So most of us here are Joomla fans while some are Drupal fans.  It’s a matter of choice really, they’re both quite good as far as CMS’ go.

But that’s not why I’m writing today.

One of the things that annoys me the most is Joomla’s quick timeout when you’re logged into the administrator back-end.  It seems that if you walk away for a few minutes, your Joomla’s timed out and you have to login all over again.  It’s especially annoying if you were working on a new article and didn’t save it prior to being logged out.  Yup, that means you have to type it all over again.

Well, if you’ve had enough of this nonsense, thankfully, you can change it pretty easily.

1. Go into your Joomla Administrative back-end
2. Click on the GLOBAL CONFIGURATION icon in the lower left of the page or you can use the menu SITE > GLOBAL CONFIGURATION.
3. Click on the SYSTEM tab
4. On the lower right side of the page, look for SESSION SETTINGS
5. Change the MINUTES to however long you want to stay logged in


That’s it, now you can safely go get another cup of coffee without having to worry about re-typing everything all over again.