Extensions

The Joomla! content management system lets you create webpages of various types using extensions. There are 5 basic types of extensions: components, modules, templates, languages, and plugins. Your website includes the extensions you need to create a basic website in English, but thousands of additional extensions of all types are available. The Joomla! Extensions Directory is the largest directory of Joomla extensions.

Smart Search

This module provides search using the Smart Search component. You should only use it if you have indexed your content and either have enabled the Smart Search content plugin or are keeping the index of your site updated manually. Help.…

Quick Icons

The Quick Icon plugin group is used to provide notification that updates to Joomla! or installed extensions are available and should be applied. These notifications display on your administrator control panel, which is the page you see when you first…

Captcha

The Captcha plugins are used to prevent spam submissions on your forms such as registration, contact and login. You basic installation of Joomla includes one Captcha plugin which leverages the ReCaptcha® service but you may install other plugins connecting to…

Search

The search component uses plugins to control which parts of your Joomla! site are searched. You may choose to turn off some areas to improve performance or for other reasons. Many third party Joomla! extensions have search plugins that extend…

Banner Module

The banner module is used to display the banners that are managed by the banners component in the site administrator. Help. {loadmodule banners,Banners}…

System

System plugins operate every time a page on your site loads. They control such things as your URLS, whether users can check a „remember me“ box on the login module, and whether caching is enabled. New is the redirect plugin…

User

Default on: Joomla Help Default off: Two new plugins are available but are disabled by default. Contact Creator HelpCreates a new linked contact record for each new user created. Profile HelpThis example profile plugin allows you to insert additional fields…

Content

Content plugins run when specific kinds of pages are loaded. They do things ranging from protecting email addresses from harvesters to creating page breaks. Default on: Email Cloaking Help Load Module Help Page Break Help Page Navigation Help Vote Help…