At present we see that almost 2.8 to 3% of total Website is done by Joomla, now its great Popular day by day, since its open source matter even greatly user friendly, those who have slight knowledge on computer,he can easily create very nice website using joomla, we are working on joomla 1.5 many days, and we are also smoothly habituated with joomla 1.5, however this years launched joomla 1.6, but after not passing 6 months they again released joomla 1.7, whats the reason? i expect valued member will discuss about this post, thanks
hi there i have asked the exact same question on facebook. and here is the response i have received Joomla! Joomla! has moved to a stable-core model, in which major feature releases are scheduled every six months, with easy upgrade paths. There's much more information about our development cycle at http://joomla.org/. The short answer is: So we can bring you new features and a better CMS that much faster. July 15 at 4:37am · Like Marshall Short: I hate the way the new version doesn't automatically see the a new template. They have to be discovered.
Dear Sikandar, You are so many thanks for replied me, now i am expecting solution form you that, one of my client's site is running with joomla 1.6, but that is too slow open, yesterday i upgrade to 1.7, but now there is not enough extensions, even which extensions were installed, after upgrading to 1.7, has gone, now site is holds only article, no more attractive extensions. any body have experience, please share this matter, thanks.
well... they released Joomla! 1.7 a lil' bit earlier compared to 1.5 to 1.6 there are loads of reasons, one might be: its just a marketing scheme... anyways, there are some extensions for Joomla! 1.7, but all are paid, so good luck!
Joomla is a great cms i used ever, its community is large, so its really easy to find a solution. Joomla 1.5 framework have some limitaion like dont have any user access level we can see them in Joomla 1.6 & 1.7 also more power full SEO exactly like drupal. you mention slow for joomla 1.6, please test the load speed and optimize everything, also dont forget to enable cache. if you need any solution for your site, please post here. Thank you for using Joomla.
J 1.5 was good in its own limitations but J1.6 is far better as compared to it. I would like to know how to upgrade from j 1.5 to J 1.6 if anyone can help it....
Just the basic core component and stuff... changed how its com_content worked, pretty much like com_k2...
I meant that: The core component changed (obviously!!) and also the admin theme looks much sleek and awesome... have you ever used K2 component for Joomla!? <http://getk2.org/> The Joomla!'s main "content" component (articles, categories, sections and stuff) has been merged with K2...
I used K2 but didnt find myself comfortable with it initially & so uninstalled it...will again have a try with it...
@mostafa.kamal.dhaka : Hello, about the release cycle, it has been inspired by ubuntu project. Joomla will release a new version every 6 months. They do since Jan 2011.1.6 on 10 January 2011 >> 1.7 on 12 July 2011 >> 1.8 on 12 January 2012 and so on... Of course in the middle, there will be maintenance, minor and fixing releaseBeside that, slowness is rarely a core Joomla problem but generaly due to bad templating, scripting or hosting