Beginner's Guide

Chapter 13

Extension Management

There is a lot in the core package of Joomla. Words like components, modules, plug-ins, templates and

languages you have already heard before. Besides these well known parts, Joomla also consists of lesser

known parts like libraries and packages. Additional components, modules, plugins and languages are listet in the

Joomla extension directory

. The Joomla project has no central place for templates und libraries. The

reason for this is simple. Libraries are developed outside of the Joomla project and many were also used

by other open source projects. Templates are something very individual and are, therefore, available on

the websites of their designers. A central directory especially for templates would be helpful in the future.

With the rewritten extension manager you can install, update, discover und manage extensions

directly from your Joomla administration.

MANAGING EXTENSIONS

Let's have a look at all your installed 122 extensions in Extensions → Extension Manager → Manager. You

can ﬁlter this list by various parameters. Some extensions are protected. Your Joomla installation would

no longer work if you uninstalled these protected extensions (Figure 1).

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http://extensions.joomla.org/