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What's going on with Joomla 1.6?
Joomla 1.6
Written by Steve Burge   
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  • Student: "What's going on with Joomla 1.6?"
  • Steve: "User management is going to get more sophisticated, you won't be restricted to sections and categories for articles any more."
  • Student: "OK, but these guys are volunteers, right? How much have they got done? When can I see what it'll look like?"
  • Steve: "Errrrrr ..... ummmm ...... when I get back I'll take some screenshots of the current Alpha version and write a blog about it."

New Article Manager

  • No more sections and categories. You can have as many levels of categories as you wish.
  • "Frontpage" has been replaced with "Featured" and removed from its own "Frontpage Manager".
  • Articles is currently under the "Components" menu link. Technically it is com_content, so that makes sense.
Joomla 1.6 Content Categories

New User Groups

  • No more public / registered / special limitations
  • You can create groups and then assign them to different levels
  • The levels will control what users can and cannot do.
Joomla 1.6 User Levels

New User Manager

  • Almost the same as before, plus the ability to assign the user to custom groups.
Joomla 1.6 User

New Menu Manager

  • All of the menu items are in one long list.
Joomla 1.6 Menus

New Extension Installer

  • All of the extensions are listed together under "Manage" regardless of whether they're components or plugins.
  • "Update" will allow the installation of extension improvements without needing to uninstall and re-install
Joomla 1.6 Extension Installer
 

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#1 guysmiley 2009-08-29 13:31
Yep,
This is pretty much where things were when Wilco posted many months ago (November '08). I was hoping for an update like, perhaps, date of a first beta...? Any wind-blowing this direction?

http://jfoobar.org/blog/44-first-look-at-joomla-16-acl.html
http://jfoobar.org/blog/56-first-look-at-joomla-16-installer.html
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#2 HJ 2009-08-29 19:47
really looking forward to the 1.6 release. big thanks to all the Joomla guys and gals :-)
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#3 Sean Cook 2009-08-30 08:18
Thanks for the post Steve. Looking forward to the beta to play with.
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#4 Natalie 2009-08-30 08:39
If there's one thing I will be glad about when 1.6 is out it's loosing the section/category limitation. Thanks for the overview.
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#5 Steve Burge 2009-08-31 05:24
Hi guysmiley

This is the current status of the first beta:
groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-cms/browse_thread/thread/3286e8ebe4a62c59?hl=en-GB
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#6 guysmiley 2009-08-31 13:32
Thanks, Steve.

That was timely... is your other handle 'Hannes' ;-)
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#7 Pierre B 2009-09-01 18:11
One thing that I am hoping for with the access levels, is the ability to hide public content when a user logs into the site!
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#8 John Terpening 2009-09-02 08:41
I am with Pierre! We need a 'guest' vs 'registered' permission scheme as part of the core without having to install 3rd party components to get this done.

So you show the 'call to action' to solicit for registration in a module shown to guest, then hide the that module from view for registered visitors.

I miss very few things from my DNN days, but this type of permission scheme is one of them.
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#9 Fenrir 2009-09-03 01:25
Es bueno para ir familiarizandon os con lo nuevo de Joomla, me gustaba el componente K2, pero no tiene mucho apoyo de terceros lo que lo hace inviable...

It's good to know to get in touch with the new stuff of joomla. I liked the K2 component but it doesn't have enough support from third parties so it's not that good.
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#10 Danny 2009-09-05 23:17
I can't figure out from this post whether the access control features I've always needed will be in 1.6 upgrade to the user access model.

I need to be able to assign particular users author/edit writes to particular categories.

Anyone know if this will be possible in 1.6?
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