Spice up Joomla! with productivity-enhancing extensions
Joomla!,
a popular content management system (CMS) for Web portals, is easy to
install and maintain, and has thousands of components, modules, and
Mambots for almost every thinkable function a Web site could possibly
need. All of the extensions are open source, as is the CMS itself. Here
are a few extensions that I find indispensable.
Once your Joomla! setup finishes, one of the first things you should install is a component called JoomlaPack.
This backup software doesn’t have many configuration options, but it
does the job it was intended for — keeping your files and database
safe from disaster. JoomlaPack can back up your database and site files
either independently or all together. In the component’s configuration
panel you can define which directories should be excluded from
archiving (/temp, for example). Once the backup completes, you can
download the archive files it creates from the JoomlaPack configuration
screen. The only downside of JoomlaPack is that, unlike JoomlaCloner, another backup application, you can’t set it to schedule automatic backups.
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