The search component uses plugins to control which parts of your Joomla! site are searched. You may choose to turn off some areas to improve performance or for other reasons. Many third party Joomla! extensions have search plugins that extend where search takes place.
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- Content Help
- Contacts Help
- WeblinksHelp
- News FeedsHelp
- CategoriesHelp
System plugins operate every time a page on your site loads. They control such things as your URLS, whether users can check a "remember me" box on the login module, and whether caching is enabled. New in 1.6 is the redirect plugin that with the redirect component assist you in managing changes in URLs.
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- Remember me Help
- SEFHelp
- DebugHelp
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- CacheHelp
- LogHelp
- RedirectHelp
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- Joomla Help
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Two new plugins are available in 1.6 but are disabled by default.
- Contact CreatorHelp
Creates a new linked contact record for each new user created. - ProfileHelp
This example profile plugin allows you to insert additional fields into user registration and profile display. This is intended as an example of the types of extensions to the profile you might want to create.
Content plugins run when specific kinds of pages are loaded. They do things ranging from protecting email addresses from harvesters to creating page breaks.
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- Email Cloaking Help
- Load Module Help
- Page Break Help
- Page Navigation Help
- Rating Help
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- Code Highlighting (Geshi) Help
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Extensions
The Joomla! content management system lets you create webpages of various types using extensions. There are 5 basic types of extensions: components, modules, templates, languages, and plugins. Your website includes the extensions you need to create a basic website in English, but thousands of additional extensions of all types are available. TheJoomla! Extensions Directory is the largest directory of Joomla! extensions.
