Most Remarkable Changes in Joomla 1.5 ~ Continued

My list of Changes in Joomla 1.5 in comparisons to the older Joomla 1.0 didn’t come to an end in the last article. I am continuing them here. The changes although are numerous and the ones I am mentioning are not the only changes. However I have detailed the ones which I thought are the most remarkable ones. Continuing on with our discussion, the next most notable change is the deletion of the “Intro text” field. This omission is done for good and now there is only one text field for the article. Making things definitely easier! The intro text however is not gone completely and can be added using the read button more button. This button will ultimately separate the intro text and article text and display them.

Another addition in Joomla 1.5 is that now all articles are managed in one place under the Article Manager Tab. The word “content item” has also been modified to the word “article”. The Archive manager has been removed completely and instead a feature of Archive or UnArchive has been added to the Article manager. Another additional feature is the embedded option that sorts the articles under published, not published and archived. Thus, making article sorts no more hectic for the developer.

I had mentioned in my previous article about the unified installer and uninstaller being merged up in one place. They are now available in the extensions manager. Now using the Joomla 1.5 we can easily install and extension from anyplace over the internet directly by just giving the URL of the extension download link.

Adding new menu items is now not a big deal for beginners. Thanks to the Joomla 1.5 and its all new menu item management, now its very easy to create and manage menus. This wasn’t easier in the earlier versions and anew developers mostly went bonkers trying to set up the menu properly.

There is also a separate trash manager for articles in the new Joomla 1.5, however the functionality is the same as Joomla 1.0. My list of most remarkable changes ends here. These were the changes I liked the most. If you have come across any other major change in Joomla 1.5 then do let me know and I will add it up here.