{"id":44,"date":"2023-04-15T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T09:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.componentgenerator.com\/blog\/?p=44"},"modified":"2023-04-15T11:16:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T09:16:34","slug":"frontend-editing-view-templates-and-15-new-field-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/componentgenerator.com\/blog\/frontend-editing-view-templates-and-15-new-field-types\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontend editing, view templates and 15 new field types"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We&#8217;ve been looking forward to introducing to you an even better Joomla Component Generator.<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>View templates<\/h2>\n<div>We&#8217;ve introduced a new concept called view templates. It&#8217;s a way to determine how the view should look and feel. At the moment we allow adding the basic template and a blank template for frontend list and detail views. We will continue adding more templates, and you&#8217;re welcome to request specific ones. 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