- Plugin:
- A specific type of Joomla Extension that provides some functionality or behavior in the background of a Joomla website.
In the early days of Joomla, plugins were called mambots. Since version 1.5, the name was updated to plugin as their power and versatility increased. Joomla comes installed with several core plugins, such as Load Modules and Pagebreak, but many other third party plugins are available.