Plugins

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.

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Content Help
Contacts Help
Weblinks Help
News Feeds Help
Categories Help

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.

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Remember me Help
SEF Help
Debug Help

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Cache Help
Log Help
Redirect Help

Content plugins run when specific kinds of pages are loaded. They do things ranging from protecting email addresses from harvesters to creating page breaks.

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Email Cloaking Help
Load Module Help
Page Break Help
Page Navigation Help
Vote Help

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Joomla Help

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Two new plugins are available but are disabled by default.

Contact Creator Help
Creates a new linked contact record for each new user created.
Profile Help
This 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.