Quick Icons The Quick Icon plugin group is used to provide notification that updates to Joomla! or installed extensions are available and should be applied. These notifications display on your administrator control panel, which is the page you see when you first log in to your site administrator.Default on:Quick icon - Joomla! extensions updates notification Help.Quick icon - Joomla! update notification Help
Search The search component uses plugins to control which parts of your Joomla! site are searched. You may choose to turn off some areas to improve performance or for other reasons. Many third party Joomla! extensions have search plugins that extend where search takes place.Default On:Content HelpContacts HelpWeblinks HelpNews Feeds HelpCategories Help
Captcha The Captcha plugins are used to prevent spam submissions on your forms such as registration, contact and login. You basic installation of Joomla includes one Captcha plugin which leverages the ReCaptcha® service but you may install other plugins connecting to different Captcha systems.Default on:ReCaptcha helpNote: ReCaptcha is a the trademark of Google Inc. and is an independent product not associated with or endorsed by the Joomla Project. You will need to register and agree to the Terms of Service at Recaptcha.net to use this plugin. Complete instructions are available if you edit the ReCaptcha plugin in the Plugin Manager.
System System plugins operate every time a page on your site loads. They control such things as your URLS, whether users can check a "remember me" box on the login module, and whether caching is enabled. New is the redirect plugin that together with the redirect component will assist you in managing changes in URLs.Default on:Remember me HelpSEF HelpDebug HelpDefault off:Cache HelpLog HelpRedirect Help
Authentication The authentication plugins operate when users login to your site or administrator. The Joomla! authentication plugin is in operation by default but you can enable Gmail or LDAP or install a plugin for a different system. An example is included that may be used to create a new authentication plugin.Default on:Joomla HelpDefault off:Gmail HelpLDAP Help
User Default on:Joomla HelpDefault off:Two new plugins are available but are disabled by default.Contact Creator HelpCreates a new linked contact record for each new user created.Profile HelpThis example profile plugin allows you to insert additional fields into user registration and profile display. This is intended as an example of the types of extensions to the profile you might want to create.
Editors Editors are used thoughout Joomla! where content is created. TinyMCE is the default choice in most locations although CodeMirror is used in the template manager. No Editor provides a text box for html content.Default on:CodeMirror HelpTinyMCE HelpNo Editor HelpDefault off:None
