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Joomla vs. Drupal Terminology


Joomla and Drupal have different terms:


  1. Joomla Template = Theme in Drupal.
  2. Component = Module in Drupal.
  3. Module = Block in Drupal.
  4. Mambot/Plugin = Input filter in Drupal.
  5. Menu-Horizontal = Primary Links in Drupal.
  6. Menu-Vertical = Navigation in Drupal.
  7. Dynamic Content Item = Story in Drupal.
  8. Static Content = Page in Drupal.
  9. Back-end = no back-end in Drupal, but some modules provide a similar interface.
  10. SEF = Clean URLs .
  11. Section = Taxonomy Vocabulary/Term
  12. Section Title = Taxonomy Term (master)
  13. Category = Taxonomy Term (child)
  14. Introtext = Teaser in Drupal.
  15. Maintext = Body
  16. Pathway = Breadcrumb 


On the other hand, there are other terms which are the same, as:

forum discussion / editor / search / region / comment / subject/title /  preview/ html tag / view /edit / advertising/banner /log in/log out / RSS feed /


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