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The June Issue

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom

Our previous issue, in May, was the first one that was published using only the Joomla core for the publishing workflow. Before that, we used an extension, EasyBlog, to handle the process of approval and scheduling our content. The Joomla Community Magazine is a monthly magazine; each new issue goes live on the 20th of the month.

Of course a monthly publishing workflow for a magazine, with authors, editors and content neatly structured in categories, is something that can just as well be done with Joomla core. But in 2020 the decision was made to use EasyBlog for this, and migrating an existing magazine is a whole different ballgame. How we made our move from EasyBlog to just Joomla? You can read it in this issue.

Plus: get to meet our new President, Elisa Foltyn, read about awesome features nobody has bragged about so far, meet four young developers who are working on improving core functionality, find out why people are going to the Joomla World Conference, and much, much more.

Stop Lazy Loading Your Most Important Image

Details: Written by: Brian Teeman

Website performance has never been more important. Faster websites provide a better experience for visitors, rank better in search engines, and often convert more visitors into customers. One of the most important performance metrics measured by Google's Core Web Vitals is Largest Contentful Paint (LCP).

From OWA to the Classroom: Joomla Workshop at HTL Rennweg

Details: Written by: Sigrid Gramlinger

What if Joomla learners - at schools, universities, or community workshops - could earn verified, standardized credentials for the skills they actually have? That question turned into a real project, and on June 8th, 2026, it was put to the test for the first time: in a classroom in Vienna, with web development students and a freshly built basic Joomla skill tree.

Joomla World Conference: meet us there!

Details: Written by: Anja de Crom

Not sure if you should attend the Joomla World Conference, this October in Potsdam, Germany? Allan, Gianluca, Thomas, Ufuk, Roland, René and Richard share with us why they’re going. We hope they inspire you to join them this year!

Login with Passkeys: the best Joomla feature you have been ignoring

Details: Written by: Philip Walton

Be honest. When you spin up a fresh Joomla site and you spot that login option you do not quite recognise, do you turn it on, or do you quietly disable it and reach for a password like you always have?

Meeting Joomla's New President: A Conversation with Elisa Foltyn

Details: Written by: Serge Billon

Some faces need no introduction.
Elisa Foltyn has been part of the Joomla family for well over a decade — Design Lead, former Vice-President, member of the Backend Template Working Group, speaker, trainer and writer.
You may even remember her from these very pages, where we once spoke with her as a Joomla user. Last month, the community welcomed her in a new role: President of Open Source Matters.
After a presidency that stayed empty for several months for want of a candidate, Elisa stepped forward. A few weeks into the job, she kindly took the time to answer our questions — about where she's starting from, the challenges ahead, and how she sees the future of Joomla and the work of the board.

Joomla Maintenance Team Sprint: First Steps Towards Joomla 7.0

Details: Written by: Benjamin Trenkle

June 6th. The Joomla Maintenance Team sat down to do something we've been threatening to do for ages: actually remove that deprecated code we've been nagging people about.

Leadership interview Ufuk Avcu - Treasurer

Details: Written by: Nadja Lamisch

Ufuk Avcu is a long-time member of our community and especially well-known in the German speaking community. Having already been involved in marketing, he has now taken on the role of Treasurer within the Board of Directors of Open Source Matters (the non-profit organisation that facilitates Joomla). Thank you, Ufuk, for taking on this important responsibility.

From Being Afraid to Becoming a Joomla Contributor

Details: Written by: Reda Mohamed

What happens when one item naturally belongs to more than one category? That's the challenge I'm working on in my Google Summer of Code project with Joomla, the project that introduced me to open source.

Making the Joomla Backend More Responsive

Details: Written by: Adarsh Dubey

Some of the biggest improvements in software don't come from adding new features. They come from removing the tiny interruptions we've learned to accept without question.

The Joomla Community Magazine: A Journey to Joomla Core

Details: Written by: Viviana Menzel

How we managed the migration of the Joomla Community Magazine from EasyBlog to Joomla Core.

Joomla User Group - Organizer Meeting (Calling JUG Leaders)

Details: Written by: Laura Gordon

It’s that time of year again! The Joomla User Group (JUG) team is excited to invite current and aspiring JUG organizers to our leadership meeting.

Whether you're running a group or considering launching one, this is your opportunity to connect, share, and learn with others from around the globe.

The Quiet Features of Joomla 6.1

Details: Written by: Brian Teeman

When a new Joomla release arrives, attention naturally focuses on the headline features. Those are the features that appear in release announcements, social media posts and conference presentations.

But some of the most useful improvements are the ones that quietly arrive in the background.

Reuse the experience of Joomla translators

Details: Written by: Krishna Gandhi

Machine translation is fast, but it doesn't know the words a community has spent years agreeing on. My Google Summer of Code project adds a feedback loop to Joomla that learns those words from the corrections translators make, so its translations get better over time.

Building Something That Runs Without You

Details: Written by: Weno Ndum Billy Hans

That feeling of building something that works without you is what drew me to this project. But to understand why this matters to me, you need to know where I started, the “Genesis” of it all.

My First JoomlaDay USA Experience

Details: Written by: Ahmad Moussa

When I received my acceptance to speak at JoomlaDay USA 2026, I was excited, honored, and honestly a little nervous.

This wasn't just another Joomla event for me. It was my first visit to the United States, my first JoomlaDay USA, and my first time speaking at a Joomla event in America.

Joomla Day USA – Benefits of Being There!

Details: Written by: Anne Garger

I have used Joomla to develop my clients' websites for over 10 years. I find it to be more powerful than other CMS I have used but it comes with a steeper learning curve. Fortunately, the Joomla community that supports its users is as outstanding as the software. I have benefited tremendously from the many ways I have received support from the volunteers in the Joomla community.

From Issue to Release - the Joomla Development Workflow

Details: Written by: Christiane Maier-Stadtherr

Our GSoC student Reda Muhamed asked: How does Joomla work? How does an idea actually find its way into the Joomla core? The answer is surprisingly interesting. It all starts with an issue on GitHub. See how many steps are necessary and how many people - users, testers, developers, maintainers, release managers and more - are involved until a new feature or bug fix finds his way into the Joomla core.

Joomla Has No Corporate Arm - And That’s a Strategic Advantage for Agencies

Details: Written by: Brian Teeman

A prospective client once said something that many agencies in open source will recognise immediately:

“We’d prefer to work with the company behind the CMS. It feels safer — they’ll know it best.”

It’s a reasonable assumption. If a platform has a “founder’s company” or official commercial arm, it feels natural to assume they sit closest to the roadmap, the architecture, and the future direction of the product.