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The September Issue

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom

You’ve probably seen it on the socials or read about it in earlier issues of the Joomla Community Magazine: next month, the Joomla World Conference will take place in Potsdam, Germany. A lot of JCM team members will attend this event and we’re all looking forward to it. One of the best reasons to be there is that it’s not just a sit-down-and-listen event. We get to meet each other in real life, learn a lot, have fun and do stuff together (for example: there will be a maintenance sprint during JWC, you can read more about that in this issue). We’d love to see you there!

Also in this issue: your monthly dose of tutorials and how-to’s, the latest updates on the Accessibility Project that aims to enhance Joomla’s state of the art accessibility even more, interviews with our re-elected Vice President and Outreach Department Coordinator, awards to vote for, community news and so much more. Don’t read this editor’s intro, start reading the articles by our fabulous authors!

One More Day of Maintenance – Joomla 7.0 Sprint at Joomla World Conference

Details: Written by: Benjamin Trenkle

Joomla World Conference starts on Friday. We’re starting one day earlier: on Thursday, 15 October, the Joomla Maintenance Team will meet at the conference venue in Potsdam for another hands-on sprint towards Joomla 7.0.

Canonical Tags: The SEO Checkbox Nobody Asked For

Details: Written by: Brian Teeman

Don't use a canonical tag to tell Google which of your mistakes it should ignore. Fix the mistake.

Thank you Hans van der Meer

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom

Hans van der Meer has been active in our community for many years. He coordinated a user group, JUG Arnhem-Nijmegen, was a member of the JoomlaDagen team, and co-organized the Joostock Unconference (all in the Netherlands), and he was a longstanding member of several international Joomla teams. Now that he is leaving us, we feel it is only fitting to express our gratitude to this special, wonderful, kind and dedicated Joomler.

JCM interview: The Vice President’s Vice President (Emmanuel Lemor)

Details: Written by: Philip Walton

Emmanuel Lemor has just been re-elected Vice President of Open Source Matters. I had that job myself back in 2023, so when the chance came up to sit him down and ask what it is actually like from the inside, I took it rather too quickly.

Letting the right robots in

Details: Written by: Philip Walton

Two thirds of Google searches now end without anybody clicking anything at all. People ask, they get their answer on the page or in a chat window, and they never arrive. You cannot fix that by wishing, and you certainly cannot fix it by writing more blog posts into the void.

Round Two: Richard Gosler on Joomla’s Next Chapter

Details: Written by: Louise Hawkins

Richard, congratulations on your re-election as Outreach Department Coordinator!

You’ve now completed your first term in the role and described it as a considerable learning curve, sometimes stressful but also very fulfilling.

The J!Awards Nominations Are In — Here's What Happens Next

Details: Written by: Cyril Reze

Nominations for the very first J!Awards closed on 13 September 2026, bringing an exciting first chapter of this new community tradition to a close. Launched on 17 August to mark Joomla's 21st anniversary, the J!Awards: Community Choice Awards

We are looking for Joomla maintainers

Details: Written by: Benjamin Trenkle

Someone has to maintain Joomla. Fortunately, it is not just one person.

Joomla! and Rutgers Join Forces Again to Shape the Future of Open Source Matters Website

Details: Written by: Laura Gordon

Community Participation Invited for the 2026 Open Source Matters UX Research Study!

Joomla Accessibility Project: From Planning to Action

Details: Written by: Robert Deutz

When we introduced Joomla’s accessibility programme in the July issue of the Joomla Community Magazine, the project was just getting started. The organisational foundations were being put in place, the first milestone was underway, and the Joomla community was preparing for a programme that will run for the next 20 months.

Joomla Accessibility: The Results of Milestone 1a

Details: Written by: Robert Deutz

Accessibility is one of the central goals of Joomla's current development programme. As part of the accessibility project funded through the Sovereign Tech Fund, Joomla is working on improving accessibility across the CMS in a structured, measurable way.

Joomla translators improve AI translations

Details: Written by: Krishna Gandhi

In June I described a feedback loop that would learn a community's terminology from the corrections translators make. It is built now. Here is what it does, what happens when it translates content it has never seen, and how to try it on your own site.

Beyond the Bullet List: Overriding a Joomla Subform to Build a Real Speaker Directory

Details: Written by: Robin Clapp

A technique from “A Day of Code” - turning a plain data list into a designed component. If you’ve ever built a Joomla site for a conference, a class, or any event with a roster of presenters, you’ve probably reached for a Subform custom field. It’s the natural tool for the job: a repeatable little group of fields - name, position, headshot, bio - that content editors can duplicate as many times as they need, one entry per speaker.

Security issues do not tag you as a bad developer

Details: Written by: Allon Moritz

If you develop Joomla extensions, sooner or later you will probably receive an email that starts with something like:

“We have discovered a security vulnerability in your extension.”

One Item, More Than One Place: My GSoC Journey with Joomla

Details: Written by: Reda Mohamed

Let your article shine in more than one category.

During Google Summer of Code 2026, I worked on a Joomla feature called Multi-Categories. The idea is: Every item in Joomla (article, contact, banner, news-feed) belongs to a main category and from now on it also can belong to other categories.