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Tired of spam registrations in your Joomla website? Joomla 2.5 version now has built in plugin to add recaptcha. Recaptcha is free service from Google which provides a user to enter the two words (These words can't be read by bots) before registering.

Three things you need to check periodically (for example monthly) to maintain your Joomla website health.

Joomla is the most popular Content Management System. It is much more than just a powerful content management system. Besides, hundreds of extensions to enhance functionality of any Joomla website, Joomla itself includes some powerful built-in features (or core features).

jDownloads is free and most popular Joomla extension for managing files and Download system.

Joomsef is SEO Extension for Joomla. To remove the copyright footer message which is displayed on each page, open the file (via FTP or cPanel File Manager) joomsef.php (This file is located in components/com_sef folder).

The Joomla 3.2 release introduced the JMicrodata library, and the 3.3 release introduced microdata elements into two of the core component's layouts.

One of the things that Joomla lack in its core is commenting system. To enable comments in Joomla powered website, you need to install external extensions. One of the most popular commenting system is jComments which is now available for Joomla 2.5.

Joomla 3 and newer versions are loaded with bootstrap at its core. What does it means? You can apply many of its styles irrespective of your Joomla template. In this article, I will list 10 of my favorite bootstrap styles.

jComments is free and popular Joomla extension for adding commenting system in Joomla. However, this extension displays a link to joomlatune website.

Apps are used to extend j2Store E-commerce platform.

In this plugin, customers are redirected to the payment gateway to make payment, like the Paypal standard.

With T4 Page Builder, you can create stunning Joomla sites visually, fast, and easily based on beautiful website bundles, content blocks, add-ons, and 100% visual design-builder. You can build websites that load faster, well optimized for speed and SEO.

• Joomla Versions

Joomla 4.2 is expected to be released after 12 months of 4.0 version and after 6 months of 4.1 version. Its main feature will be multi-domain site functionality.

• Joomla Versions

Joomla 4.1 is expected to be released 6 months after 4.0. With Joomla! 4.0, a completely rewritten and better version of the media manager was implemented.The major feature of Joomla 4.1 will be an even more improved media manager.

Joomla global language file is included for every extension. So, you don't need to include these in your component language file. You can directly include these constants.

In JoomlArt page builder, the layout includes 3 main sections. For each section, you can add as many content blocks as you want.

Joomla 4 will move towards using prepared statements for all database queries. PHP 5.3 introduced the concept of prepared statements. Joomla 4 will start taking advantage of them. The main advantage of prepared statements is to reduce the exposure of a code base to SQL Injection attacks by sending the query and the data separately.

A module is an add-on to the site that extends the functionality. A module usually occupies a secondary portion of the web page and is not considered the primary focus of a page.

Since Joomla 4.0, Joomla can read a change log file and give a visual representation of the change log. You can add this in the manifest file. If a given version is not found in the change log, the change log button will not be shown.

With Joomla version 4, you can directly add a menu item while editing an article.

Joomla templates based on T4 framework.

• Joomla Versions

Joomla 4.0 is Joomla’s new major version. Joomla 3.10 is released alongside Joomla 4 as the last minor release of Joomla 3. Joomla 3.10 will continue to be supported for 2 years giving plenty of time to webmasters to plan migration to Joomla 4 and update extensions to Joomla 4 compatible versions.

You can have all the custom fields corresponding to the current item or current user. It can be accessible through a new property in $item variable called jcfields. The $item->jcfields property is an array that holds the data per field.

JA ACM module (JoomlArt Advanced Custom module) helps to build content blocks for Joomla site easily based on pre-made layouts and styles. The content blocks together can build a landing page or a complete site.

This module displays a random image from your chosen folder.

The Statistics Module shows information about your server installation together with statistics on the website users and the number of Articles in your database.

This module displays tags used on the site in a list or a cloud layout. Tags can be ordered by title or by the number of tagged items and limited to a specific time period.

The Similar Tags Module displays links to other items with similar tags. The closeness of the match can be specified.