Community Magazine

Joomla is well known for its flexibility. Its menu system is powerful, its module architecture solid, and in the hands of experienced developers it can scale from simple websites to complex platforms. But anyone who has worked extensively with multi-level menus and multiple modules has likely run into a recurring frustration: the lack of module inheritance. Joomla allows modules to be assigned to specific menu items, giving precise control over what appears on each page. That level of control is a strength, but as a site grows, it can also become a maintenance burden.

If you follow my writings, you probably know that I try to use as few extensions as possible. Not because I don’t like extensions, but because I like to keep the websites I create as easy to maintain as possible. There are many cases where extensions absolutely make sense: events calendars, big image galleries, file downloads, etc. In other cases I’m sure I can handle the request with Joomla core and some overrides, because Joomla is a very powerful system.