This is the second post in a series looking at some of the new features that you will find in Joomla 3.7 which is scheduled for release in March.
When I am building a web site I want to do it as quickly as possible. With Joomla 3.7 there are now several new features that will really help to speed up your web site development. In this post we will explore the NEW ability to create content on the fly directly at the point that you create the menu.
This is the first post in a series looking at some of the new features that you will find in Joomla 3.7 which is scheduled for release in March. For some people the Router changes are something that they have been waiting ten years for.
UPDATE 23 March. The Router will NOT be in Joomla 3.7. More info from the Release Leader.
One of the main, if not the main, things that makes Open Source software different is that the code is freely available and anyone can contribute fixes and new functionality. All those contributions need people to test them and the more people that help to test then the better the code will be and we will all benefit.
It's often hard to remember that while we live all our working day (and often all the night) inside a Joomla web site our users don't. They might only need to do something on the web site once a month or maybe not even that often. So no matter how much time you spend to simplify the process they will always forget something.
When you only have one or two content creators then Joomla is pretty good but when you increase the number to ten or twenty with their content distributed across the site it can be improved.
For my latest project I need, for security purposes, to check the details of every user who registers on the site BEFORE I approve them. Dependent on their answers to the questions on the registration form they will either be rejected, approved or approved as members of a privileged usergroup.
Something that has been on my personal Joomla todo list for quite a long time has been a real coming soon page. Setting Joomla to offline mode is OK but it looks ugly and because it requires you to login to view the site you don't get to see the site as a regular user will do.
In part one of this series of blog posts I showed you how I created a simple distraction free template to use when editing content. In this post I am going to expand on that work and customise the content creation form itself. Testing showed that there are too many fields on the default form and that this was confusing to users.
Editing Joomla content on the front end is really easy and its something that Joomla has supported for a very long time. But I have found that if you have a complex website with lots of modules on the page then those modules become a distraction. My user wants to click on the edit link and just have the article to edit. No modules, no menus, no slideshows cluttering up the page and distracting them from writing their content.
