod_login module Once done, you should have the following file: ROOT/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/...
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