Presentation for Joomla Chicago South User Group meeting Jan 18th, 2012

1. Joomla Chicago South User Group
http:joomlachicagosouth.com
Joomla 2.5
Hidden Gems
2.5
And New Features
Presenter: Mike Carson
www.joomlashowroom.com

2. Installation Features

3. Site Offline During Installation

4. Native ZIP Support Check

5. Multi Database Support
O MySQL
O MySQLi
O MS SQL (Microsoft)
O PostgreSQL
O Oracle
O SQLite
O PDO Drivers (PHP Data Objects)

6. Maintenance
Features

8. Database Updater
O Used when sites are manually updated
O Use this when you cannot do an automated update

9. Site Offline Enhancements
• New site offline message options
• Upload your own site offline image

10. Debug Enhancements

11. Administration
Features

13. Status Display in Backend
Old
New

14. Link a Menu with a
Menu Module
After creating a menu, it is now very easy to create a
menu module for your newly created menu.

15. User Related
Features

16. Developers can now use this core
plugin API and not have to include
their own ReCAPTCHA API inside
their extensions.

17. User Notes
Make personalized notes about individual users

19. Content Enhancements

20. Smart Search
O Indexed content O Faster searching
O Content maps O Auto complete

23. Global Text Filters
O Block the
ability to add
html tags
O Block certain
words
O Filter blacklists
and whitelists
by user groups

24. Other Hidden Joomla Gems
Little known features that are hidden away in Joomla

25. TinyMCE Editor Options
Simple Advanced
Extended

28. Language Overrides
O You can override the default language
strings by using the overrides language
files.
Back End
/administrator/languages/overrides/en-GB.override.ini
Front End
/languages/overrides/en-GB.override.ini

29. Pages, Tabs, & Slides
O Changes the display of your article pagination

30. Mike Carson
Integrated Technology and Design Inc.
mike@itdwebdesign.com
(888) 760-0876
http://joomlashowroom.com
http://itdwebdesign.com
http:///joomlearn.com
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