After Joomla 3.5 Beta released series, Joomla 3.5 Stable is out on 22nd March 2016 as a great boom with a hug improvements compared to previous series. With the contributive effort of many Joomla Experts, version of Joomla 3.5 contains nearly three dozen new features which enables you to build wonderful Web sites and powerful online applications.
Do more with Joomla 3.5
Now, continue with the post of Joomla 3.5 , this post will provide a glance at 8 main new features that Joomla great community added to Joomla! 3.5
- PHP 7 Support: The most importance change for PHP since the release of PHP7 in November 2015 is to provide a significant performance boost to your website without adding any hardware.
- Update Notifications via Email: IF you want to maintain your site secure and stable, keep Joomla core up to date. Now a Joomla plugin will check the new version of Joomla core periodically. Whenever a new version found, notification email will be sent to Super User
- System Information Export: All the required information of system for supporting purpose now can be collected with just one click
- Drag and Drop Images: Image now can be added directly into content via the feature of Drag and Drop Images
- Anonymized System Data: In order to understand Joomla users better, the core Joomla team created the plugin to collect anonymously Joomla Version, the PHP, database type and version that user is running so that the accurate version of PHP and MySQL can be specified for future Joomla Versions.
- Easily Insert Modules in Articles: Joomla 3.5 enhances the action of adding ad module into an article more easier with a button on editor toolbar. Even you do not know about the syntax or the module, the UI will do it for you!
- Content Status Reports: The report about the number of published, unpublished and trashed articles in every category will help Admin to manage the structure of the site easier.
- Easier Customisation of Protostar Template: User now no longer worry about the risk of customization of Protostar Template. You can stlye the Template using your own user.css. All changes to this file will not be overwritten on an update.
The Joomla 3.5 Full Package is now available here
Find more useful document of Joomla Document here
How to upgrade to Joomla 3.5?
Always back up your site before updating
You can find more useful information of upgrading Joomla at link. This section will focus on the task of upgrading 1.6.5, 1.6.6, 1.7.x, 2.5.x to 3.x
There are two ways to updating joomla 3.5:
- Update via Joomla Updater component
- Update via Installation method . The Joomla 3.5 update package can be found at link
Any Extension for Joomla 3.5?
A collection of 10 diverse extensions for Joomla 3.5 that can help you build and maintain your sites.
- Geek Form Builder Componen: A powerful form generator for Joomla. You can create fantastic forms including customer survey, application form, contact form in a matter of seconds without coding.
- Geek Landing Page Builder: A standalone Joomla plugin was specifically designed with inbound marketing best practices in mind and will help you drive and convert more leads for your business.
- Geek Layer Slider Module: A multi-purpose Joomla Extension for developing a layer slider for any content type like image galleries, text, video and mind-blowing slideshows with must-see effects.
- Geek YouTube Component: The powerful Joomla extensions, which provides you the easiest way to search and import directly resources from YouTube into your Joomla articles.
- Geek GoogleMap Module: Module provides you the easiest way to integrate Google Maps into your site. Add markers can be customized with text, images, links description and custom icons.
- Geek Slideshow Module: A great way to create stunning image slider and posts slider for your Joomla website. The plugin supports images and Joomla articles . It is also commonly used by webmasters and bloggers to showcase portfolios, artwork, latest posts, etc. It saves time and efficiently draw visitors’ attention!
- Geek Popup Plugin: Joomla Extension allows users to easily collect all images of an article into a simple gallery by automatically grouping function then shown it on top or bottom of the article. User can also enable plugin settings for the category listing view, this is a useful feature for listing websites
- Geek Masthead Module: A moduke is used to display a masthead with titles, images, videos and a short description.
- Geek Facebook Embed Module: A great module that bridge the gap between your site and social presence.The module allows you to embed Facebook post and vide from a Facebook page.
- Geek Article Utilities Plugin: The most common used features in an article including Disqus comment, social sharing buttons, Facebook comment and Open Graph meta tags.