Joomla extensions rarely, if ever, show their update information in their interface. Joomla has two features which can already do that.
Joomla has a centralized interface for displaying and managing update: System, Update, Extensions. You can use this interface to force Joomla to reload the extensions' update information which can come in handy if there was any kind of network problem in the past which caused Update Sites (update information sources) to become unpublished.
The extensions' update status is also shown in the Joomla! Control Panel page –the page you see when logging into Joomla– as a module called Notifications. We strongly advise having this enabled.
If you have unpublished it you can republish it from Content, Administrator Modules. If you have deleted this module on your site you can create a new Administrator module of the type Quick Icons. Use the following parameters for it:
- Title: Notifications
- Group: update_quickicon
- Header Icon: fas fa-sync
- All other options: Hide
The notifications in the module are generated by the plugins in the quickicons
group. You can manage these plugins from System, Manage, Plugins. The plugin which shows notifications for extension updates is “Quick Icon - Joomla! Extensions Updates Notification”. If you have accidentally disabled it, please re-enable it.
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