Joomla!

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Joomla! is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. It is written in the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database by default. The system boasts cool features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization.

The Joomla! package consists of multiple parts, which are built with hope of being able to easily make extensions and integrations. An example of this are extensions called "Plugins" (also known as "Mambots".) Plugins are background extensions that reinforce Joomla! with new functionality. The WikiBot, for example, allows the author of Joomla content to use "Wikitags" in Joomla! articles which will auto-create dynamic hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles when displayed. There are over 3,100 extensions for Joomla! available via the Extensions Directory.

In addition to Plugins, there are a number of more comprehensive extensions available. "Components" allow webmasters to perform such tasks as building a community by expanding user features. They can backup a website, translate content and create URLs that are more friendly to search engines as well. "Modules" perform such tasks as displaying a calendar or allowing custom code like Google AdSense etc to be inserted within the base Joomla! code.