Akeeba Backup
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Akeeba Backup is the industry-standard backup solution for Joomla. It creates complete, self-contained site archives — files and database in a single package — that can be restored with the standalone Akeeba Kickstart tool on any PHP server, with no Joomla installation required. Backups can be automated on a schedule and pushed to remote storage including Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and SFTP.
Akeeba Admin Tools
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Akeeba Admin Tools is a comprehensive security hardening and maintenance toolkit for Joomla. It provides a Web Application Firewall (WAF), automated .htaccess and web.config generation, IP blocking, URL redirection management, and a file integrity scanner — all in one component without requiring server-level access.
Community Builder
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Community Builder (CB) by Beat Cain / CB Team is the leading user profile and community extension for Joomla. It extends the default Joomla user system with rich profile fields, avatar management, a privacy framework, a plugin API, and a complete front-end member directory — all without modifying Joomla's core user tables.
Kunena Forum
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Kunena is the most widely used forum component for Joomla. It provides a full-featured discussion board with categories, topics, replies, private messaging, user ranks, subscriptions, and attachment support — fully integrated with Joomla's user and ACL systems and optionally with Community Builder profiles.
Tags
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Joomla Tags provide a flat, cross-component classification system. Unlike categories, tags can be applied to articles, contacts, news feeds, and any third-party component that supports the Tags API. A single piece of content can carry multiple tags, and a single tag can span multiple content types.
Smart Search
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Joomla Smart Search (com_finder) is the built-in full-text search engine. It indexes all published content — articles, categories, contacts, news feeds, tags, and third-party components — into a searchable index with stemming, phrase matching, and filtering by content type, category, or date range.
Akeeba Data Compliance
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Akeeba Data Compliance is a GDPR and privacy regulation compliance component for Joomla. It provides a structured workflow for handling data subject requests — export, erasure, and consent management — and integrates with Joomla's core privacy framework as well as third-party components to ensure comprehensive personal data handling across the entire site.
User Accounts & Profiles
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Joomla includes a complete user account system for front-end registration, login, profile editing, and password reset — all without any additional extensions. Users are assigned to groups that determine what they can see and do across the site.
Perfect Publisher Pro
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Perfect Publisher Pro is a social media auto-publishing extension for Joomla. It monitors article publishing events and automatically posts to configured social media accounts — including Facebook Pages, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and others — the moment an article is published or on a defined schedule. It integrates directly with the Joomla content lifecycle with no manual step required.
Media Manager
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The Joomla Media Manager is the central file library for all images, documents, and media on your site. It provides a visual folder browser, drag-and-drop uploads, inline image editing, and direct integration with the content editor — accessible from both the admin panel and the front-end editor.
Contacts
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The Joomla Contacts component (com_contact) provides a structured directory of people and organisations with individual contact pages and customisable contact forms. Each contact can have its own address, phone, email, links, and an associated Joomla user account.
Articles & the Content Editor
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Articles are the primary content unit in Joomla. Every article has an introtext shown in blog and list layouts and an optional fulltext shown only in single-article view after the Read More break. The built-in TinyMCE editor provides rich formatting, media embedding, page breaks, and version history out of the box.
OS Membership Pro
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OS Membership Pro (OSMembership) is a subscription and membership management component for Joomla. It handles plan creation, member sign-up, payment processing, subscription renewals, and access control — integrating directly with Joomla's ACL system so membership status automatically controls what content members can see across the site.
JS Jobs
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JS Jobs is a full-featured job board component for Joomla. It provides separate workflows for employers (posting vacancies) and job seekers (creating profiles and applying), with category management, application tracking, résumé management, and email notifications — all integrated with Joomla's user and ACL systems.
Category Manager
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Categories are the backbone of content organisation in Joomla. Every article, contact, news feed, and banner must belong to a category. Categories form a tree — any category can have unlimited sub-categories — and each node in the tree can have its own access level, metadata, and custom image.
Menu Manager
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The Joomla Menu Manager controls all site navigation. A Joomla site can have multiple independent menus — each rendered by its own mod_menu module. Every page on a Joomla site is ultimately defined by a menu item: the menu item type determines what component renders, what layout is used, and what appears in the URL.
User Manager & Access Control
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Joomla's Access Control List (ACL) system is one of the most powerful in any CMS. It separates User Groups (who the user is) from Viewing Access Levels (what they can see) from Permissions (what actions they can perform). These three layers combine to give very precise control over every aspect of the site.
Extension Manager
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The Joomla Extension Manager handles installation, updating, and removal of all extensions — components, modules, plugins, templates, and language packs. Joomla 6 supports installation from a URL, an upload package, a local folder, or the official Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) directly from the admin panel.
Global Configuration
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Global Configuration is the master settings panel for the entire Joomla installation. Changes here affect every page, every component, and every user unless overridden at a lower level. It is accessible only to Super Users at Admin → System → Global Configuration.
Publishing Workflow
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Joomla Workflow provides a configurable content approval pipeline. Instead of authors publishing directly, content moves through defined Stages (e.g. Draft → Review → Published) via Transitions. Each transition can require specific permissions and trigger automated actions such as sending notification emails.