Beginner's Guide

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You can combine the title of a site with the titles of its pages and decide on the order they will
appear.
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Modules can be published time-controlled. The assignment options to menu items have been
extended.
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Multilingualism
Joomla core now offers the possibility to create articles, categories and modules in several languages.
With the new language switching plug-in and module you can filter the entire site for the selected
language.
CodeMirror is the new editor, which is supplied in addition to TinyMCE. It is not a WYSIWYG editor
but offers a convenient way to work with 'code-like' content, which will be displayed in a structured
way with syntax highlighting.
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Components
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The new redirect component enables redirections to URLs in order to avoid '404 not found'
errors.
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A new scalable search component has been introduced. It pre-searches the content, sorts results
by relevance, suggests alternative search phrases, processes wide range of document types, etc.
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The survey component has been eliminated.
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New Release Cycle
Every 18 months, a long term release of Joomla will appear.
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Introduction of the Joomla platform
Joomla consists of two parts
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the Joomla platform
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the Joomla content management system
There are many more very nice little features like the possibility to place a background image into a
module or to display articles with page breaks in a tab or slider layout.
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide
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