Is Joomla secured?

Wonder if joomla is secured?

I'm looking to build a joomla news site. any recommendation ?
toby

 

It's a very, very active community and security is a very high concern. I'm not sure how it compares to other CMS's, but I'd say it's quite good.

Many folks use it for their ecommerce solution. Make sure you follow all the suggestions for making it secure.

 

where can i find the news template?

any idea where to start? I'm new to joomla but serioulsy thinking of using it.

 

Go to Joomla.com and then the Extensions list at the top.

Under Content and News (lower left) there are 47 extensions listed for News. I've never tried any of them.

Some are commercial license, but most are not.

Make sure you're relatively happy with the site, as when you change out extensions you may very well change the URL and end up with a lot of broken pages in Google's index.

 

the core of joomla is completely secure - it's what you start adding on third party products that things can get problematic, especially if you don't regularly update.

There are some great Joomla templates out there - there is a great news-based template out there somewhere. I tried to find it but couldn't.

It's well worth investing in iJoomla New Portal if you are going for a news site.

 

If I was about to build a Joomla site now I'd wait until 1.5 is released - it's currently at Release Candidate State One.

It's going to be a big jump and I'm not sure how this will effect some seo aspects of the site like the url address.

 

Yeah, that's the scary part. What will happen to the URL's....?

 

Rocket Themes has some of the best templates:

http://www.rockettheme.com/

This site has many free templates:

http://www.joomla24.com/

 

i heard that drupal is better in SEO perspective, so now i'm in dilema with drupal and joomla..hmm.

 

They are bringing in sef url's as a part of the core - as you know, you have to have a third party extension for that at the moment.

I haven't looked at 1.5 at all so I have no idea how this will work in practice and how the change over will effect urls...

 

Don't know much about drupal. I use jpromoter for sef urls http://joomlaequipment.com/content/view/4/19/

You can customize titles, urls, metas, etc.
Has been working great for me, but also has created some server load.

 

is the 1.5 out yet? if not, how long more before it's coming out? would love to wait till that SEO part is fixed.

cheers,
toby

 

I don't think they have given a date - but personally I would wait until 1.5 is out before setting off on a new joomla voyage. It's currently at RC1 stage, so probably RC2 and then final version.

 

look like; it's gonna be 1 years from now? how abnout drupal? any idea how good it is? compare to joomla? i wonder if's it's good idea for using dupral? it's for news /traveling site.

 

This is a pretty good comparison guide:

http://www.alledia.com/blog/general-cms-issues/joomla-and-drupal--which-one-is-right-for-you?/

(I think Joomla 1.5 will be ready sooner rather than later - certainly no where near a year)

 

Just in regards to security and Joomla it is worth looking at this page for security vulnerabilities for some components:

http://help.joomla.org/component/option,com_easyfaq/task,view/id,186/Itemid,268/

I had an email today from jomsecurity regarding the following components:

- DocMAN v1.3 RC2 - No solution available yet
- iJoomla Magazine - Latest Version Vulnerable! - New version to be
released later today
- Slideshow v0.2.2 - Latest version from http://www.bpixel.com is
v2.0.2
and is ok
- SchoolInfo for CB - v1.0 RC 2 - No Solution available yet

While other components found this week alone with security problems are:

- SimpleFAQ
- JoomMap
- GMaps v1.00
- BibTeX v1.3
- EventList v0.8
- NiceTalk v0.9.3
- RSFiles v1.0.2
- Remository
- NeoRecruit v1.4

The lesson: check for updates weekly!!

 

Toby Joomla is secure, there are some components that comprimize the security


have a look at www.joomlart.com and view the demo's and look at ja teline, can get it for you for $5

Let me know

 

joomla is the most secured cms that i know.

just one tip for joomla secure: if you are not going to change joomla configuration.php, make chmod 644 for it.

 

I agree joomla is secured but theres lot of hackers is always try hacked joomla site, and joomla.org the home of joomla also has been hacked, you can read here http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,203000.0/topicseen.html and http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,203076.0.html

So I think, no one is safe from hackers