Summary

One of the most pleasurable things about working with Joomla! is the encouragement of openness and friendliness amongst the members of the Joomla! community. It is, without a doubt, the community that is driving the Joomla! project. The name ‘Joomla!’ is derived from the Swahili word ‘Jumla’, meaning ‘all together’. The Joomla! community lend a true sense of jumla to the project.

In this chapter we have seen that there are essentially six types of extension: components, modules, plugins, languages, templates, and tools. As we have seen, each type has a very specific use. We have lightly discussed the way in which extensions of different types can be dependant upon one another.