There are hundreds of changes in Joomla! Some are invisible; these are technical improvements making the Joomla! Other changes are visible improvements to the user interface that make it more intuitive to use.
In this section, we'll cover four main fields of improvements: usability, working with content, user access, extensions and templates. However, it didn't always make it easy on its users to unleash all that power. In version 1. At first sight, Joomla! Here's what the new version looks like:. One of the usability improvements that will save you many unnecessary clicks is the introduction of tabbed buttons in many backend screens, allowing you to switch quickly to another screen to perform related tasks.
The screenshot below, for example, shows three tabs that are displayed in the Article Manager. When managing articles, these allow you to jump from the Articles screen to the Categories screen, where you can add or edit article categories, or to the Featured Articles screen, where you can assign articles to the homepage:. The administration area layout has been further updated allowing easier access to those features that you use regularly.
For example, a new Users menu has been added to the top menu that gives you access to enhanced users, groups, and permissions tools called Access Control Levels or ACL. This menu lets you add users, and define what they can and cannot see or do on the frontend and backend.
The Users menu is where you set all Access Control Levels see the New ways to manage user access section later on in this chapter. As an example, here's what the toolbar buttons look like when you're editing an article:. This allows you to quickly create a series of articles one after another without having to close the New Article screen. In the course of this book, you'll learn more about changes in the way you'll work in the Joomla! In Chapter 2 , we'll focus specifically on all that's new in the administration area interface.
The main thing that a content management system should help you in doing is of course to publish content and to manage existing content with minimal effort. In this respect also, Joomla! A major innovation is that Joomla! Up to Joomla! Although this didn't pose problems for most sites, it was nevertheless a strange restriction. That's why Joomla!
Categories can now hold an unlimited number of subcategories. This means that you can have a hierarchy like this:. A category can hold as many subcategories as you need. This concept is called "unlimited nested categories". In most cases you won't need more than two or three subcategories, but if you do, there's nothing to stop you.
You can check the content category hierarchy in the Category Manager. Child categories are displayed indented, with small gray lines indicating the sublevel:. The above screenshot shows the nested categories contained in the sample data that comes with Joomla! As you can see, all article content is stored in subcategories of the main category Sample Data-Articles.
You can also have a list of nested categories displayed on the website itself as shown in the screenshot below. In Joomla! Using this new Menu Item Type you can display an overview of links to all site categories. On the next page, you can see an example of the output of the List All Categories Menu Item Type as it is used in the sample site that comes with Joomla!
Adding menus and editing menus is something you'll do quite often in any CMS. Moreover, when you add a menu link, you're now presented with a new list of clearly understandable Menu Item Types. In the rest of this book, you'll learn more about the new ways of working with content. Chapter 3 focuses on organizing content. A major change in Joomla! It gives site administrators fine-grained control over what registered users can see and do on the website.
Site members may have exclusive group access to special content and members of the editorial team may be allowed to access the backend and perform site management actions such as creating or editing articles. You can create as many user groups as you like and control the rights of users in detail. In short, you can add users, assign them to custom groups, and define what these user groups are allowed to see and do both on the frontend and backend of the site.
You can set permissions on different levels: on a site-wide level, on the level of components, right down to the level of individual articles or modules. The site-wide permissions are set in the Global Configuration Permissions screen:. The new ACL system may be very powerful, but it can also be quite complex. You need to carefully plan how you want to set it up. But it can be fun too—it's really cool to be able to specifically control which pages different registered site user groups can see or edit.
You'll see examples of this later on in this book. Of course, you don't have to use ACL when running a Joomla! If you're fine with the basic levels of user access that were present in 1.
The 1. In Chapter 5 , you'll learn more about managing site users with the new Access Control Levels system. The availability of numerous high-quality third-party extensions and templates is probably one of the main reasons why Joomla!
Using extensions is great—but there's also a weak point to relying on third party functionality. How do you keep track of updates for all the extensions you're running? In previous versions of Joomla! Extensions Database or the developers sites to see if updates were available. In real life, the difficulty of keeping track of upgrades has meant that many Joomla!
This is where Joomla! With one click, you can search for updates for all installed extensions. If updates are available, you can install them immediately:. A strong point of Joomla! Another new feature in this Joomla! Styles are combinations of template options, such as the template color scheme. Even if you apply just one template to the entire site, you can still select different template settings for specific site sections. One example of this is that you can have the home page of your site to display with a "green" color scheme the first template style and the other pages in the "blue" color scheme the second template style :.
In Chapter 6 , you'll learn more about using templates and template styles in Joomla! Chapter 7 gives an overview of all that's new in working with extensions. It's easier, for example, to apply metadata to specific parts of the site.
More importantly, you can now restore broken links to your site by using the new Redirect Manager. This component working in conjunction with the new Redirect plugin keeps track of any "page not found" errors that occur when visitors are trying to visit pages that have been removed or deleted. This feature can be quite useful for people visiting your site through outdated links, as they won't just hit a dead-end error page any more.
Moreover, search engine spiders can now keep track of valuable content, even after it has been moved to a new location. In this quick tour, we've only just touched upon some major changes in Joomla! Let's summarize:. The server requirements of Joomla! Before you install Joomla! Currently, Joomla! You'll have to copy articles manually or use a dedicated content migration extension, once it becomes available. Menus have been rearranged, tabs and toolbar buttons have been added or renamed.
You can now organize content into as many categories as you want. The concept of unlimited nested categories is easier to grasp than the rigid old three level system. The new Extension Manager Update functionality automates the process of keeping all installed extensions up-to-date.
To adjust templates to your taste, you can now set template 'styles'. Styles are combinations of template settings that you can use to give different parts of the site their own distinctive colors or layout. The Redirect Manager helps you to automatically point visitors who visit your site through outdated links to updated URLs.
In the course of this book, you'll get to know all these enhanced features and try out how they'll benefit you when building your own site. In the next chapter, we'll focus on the new Joomla! You'll learn how to get the most out of the new features of the revamped administration area. Eric Tiggeler has authored several books on Joomla! Today we are glad to announce that we have a new Warp framework version for you which is Joomla 1.
We also took the time to port the latest Warp 5. All in all we are excited to present you 19 templates for Joomla 1. Now its your turn to try them out!
Most work went into converting our overrides for Joomla 1. All component overrides are not final yet and we will update them in future template releases. Consider the template releases as beta and in case you experience any issues please let us know so we can fix them.
Just get in touch by sending a tweet , email or leave a comment. We will also keep our eyes on the next 1. Everyone who wants to try out our Joomla 1. Here are the answers: Right now we are working on ZOO 2. The old YOOtools will not be converted for Joomla 1. We are working on it right now and ZOO 2. Update 3: We release ZOO 2.
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