What's new in Joomla 3.7?

Custom fields

Custom Fields, or adding additional fields in Joomla is a fantastic extension in Joomla 3.7. You can add optional fields to your articles and users.
The fields you can create with the following types:

• Users
• User group
• Integer
• Calendar
• Radio button (radio)
• Color
• List
• Image list
• Media
• SQL
• Checkboxes
• Text line
• Text area
• Editor
• URL

These field types are plugins, therefore it will also become possible to develop your own field types.

Multilingualism Associations

This is an improvement for mulitlanguage configuration. A component will be added that will make it easier to start translating texts. The articles will be displayed side by side in the different languages. When you save the articles, the association is automatically made between the two articles, something you always had to set up manually before.

Improved feature languages install

Until now you had to create the "language content" manually by entering the country codes, which could be confusing because we had to know what is the label or original title of the language we are configuring. In Joomla 3.7, it will be created automatically once you install a language package in Joomla.

Options of the global settings are shown

You cannot remember all settings of all settings related to global options. Now the default options including their values are displayed in an overview. So you don't have to go back and find what the (default) settings are.

Backend Menu Manager

In addition to the ability to create a menu for the frontend, as of Joomla 3.7 you can also create your own backend menu. This will be a useful feature for developers who need to deliver a website for their client and want to keep the menu as simple as possible.

Flat UI for the administrator

A new flat UI design has been created for the administrator area, the backend of Joomla This makes the whole thing look completely 2017 again.

TinyMCE Update

There will be a new TinyMCE editor plugin that allows you to easily add, move or remove buttons.

In Joomla 3.7, there will be some new buttons in the TinyMCE editor. For example, there will be a "contact" button to insert a link to a contact and a "menu" button to insert a link to a menu item in the content of the article. Custom fields will also have their own button added.

In addition, there are currently 3 levels of TinyMCE editor functionality: Simple, Advanced and Extended. Each of them displayed a different set of buttons on the editor toolbar. Probably in Joomla 3.7, additional sets of buttons will be available such as drag and drop in the toolbar. This feature give you freedom in toolbar configuration because you decide where will and which buttons is displayed on the editor toolbar. This way you can create your own editor for each user group.

Improved media manager

The new Joomla media manager will be equipped with significant changes and enhanced features. This will give users more control over uploaded images. Users can crop images, resize, rotate and run basic filters in the backend of their website. The media manager will also have functionality for creating thumbnails of different image sizes and it will also include options for labels to the uploaded media files.

New date and time selection option

This is a minor change that is being implemented, but the date and time select option has been improved.