www.youtube.com How to change Joomla Footer Text. In earlier versions of Joomla, changing the standard footer text was confusing at best, or painfully difficult at worst for new Joomla users. It has since improved greatly, but it is still not straightforward. The Joomla developers have chosen to build a special module for the footer. This allows them to display the default footer text in multiple languages automatically. While this is nice from a developer’s point of view, it doesn’t work well for people that are building a site in just one language. The complexity of supporting multiple languages has made it more complex to change for average Joomla users. There are two major ways to change this text, and we will cover both of them now.