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    Joomla 3.9 Is All Set To Transform Websites & Here’s What You Need To Know

    • October 21, 2021
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    Joomla 3.9

    A rewarding content management system (CMS) and one of the most flexible platforms, Joomla is known to have powered millions of websites and online applications for businesses.

    Incepted much earlier in 2005, Joomla has undergone a lot of improvements and version upgrades taking the platform to a new level and making it easier, secure and more stable.  This year in October,  Joomla 3.9 was released as the tenth minor release of the series 3.x that had been introduced earlier in 2012. Notably called the “Privacy Tool Suite”, Joomla 3.9 comes with about 250 improvements and is supposed to revolutionise the way you create, manage and maintain websites. (Click to Tweet)

    With this new release chiefly focussed on the implementation of GDPR or General Data Protection Regulation in the websites, we PHPProgrammers, a team of professional Joomla developers in Australia has thought of describing what else this fresh release will bring out.

    So, while the key improvements are made emphasising the privacy to make website compliance faster and easier, here have a look at the Joomla 3.9 new features that give the CMS a competitive touch. 

    New Things In Joomla’s Latest Release 3.9

    User consents

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    Joomla 3.9 lets website owners handle all user consents automatically. While earlier, the users were required to consent to any terms, conditions or specific privacy policy of the site, the owners can now easily create forms for requesting consent from users every time the site needs to collect personal data.

    There are more to it! The website owners can have time-based privacy consent with expiration. This means it will let them know when user consents need to be renewed.

    Extension capabilities

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    With the Extension developer in Joomla 3.9, you can clarify your users about the data that any of your extensions collect. For instance, using the new Plugin event (onPrivacyCollectAdminCapabilities), the website’s owner can cause an extension to have a report function if it requires privacy consideration.

    Easy user information access

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    Joomla’s new release will help the owners or users of the site to easily track and control the user access to information, regulate their removal requests. After a request is made, users can just log in and subsequently export their data or dismiss any data or do both.

    Joomla 3.9 brings much more than just Privacy improvements

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    While content management is made a lot easier with Joomla 3.9, there are many more little features which will be sparking up major differences in the website management.

    User actions log system

    This allows for creating an audit-log to review all the activities performed in the site and even fine-tune that to the administrator’s choice.

    Yes, the website’s administrators or owners can now know what actions have been executed in a site. They can easily see every detail of what users did and when. The logs for the users actions also show up in the supported extensions of the platform.

    More importantly, they can not only review the logs but also export the data and remove any entries. As a website owner, you will never miss out anything about your users, thanks to its premium action modules which can be seamlessly added to your control panel. Further by enabling the New Log Rotation plugin which allows your owners to rotate and remove the log files.

    JED Extensions to help you step up your privacy a bit further

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    For those website owners who want to stay more compliant without any further complications in the site, there are plenty of handy extensions to choose from the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED). For instance, if you need Cookie Consent, Videos embedder or a Contact module, you can have them all from the new Data Privacy extensions section on the JED. However, it is always better to seek assistance from your Joomla development partner to incorporate any of the extensions whenever you need it.

    Easy article management

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    With Joomla’s new 3.9, website owners can add custom notes to their website’s modules, different menu and categories to better manage or control their site. Besides, they can also add up the same to the articles, filter article by notes and saves the time of searching a particular content with the quick search command in the search bar.

    More freedom with Custom fields

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    A repeatable custom field is introduced with which the website owners can get more than just one value and field type for each custom field. They can even create alternative layouts for the custom fields with the new release’s supportive layout system.

    Two Bonus Features: For Frontend Enhancement

    Joomla 3.9 brought two exclusive new features that enrich the frontend functionality of Joomla websites.

    • One is the all-new way of using the Newsflash module and with that, the website users can either display the introductory or full article images in their modules.
    • There’s whole new kind of filters in the new update for enriching the versatility of the homepage. For instance, there is a new articles module which will find out the articles that are by some specific author.

    Altogether with many features improvements and to assist the users with the aspect of GDPR compliance, Joomla 3.9 is here! While it intends to add upgraded privacy tools to the platform with API extensions or easier request submissions., this new release update is ought to make content management easier, rapid and more flexible for you.

    Without a doubt, Joomla is one of those award-winning CMSes that grows and evolves daily making the lives of developers, integrators or designers easy. So, with Joomla 3.9, that is is even friendlier, boost up the performance of your site making all-new improvements and unmatched content management features.

    Want to migrate your site to the updated version 3.9 of Joomla? Or, you want a brand new website done right with Joomla? Feel free to get in touch with our dedicated Joomla experts at PHPProgrammers in Australia and our team will get you a befitting website solution with Joomla development to amplify your online presence.