Updates in Joomla New Version 4.0

Joomla is a free and open-source Content-Management-System that provides a platform for publishing different kinds of web content. Joomla has won several awards in the past years. Its foundation is a “model–view–controller” web application framework that users can use independently of the CMS, allowing you to create compelling online websites and applications.

Joomla is a highly popular website software with a global community of developers and volunteers, ensuring that the platform is user-friendly, extendable, multilingual, accessible, responsive, search engine optimized, and so much more.

Joomla can be used for the following:

• Corporate websites or portals, intranets, and extranets
• Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
• Government, non-profit and organizational websites
• Community-based, school and church websites or portals
• Small business websites
• Personal or family homepages.
• E-commerce and online reservations

Joomla 4.0 comes with better User Experience and a More Powerful System for the developers. If we look at the key new features added to Joomla 4.0, we have the following list:

• Installing Joomla within a blink of an eye: Easier, Faster and very User-Friendly installation process
• New User Interface: Its back-end and front-end User Interfaces are changed and have become trendy as per the latest Application UI standards
• More accessible Templates: Much more templates are added into the System for users to choose from
• Media Manager has been full revamped: It comes with New Image editing capabilities with cleaner User Interface
• Renovation of Publishing Workflow: Users can manage the articles in an advanced and customizable way
• Introduction to the new Web Services: You can access content from other Websites, and you can utilize the same in easy Mobile App creation
• New Security Measures have been introduced with PL/SQL writing support
• New HTML based Email Templates make Email writing for the users, more natural and with a lot of customization options
• Command Line Interface has been improved and expanded
• It comes with a stronger & more powerful codebase: It helps the developers to build more powerful, innovative & robust applications with the usage of PHP namespaces. It also provides the Applications more scalability.
• Merging of Joomla framework Power into the Content Management System
• Event Dispatching System has been revamped

There are initially Alpha versions launched for Joomla 4.0, and we call them as Alpha 10 and Alpha 11. Let’s look at a few of the differences.

Joomla 4 Alpha 11 includes these following features:

• Bug fixings are done from Alpha 10 version
• Merging of Joomla 3.9.5 and 3.9.6 releases
• Introduction of a new Back End template — Users can use the Joomla 4 Admin module from the Mobile Devices. It comes with more WUSIWUG feature and a lot more fun to use the interfaces
• Users can upgrade Joomla 4.0 from Joomla 3.9 by following only a few steps
• Introduction of new CLI commands

Joomla 4 Alpha 10 version used to contain these following:

• PHP version 7.2
• MySQL version 5.6
• PostgreSQL version 11.0
• Minimum browser version is set to n-2
• Internet Explorer support has ended

Joomla 4.0 Documentation related Tips

There are tutorials available for Joomla 4.0. The tutorials are related to Module and Plug-ins explanations, Namespace Conventions, Prepared Statements, etc. Joomla developers write their code documentation and remarks on docs.joomla.org Website, and this community brings a lot of information to the world with new suggestions, extension issues, bugs, and plug-ins issues.

Does Joomla 4.0 come with noticeable advantages?

Yes, Joomla 4.0 comes with a lot of advantages. Following is the list.

• Bootstrap 4.0 based New, improved core UI
• Introduction of more Joomla framework packages
• Refactoring of the Event Management System
• Opening of a new Service Container for Global Dependency Management
• Removal of Mootools from the codebase. You will still find JQuery, but not in the core
• Introduction of Framework agnostic web components
• Page Loading time is faster
• Media Manager is newly introduced
• There are significant improvements in the MVC layers
• Front-end template Aurora
• Back-end template Atum
• New Login Page
• New back-end Admin Dashboard
• New Notification Panel

How to Install Joomla 4.0?

1. Enter your Website name
2. In the Alpha version, only English is available as a language
3. Set up Login Details
4. User Name, Password, and Email for the Joomla Site
5. Setup Database Connection
6. Putting MySQL database information. The database type would be MySQLi. Hosting would be local.
7. MySQL Database Wizard will create a Database and a user in the cPanel.
8. Joomla is “installed successfully”- the screen appears.

So this was all about the new updated Joomla 4.0.