“You don’t have to be cool to rule my world” – just like that Tom Jones could now sing seeing the changes occurring in the CMS. In posts in all forums, strong trend can be seen as having a race the latest version of CMS. This goes to the web administrators, who if he did not notice that it does not always change to a new version is what I really needed.
Sometimes I get the impression that this “disease” affecting mostly young webmasters who have probably not learned by the end of the previous versions such as Joomla! 1.5, and seeing that a new version – they want to migrate to all of her few (dozen) articles. Not to mention that they have a claim to the world why they are having problems, or why are there so few components compatible with this version.
Currently, there are so many different extensions for Joomla! 1.5 that the migration is not always needed, unless you have a lot of time, skills and usually the money to hire a specialist.
I think the biggest drawback of Joomla! 1.5 was (and still is) weak access control lists (ACL). An ACL specifies which users are granted access to objects like: articles, sections, categories, modules etc. However, the Content Construction Kit (CCK) for Joomla! named K2 (getk2.org) allows you like to have their own rights management system with Users Group, as well as add custom fields. It will allow your contributors to post, from the front side of your site without having to have backend access.
By they way, remember to publish mod_k2_login module for them. You can control who has access by setting up groups with their own restrictions. It sounds good for me, so I used it.
For this, a whole range of additional enhancements (check on JED), which increase the possibility of that, as well as other components. In summary, if you have a successful marriage (well configured joomla 1.5) do not have to divorce for a younger version.