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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you. This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.6 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we've covered many improvements in the way you deal with menus and menu items in Joomla! 1.6:

  • The Menu Manager features two tabbed screens: Menus and Menu Items. The Menu Manager: Menus screen offers you a number of shortcuts to get straight to the set of menu items you want to check or edit.

  • You can jump straight from the Menu Manager to the appropriate menu module to change its settings. No more clicking back and forth between Menu Manager and Module Manager!

  • The Menu Manager: Menu Items screen allows you to access the desired set of menu items through a range of filtering options.

  • At the bottom of the Menu Items screen, a new section called Batch process the selected menu items allows you to move, copy, or set the access level of selected menu items all at once.

  • When you add or edit a menu link, you're now presented with an updated list of Menu Link Item types. Two new items are the List All Categories menu link and the List All Contact Categories menu link.

  • Joomla...