Beginner's Guide

Figure 6: User Notes
Clean Up
Filtering for Categories in Article Manager
That is simply useful. Since Joomla 1.6 it was possible to filter categories in the article manager, but
you did not see the articles of the subcategories. Now the filter logic include the articles of the
subcategories too.
Linking New Menus with a Module
In Joomla 2.5 modules are NOT automatically created for each new menu type. This is not a bug, it's
a feature :)
Not everyone used the core menu module, but used instead ones from a custom template or third party
module. For that reason, menus did not automatically create a module in 1.6/1.7. This change confused
people and created extra work. In Joomla 2.5, if there is no module associated with the menu, there is a
link showing in the Menu Manager that you can click that will take you directly into a new module that
you can create. You then have the choice of saving this standard menu module or cancelling out and
using a different menu module.
Custom Text Filters are moved to the global configuration. They are filtering content for black
and white listed tags based on your configuration and on role permission.
You can now choose to have the administrator get a new message when a user creates an
account. This is useful when the New User Account Notification is set to Self. In that case the user
receives an email after the registration with an activation link (Figure 7). After clicking that link the
account is activated.
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide
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