What’s new in joomla 3.7
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The document presents an overview of Joomla 3.7, detailed by Tim Plummer during the Joomla User Group meeting on February 14, 2017. Key new features include improved routing, custom fields, a multilingual associations manager, and a custom backend menu manager. Additionally, there are updates on plugin warnings for old PHP versions, new functionalities in media management, and enhanced article management options.
What’s new in joomla 3.7
- 1. What’s new in Joomla 3.7 Presented by Tim Plummer Joomla User Group Sydney 14th February 2017
- 3. Schedule for release Actual release dates Alpha 1 – 20th Dec 2016 Alpha 2 – 19th Jan 2017 Beta 1 – 2nd Feb 2017 Beta 2 – 9th Feb 2017 Planned dates
- 4. Big features • Routing • Custom Fields • Associations Manager • Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues?page=1&q=label%3A%22New+Feature%22+milestone%3A%22Joomla+3.7.0%22+is%3Aclosed
- 5. Routing • New router – make routing both more flexible and more reliable – Get rid of ids from URL – Avoid search engines indexing the same content with multiple URLs
- 6. Routing • Optional feature, default is legacy routing (nothing will change) • Integration tab allows you to switch on per component
- 7. Routing • Legacy mode shows article ID in URL (eg. When accessed from a category blog menu item) • Modern setting with Remove IDs from URLs set to Yes
- 8. Routing • Recommended that new sites use Modern • Existing sites leave the Legacy mode or use Modern with Remove-ID setting left to No (to avoid SEO consequences) • Or existing sites could use 301-redirect to reroute existing URLs
- 10. Multilingual Associations Manager • a result of a GSOC project • allows you to make translations from content into another language using one interface • https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/13537
- 11. Backend Admin Menu Manager • With this feature you can create and use a custom admin menu • https://github.com/joomla/joomla- cms/pull/13036
- 12. Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu • You can create your own admin menu
- 13. Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu • And change the module to display your menu instead
- 14. Menu manager for Joomla Backend Menu • So you can control what is shown on your backend menu
- 16. Plugin with a nag message to update PHP • New warnings about old PHP versions • Warnings for PHP 5.3 thru 5.5. • No warnings for 5.6 or 7.0
- 18. New show info option in com_contact https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/8607
- 19. Media select all • So you can easily delete a folder full of images
- 20. Allow a custom page title to be defined for an article without a menu item • Makes it possible to customize the browser page title for a case when an article is not displayed using a com_content article menu item (i.e. displaying an article that's a child of a blog with a menu item). https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/10838
- 21. Reply to email Set in global config
- 22. Add sort by modified date in mod_articles_news Articles – Newsflash module can now order by modified date
- 23. Show Intro Text parameter added to mod_articles_news
- 24. Feature items filter to mod_articles_news
- 25. New DateTime picker (replaces calendar)
- 26. Did you know that Joomla has a built in voting feature? • This feature has been in Joomla for a long time • In article options, turn on Show Voting • Make sure Content – Vote plugin is enabled • Users can then vote on the articles
- 27. Article ordering by votes or ratings
- 28. Article ordering by votes or ratings
- 29. Insert menu item links in content
- 30. Insert contact links in content
- 32. Create Contact Button • Single contact menu item
- 33. Create news feed button • Single news feed menu item
- 34. Create Menu Item button • System links – menu item alias
- 35. Create Category button • For multilanguage install, on associations tab you can now create a new category https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/11857
- 36. Add unpublished Content Language on Language Package Install • When you install a new language pack, it will create the content language for you
- 37. Value of global setting shown
- 38. Menu item visibility indicator • When using “Display in Menu” feature (added in 3.5.1), there was no easy way to see what is hidden. Now there is visual indicator
- 39. Optional prefix/suffix text on Mass Mail Form • Users->Mass Mail Users->Options • Now you can see prefix & suffix text on form
- 40. Check for minimum supported database type and version • com_joomlaupdate can now check for minimum supported database version per type https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/12355
- 41. Show configured upload limit when uploading files
- 42. Declare that child extensions cannot be uninstalled • Extension developers and prevent child extensions in a package from being uninstalled separately https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/13154