The Category Item Counter - developing a new feature
Channel: Rowan Hoskyns Abrahall
Date: 13/02/2016

By Peter Martin

How does a new feature end up in Joomla? Peter will talk about the new Category Item Counter feature that will be available in Joomla 3.5:
- the purpose of the feature
- where & how the idea for the "Nice" feature originated
- how the community helped to develop this feature
- how Joomla's development cycle works, including patch testing  procedure, and who's Travis?
- the problems with differences in core components
- the hidden secret of com_categories
- how to add a Category Item Counter to your own component