Current Users

Details: Written by: Administrator; Parent Category: FAQs; Published: 10 October 2006; Created: 11 August 2008; Last Updated: 20 April 2014; Hits: 456

Mambots have been renamed as Plugins.

Mambots were introduced in Mambo and offered possibilities to add plug-in logic to your site mainly for the purpose of manipulating content. In Joomla! 1.5, Plugins will now have much broader capabilities than Mambots. Plugins are able to extend functionality at the framework layer as well.

Details: Written by: Administrator; Parent Category: FAQs; Published: 10 October 2006; Created: 10 August 2008; Last Updated: 20 April 2014; Hits: 476

In Joomla! versions prior to 1.5 there were separate processes for creating a Static Content Item and normal Content Items. The processes have been combined now and whilst both content types are still around they are renamed as Articles for Content Items and Uncategorized Articles for Static Content Items.

If you want to create a static item, create a new Article in the same way as for standard content and rather than relating this to a particular Section and Category just select Uncategorized as the option in the Section and Category drop down lists.

Details: Written by: Administrator; Parent Category: FAQs; Published: 10 October 2006; Created: 10 August 2008; Last Updated: 20 April 2014; Hits: 482

The improved Installer can be found under the Extensions Menu. With versions prior to Joomla! 1.5 you needed to select a specific Extension type when you wanted to install it and use the Installer associated with it, with Joomla! 1.5 you just select the Extension you want to upload, and click on install. The Installer will do all the hard work for you.

Details: Written by: Administrator; Parent Category: FAQs; Published: 05 October 2006; Created: 06 August 2008; Last Updated: 20 April 2014; Hits: 470

This is now defined in the Language [lang].xml file in the Language metadata settings. If you are having locale problems such as dates do not appear in your language for example, you might want to check/edit the entries in the locale tag. Note that multiple locale strings can be set and the host will usually accept the first one recognised.

Details: Written by: Administrator; Parent Category: FAQs; Published: 29 September 2006; Created: 30 July 2008; Last Updated: 20 April 2014; Hits: 965

Joomla! 1.5 does not provide an upgrade path from earlier versions. Converting an older site to a Joomla! 1.5 site requires creation of a new empty site using Joomla! 1.5 and then populating the new site with the content from the old site. This migration of content is not a one-to-one process and involves conversions and modifications to the content dump.

There are two ways to perform the migration:

Current Users

Where did the Mambots go?

Where is the Static Content Item?

Where did the Installers go?

What happened to the locale setting?

How do I upgrade to Joomla! 1.5 ?