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  1. Switch roles

    This allows a user to switch temporarily to another role so that they can see what the pages would look like to someone with that role. A user can only switch to roles he/she can assign

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      0 comments  ·  Site Administration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    • A map of positions of the templates

      When I get install a new template in Joomla and I want to add a module in a specific position, I literaly have to guess the name of te position where I want put the module.
      Names like user1, user2, user3 are not intuitives.
      And many times some positions seems dosen't work.

      A position map like the cheat of:
      /index.php?tp=1
      but in the back-end of the modules and a little more complete and readable

      23 votes
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        1 comment  ·  Site Administration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
      • Decrease loading time

        As everyone know, Joomla websites have a real problem with loading time. It's very important to decrease loading time so a new instalation should be fully loaded in less than 3 seconds.

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        • Shop System

          Joomla is ready to be a shop. The only thing is missg is a working cart and product to articles

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          • Remove username field since email must be unique

            Since the email must be unique I think that the usage of the username ends to be unnecessary

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              4 comments  ·  Site Administration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
            • 21 votes
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              • Task Scheduling

                Build a system to allow for scheduled tasks to be triggered via external script or request.

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                • Be able to control title tag, meta desc, on each article... and also on each menu...

                  Basically, eliminate the need for bloated SEO components to just handle title tag, meta desc, etc... should be able to set that on each article page, and each menu, then also build something in to handle 301 redirects... the fewer components the better.

                  21 votes
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                  • Faceted Search

                    Instead of playing catchup - go for the home run

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                      2 comments  ·  Search  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                    • Register by user group

                      With new ACL in 1.6, it is absolutly necessary to include a group selector in the registration form. Meaning if you create user groups for teachers and students with different access levels for each, instead of making the admin change the user from a registered to a teacher or student, it should be an option for user to select group at registration. What prevents students from registering as a teacher? An additional field for a passphrase would be added for the teacher group, that of couse would be easily distributed to the teacher before registration. Currently this can be done…

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                      • J! with PostgreSQL database

                        Get possibilitly to connect J! with MySQL or PostgreSQL

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                          6 comments  ·  Site Administration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                        • administrator login page captcha

                          enhance administrator login page with captcha option.

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                          • A commitment to the Joomla MVC Legacy classes for 3.5 and 4.5 LTS releases

                            Joomla 1.6 introduced new MVC subclasses like Admin, List, Item, and Form. Let's make a commitment to maintain these 9 classes through the next two LTS releases. This will give some stability to extension developers, and provide a date certain when components need to be upgraded.

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                            • Duplicate Content

                              Automatic duplicate content check-up and other essential features like custom title tags.

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                                0 comments  ·  SEO/SEF  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                              • Registration forms

                                We need to create/customize the registration fields from admin Then that will be easy to create and manage them easily.Now we are depending on the third party extensions or own coding...

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                                  2 comments  ·  Site Administration  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
                                • Doctrine as Joomla's database layer and/or ORM

                                  Doctrine is a very mature and powerful ORM. The widely used framework known as Symfony relies on int as one of its main ORM plugins. Sometime before Doctrine 2.0 they split the product into two components, a database abstraction Layer (DBAL; can be used stand alone) and the ORM.

                                  In order to make Joomla compatible with more DBMS (even MongoDB), an integration with these frameworks could really benefit the project (and the developers) rather than reinventing the wheel, as Doctrine DBAL has an extremely portable SQL language (its compiled into different DBMS SQL with portability configuyration) and Doctrine ORM has…

                                  20 votes
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                                  • Custom fields in content

                                    Possibility to add customs fields in articles, like in Wordpress. For example you can add article_img field with a value, and get this value by adding $this->article_img in your template etc etc. The limit is only your fantasy.

                                    19 votes
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                                    • add link to each module title

                                      Build a system which has a feature to add link for each module titles.
                                      thanks

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                                      • categories should expand or contract

                                        Categories in level different from the 1st should should be expandable (and of course collapsable) in a sort of tree. When a website has many categories (and subs) it's a really a problem to managing them! Try to manage a website in wich are described towns and their provinces, their regions, their nations... is quite a feat :-)

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                                        • Compatibility with Oracle database

                                          Compatibility with Oracle database

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