Community Magazine

The JCM Team is proud to present you the February Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine, with something in it for everyone: tutorials and how-to's, interviews and community news. Enjoy, and if you like an article, don't forget to share it on your socials!  

In Sustainable Web Development with Joomla! - Part 1, we explored how Joomla enables sustainable web development by promoting energy efficiency, resource optimization, and eco-friendly practices. Key steps included selecting green hosting solutions, writing clean code, minimizing JavaScript, optimizing fonts, and leveraging Joomla's built-in functionality to reduce server load. Emphasis was also placed on user-friendly, accessible design to enhance performance and inclusivity.

As a web designer or developer, you work hard every day to create beautiful and efficient websites. But what about the Joomla Dashboard? Do your clients tell you Joomla is too difficult, or do you still struggle with illogical menus, unnecessary tabs, and a pile of information you never use? Good news: you can fully customize the admin panel to your needs! No more frustrations - just a backend that works for you.

MyWoodlot.com is a website we developed to help forest landowners make good choices when it comes to managing their land. The site is now 10 years old and has transitioned through two (very different) website developers, the latter leaving me shaken to the core. 

Students looking for an opportunity to contribute to open source development and work with the best on a great content management system: this article’s for you. People who know their way around Joomla’s code and want to share their knowledge and help shape Joomla’s future: this article is for you. Read all about the Joomla Academy coming to life!

In this tutorial you can learn how to make a tutorial.

A tutorial is a lesson that takes you by the hand through a series of practical steps. It offers a learning experience by doing something. It is the best way to get to know a subject you are not yet familiar with.

In Joomla 5, customizable email templates have made an entrance, for core and third-party components. They cannot (yet) be added on their own, they are added during the installation.

For years Luca Marzo has been the memory, or even the one-person encyclopedia of Joomla. He served eight times as Secretary of the Board of Open Source Matters, and during those years, Luca came to be Joomla’s very own Google equivalent for everyone, regardless of what you’d need to know: “Ask Luca”. And now this has come to an end. Time to give Luca a proper thank you!

If you're a Joomla user, you've probably already heard of JEvents, YourSites or EasyLayouts. But do you know the man behind these essential extensions?

There have been many people involved in Joomla over the past 20 years; some build websites for clients, some help for a time by promoting Joomla, some others contribute their time to a Joomla! Team, some build an extension, and others write code to fix, or improve a functionality in Joomla!... and then, some are all-rounders: they do most if not all of the above...