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Version: 3.x

Log in and find CBX

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Audience: store admins · Scope: getting into the CBX admin area · Last reviewed: 2026-07-21

What this does — Gets you into the back office where all store management happens, and shows you the menu you'll use for everything else in this guide.

Before you start​

  • You need an admin account for your website with access to CBX. If you don't have one, ask whoever set up your site.

Steps​

  1. Open your site's administrator area in a browser. On a Joomla-hosted store that is your site's address followed by /administrator; on a WordPress-hosted store it is /wp-admin.

    The administrator login screen

  2. Enter your username and password and sign in.

  3. Open the CBX area. On Joomla: Components → CBX — see Run CBX on a Joomla site for everything Joomla-specific. On WordPress: CBX in the left admin menu — see Run CBX on a WordPress site for everything WordPress-specific. On Magento 2: Configbox → Administration in the admin sidebar — see CBX on Magento 2 for everything Magento-specific. The CBX screens themselves are identical on every host.

  4. You land on the Dashboard, with the CBX menu on the left:

    The CBX dashboard with the menu on the left

What happens next​

Every article in this guide starts from this menu — when a step says "go to Products" or "open Settings", it means this CBX menu, not your site's general admin menus.

Good to know​

  • Menu groups expand. Entries with a + (Products, Countries, Shipping) expand to sub-entries; the Products entry is both a link (the product tree) and a group.
  • Two ways to edit. Besides the back office, managers who are logged in on the storefront see edit buttons when hovering over products, questions and answers — the same edit forms open in place. Great for tweaking while seeing what the customer sees.
  • If your admin session expires, CBX brings you back to the login screen — nothing you had already saved is lost.
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