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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By : Eric Tiggeler
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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

Joomla! 1.6 First Look

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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.
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Preface

Chapter 7. Unleashing the New Power of Extensions

Joomla! has always been famed for the fact that it's really easy to extend its basic functionality with extensions: adding new features to your website is a matter of installing an extension and changing a few settings. In Joomla! 1.6, using and maintaining extensions has become even more user-friendly and more powerful. The extensions screen has been overhauled and it contains some new functionality—such as an automated updating process for installed extensions. Moreover, there are some new modules—the very popular little functionality blocks that can appear in any position on a Joomla!-powered web page. Also, maintaining modules has become more flexible. There are new ways to control when (in what period of time) and where (on what pages) modules should appear.

In this chapter, we'll cover:

  • Changes in the extensions that come with Joomla!

  • The new tabbed Extension Manager screen

  • Setting a time span for publishing modules

  • New ways to control...

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