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The August Issue

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom

Happy Birthday Joomla 🎉

This month, we're celebrating Joomla's 21st birthday. Since we're the Joomla Community Magazine, we do this with content - in this issue, you'll find a number of entertaining 21-themed articles.

Our President, Elisa Foltyn, took a different approach: she ran 21 kms, while telling us Joomla's history! And it's all on video, we've included the video below.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Stacked So High I Can Almost Touch the Moon)

Details: Written by: Brian Teeman

Twenty-one years ago, Joomla was born.

At the time, none of us knew what the future would hold. We had an idea, a belief that there was a better way to build software for the web, and a determination to create something that would give people the freedom to publish, share and build online.

What we could not have imagined was the journey that would follow.

21 Improvements That Can Make a Difference to a Website

Details: Written by: Louise Hawkins

Twenty-one years is a long time on the web.

During that time, the way we design, build, find, use and measure websites has changed enormously. Devices have changed. Search has changed. Accessibility expectations have changed. Analytics has changed. And now artificial intelligence is changing how people discover and interact with information yet again.

CSS Shorts: light-dark()

Details: Written by: Viviana Menzel

Do you want to set up a dark mode with CSS? Here's how! The light-dark() CSS function is baseline (works across the latest browser versions) since May 2024 and allows you to easily create a dark mode for your website.

21 Things that were there before Joomla - and that we still love and enjoy

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom

“Wow,” someone said when I told them about Joomla's 21st birthday, “21 years, that’s pretty old. And it’s still alive and kicking, you say?” You bet it is, just like these 21 things we use every day that are (sometimes much) older than Joomla! Age ain't nothing but a number.

Extension developers, it's time to mark your security updates

Details: Written by: Allon Moritz

Software security isn't just about fixing vulnerabilities anymore, it's about communicating them effectively. With the upcoming Joomla 6.2 release, extension developers can now mark an extension update as a security release, allowing Joomla to clearly highlight security fixes from regular feature or maintenance updates. It may seem like a small addition, but it's an important step towards a more secure Joomla ecosystem.

How to automatically run a task in Joomla?

Details: Written by: Herman Peeren

In Joomla we can automatically run tasks. Several standard tasks are shipped with Joomla, of which some are scheduled by default. But how do you run tasks? What settings do you need? We’ll show you step-by-step how to do that.

The robots have changed, and your robots.txt hasn't

Details: Written by: Philip Walton

There is a file on your Joomla site you have almost certainly never opened. Joomla put it there the day you installed, it has sat quietly ever since, and it is currently telling every crawler on the internet what it may and may not look at. It was written for a web where the only things crawling your site were search engines wanting to send you visitors.

21 Things Only Joomla Users Understand

Details: Written by: Louise Hawkins

Twenty-one years is a long time in technology. Long enough for features to arrive and disappear, terminology to become archaeology, updates to become migrations and perfectly sensible developers to develop strong opinions about cache.

Joomla at 21: Finding the Golden Ratio in Our History

Details: Written by: Richard Gosler

There is something rather satisfying about Joomla turning 21.

Twenty-one is, after all, a Fibonacci number. For those whose school maths has become a little hazy, the Fibonacci sequence begins: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…

21 Reasons to attend the JWC

Details: Written by: Nadja Lamisch

For more than 20 years, Joomla has been a powerful, reliable, and community-driven CMS that brings people together around the world. After many years, the Joomla World Conference is finally returning — and to celebrate Joomla’s 21st birthday, here are 21 reasons why YOU should be part of it.

Why we don't publish everything

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom

At the Joomla Community Magazine, we aim to provide content that informs, connects, and benefits the community as a whole. And even though we’re a magazine by the community, for the community, we won’t publish everything that’s brought to us. Here’s why.

You got hacked. So what?

Details: Written by: Serge Billon

The recent wave of hacks on CMS-powered websites has brought into sharp focus the question of whether a site can be attacked.
Let’s get the uncomfortable question out of the way right away: It’s not “Will my site be hacked?” but “When will my site be hacked?”

Funding Open Source in a new era…

Details: Written by: Emmanuel Lemor

In today’s ultra-connected digital world, it is very easy to forget that everything we do is tied to and dependent on technology. What overwhelming makes this all possible?

Open Source and the tireless volunteers that power this global movement.

Joomla is older than...

Details: Written by: Brian Teeman

On 17 August, Joomla turns 21 years old.

Twenty-one years.

In human terms, that's old enough to buy a drink almost anywhere in the world.

Does AI Make It Easier For Websites To Be Hacked?

Details: Written by: Dan Atrill

Everyone’s talking about AI and how it can do everything for you. But that can mean bad things as well.

How a Joomla Component Junkie Fell in love with the Astroid Framework

Details: Written by: Paul Staub

Up until the early 2020s I had a site loaded with so many components, plugins and templates that it became impossible to maintain. I relied heavily on one particular battleship-like suite of components and a particular complementary framework. All subscription models, mostly paid and a few free ones thrown in for good measure. When the large component
developer started quietly exiting the Joomla ecosystem I realised how delicate the whole construction was.

When AI Turns on Your Code - the impact of AI hacks on extensions developers

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom

We’ve all seen it happen: over the last few weeks, there have been a growing number of security issues, discovered and sometimes actively exploited with the ‘help’ of AI. What impact does this have on our extensions developers? JCM found three extensions developers willing to talk about this.