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What's new in Joomla 2.5?
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Summary of the main points from the video:
1. Installation – includes an option to put the site into offline mode immediately
2. Offline mode - ability to include your own image
3. Control Panel Quick Icons – alerts you if a Joomla or extension upgrade is available
4. Smart Search – provides a better search experience
5. Captcha – Recaptcha service built-in to the core
6. Article Images and Links – makes it easier to add images and links to articles
7. Language settings – update standard Joomla text strings from Administrator
8. Category filtering – display all articles within a category and related sub-categories
9. User Notes – assign multiple notes to users
10. New user email notification – can now be disabled
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Thanks Richard, thats very useful (for a lazy person like me who does not like to read release notes;-)
Richard,
Many thanks for this blog/tutorial, its very helpful.
But I discovered the Smart Search is not shown during my upgrade from 1.73 to 2.5.
Any idea?
I am sure to renew my sub for all these wonderful tips.
Sam
The component and plugin should be there. But you might need to create a new module (Extensions - Module Manager - New - Smart Search Module).
If the upgrade was successful, but you got some database errors during the upgrade, check the jos_menu table in your Joomla database. If you don't see an entry for Smart Search, it's possible that it does exist, but you will need to manually enter the SQL to insert the menu item. It will then show up in your Components menu.
There have been some issues with Smart Search on the upgrade. If you Google the problem, you'll find some good threads with lots of info.
An excellent overview of the new features. This has saved me a couple of hours working out what these features do and how to use them - thanks very much.
Richard.. Thank you for these awesome tutorials... I will be purchasing a Joomla pro package in a few days because i have learned more from the buildajoomlawebsite than almost any other site I've been too.. Thanks
Thanks Richard great tutorial as usual, one feature that I think should be included but is not is a way to edit the fields that go into creating and editing a user. In fact I would call this a fix, since currently when you setup required parameters for a user you had better hope you do not need to edit that user because the required fields do not show up and so you are not able to save the user updates. To top it off there is no error message or any other way to know why Joomla will not save the user details.
Impressive post.Really very useful for me. please provide more. Keep continue.
Joomla is getting better and better day by day. This video is excellent. One can understand main features of Joomla 2.5 easily. This will help me to increase my skill level to one step ahead.
Great introduction Richard, looks like its time to start playing with 2.5.
Still have about 30 sites left to migrate to 1.7 first though.
Thanks
Bruce
Hi Richard. regarding the changes to "help" non administrators to upload images/links to articles. The most common problem I encounter dealing mainly with school office staff is the ability to upload docs/pdfs and link them on an Article.Rather than have to use an FTP programme is it possible from the front or backend to upload a doc--navigate to it and hence create the hyperlink. Even when using FTP you need to remember ecactly what the doc file was called. Direct navigation from within joomla would solve all this?
Regards Dave
There are several document management extensions. Check out this section of the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED):
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/downloads
Just find the component that has the features you need, is rated well and updated frequently. Also make sure it works with your version of Joomla.
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Hi Richard
Very useful video, I have upgraded one tset site but have no captcha plug in installed It may be a bug on upgrade.
The info on smart search was really useful I wouldn't have known you'd have to index first. Many thanks for the useful video.