Search-engine friendly URLs. Refers to URLs that are descriptive in a way that search engines can understand. Normal Joomla! URLs look something like this: http://www.yoursite.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=3&Itemid=41 You can optionally have URLs display to look like static HTML pages like this: http://www.yoursite.org/faq.html…

Languages are perhaps the most basic and critical extension type. Languages are packaged as either a core language pack or an extension language pack. These packages consist of INI files which contain key/value pairs. These key/value pairs provide the translation…

An abbreviation for “Linux Apache MySQL Perl/PHP/Python.” These group of free and open source programs are used to run many dynamic websites. Most Joomla sites run with Apache and MySQL. All run with PHP. In addition, JavaScript is now an…

RSS (which stands for, among other things, Really Simple Syndication) that allows you to syndicate your site content. It defines an easy way to share and view headlines and content through newsfeeds. You can find RSS feeds in hundreds of…

Annually events for Joomla community organized around the world. Joomla.org has a brief list of major Joomla Day since its early days at http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_Days/History

In Joomla, a program that associates a path (URL) with internal Joomla queries. Normally a router contains two methods, build() and parse(). The build() method takes an array of commands and returns a JURI object. The parse() method reverses this…

A user level on a Joomla site that is the same a Public except for the Allow permission for the Site Login action. This means members of this group have access only to the front-end access to the site. Should…

A user level on a Joomla site with access only to the front end. Publishers have permission to write, edit, and publish site content.

A Joomla extension that displays the results of a survey conducted on your site.

A plugin is a kind of Joomla! extension. Plugins provide functions which are associated with trigger events. Joomla provides a set of core plugin events, but any extension can fire (custom) events. When a particular event occurs, all plugin functions…