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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

Before you start: choosing a safe root user's name


Before we have a look at the backend interface, let's focus for a while on an issue concerning site security—it's about your personal keys to the site.

In any CMS, it's vitally important to guard any "doors" through which hackers can grab hold of your site. In Joomla! 1.5, the door to the backend of the site wasn't closed securely due to the system habit of naming the root user (the Super Administrator) "admin" during the installation process. If you didn't change the name "admin" later on, hackers only needed to guess your password to be able to log in to your site.

Joomla! 1.6 rectifies this flaw by letting you enter an Admin Username during the installation process. In previous versions, you could only change this name after installation—and many site administrators apparently didn't bother.

You can now change the root user's name during the installation process (see Step 6, Configuration in the screenshot below). In the Main Configuration...