Joomla 3.4 New Features

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The New Joomla 3.4 has Come Out with Some
Noteworthy Features!!
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Joomla team recently introduced the latest 3.4
version of Joomla 3.x release series, which
includes many new features. Regular updates
ensure continuous development and use of the
latest technology in this CMS. There are new
features for both end-users and developers
introduced in this release. Heres a rundown of
the key features of Joomla 3.4
Front-End Module Editing
Removal of Weblinks
Composer Integration
No Captcha Feature of reCAPTCHA Introduced
Core en-GB Standardization
Upload Shield Implementation
Options to Choose Between Beta and Stable Versions
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Front-End Module Editing In the earlier versions
whenever you wanted to edit the modules, while
being logged in on the front-end, you were
directed to the configuration page in the
back-end. This has been changed in Joomla 3.4,
where you will be able to edit pages faster and
easily without using the admin dashboard. This
feature simplifies editing the websites and also
helps you to limit the administrator access for
the users who only require access to module
configuration.
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Removal of Weblinks To lighten the Joomla
package and making Joomla more user-friendly,
com_weblinks have been removed from the core and
moved to the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED) as
these weblinks were not much used by an average
user. Within the Joomla Extension Directory, a
new category for extensions marked as
core-supported will be created. However if you
already have weblinks installed in your website,
they will continue to work and wont be taken
out. For future use, you will be able to install
them like normal extension from JED.
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Composer Integration This feature will not
attract a normal Joomla user as it is beneficial
to the developers. Composer is very popular among
the PHP developers as it is a package manager for
PHP. It is used for dependency management. The
purpose of introducing this composer in Joomla
3.4 is to easily manage external dependencies in
Joomla core as well as extensions, e.g. Joomla
Framework and PHPMailer.
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No Captcha Feature of reCAPTCHA
Introduced reCAPTCHA tool is widely used to stop
spam in websites, stopping you to post comments
or submit an online form before entering
illegible numbers or text written in a box. In
2014, Google introduced No Captcha, which eases
this task and allows authenticating your identity
as a human by just a single click. No need to
solve the puzzle and waste your time, a single
click will confirm that you are not a robot. This
No Captcha feature has been introduced in Joomla
3.4, to give an enhanced users experience.
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Core en-GB Standardization eN-GB is Joomlas
official language and this feature aims to
standardize all the core Joomla language strings
in en-GB. It has been introduced to maintain
consistency and balance throughout Joomla and
will provide easy framework and guidelines for
comfortable translation and help in expansion
across various languages.
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Upload Shield Implementation Upload Shield code
has been implemented in Joomla 3.4, which helps
to detect and protect against malicious upload of
files by checking their filenames and file
contents. This has thus provided an extra layer
of security against malicious activities.
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Options to Choose Between Beta and Stable
Versions Earlier Joomla core allowed only users
to select whether they wished to update to beta
version or stable version, beta version being
there for testing. However, Joomla 3.4 now allows
even extension developers to do the same for
their extensions.
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• Other New Features in Joomla 3.4
• Admin panel sidebar can be toggled, allowing
  you to show or hide it.
• In Media Manager, the path to the opened folder
  will be displayed.
• A new updated .htaccess file will be added to
  the new Joomla installation, enhancing the
  security by prohibiting directory listings.
• A new robots.txt file in Joomla 3.4 will
  improve SEO by allowing search engines to view
  media files of Joomla.

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Joomla 3.4 has thus brought many improvements by
introducing new features, offering various
benefits to users as well as developers. Other
than these, there are many undiscovered benefits
too, which you will come across while using this
new version. Semaphore Software can help you
take advantage of these amazing new features to
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will help you to extend the functionality of this
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are gearing up to pass on Joomla 3.4's benefits
to our clients across the globe! Feel free to
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