Beginner's Guide

want to search additional components, the respective plug-ins for those have to be available as well (Figure
6).
Figure 6: Smart Search Plug-ins
QUICKICONS
The plug-ins of this type are checking for updates for Joomla and for your installed third-party
extensions and notifies you when you visit Site -> Control Panel.
Figure: 7 Quickicons
SEARCH
The Search plug-ins for Contents, Weblinks, Contacts, Categories, and Newsfeeds can be activated when
needed. They implement the search function of the Search component (Read more in chapter Search). These
plug-ins have to be activated if you7are trying to obtain7search results from the respective sections. If you
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