Community Magazine

You are viewing the December issue of Joomla Community Magazine, our very last one this year. Like every month, we treat you to an exciting mix of articles, tutorials and community news. 

Joomla’s built-in access control system is one of its strongest features and restricting content in this way is a very common requirement for membership sites, magazines, online courses.

I’m excited to introduce the Advanced Migration Tool - a Joomla component that helps migrate WordPress content into Joomla - and to share what I learned building it as part of the Joomla Academy.

On my site I want to have a module listing all the blog posts sorted by date. We can do this out of the box using the new mod_articles (since Joomla 5.2) module.

In the world of digital content, consistency is everything. If you are a video creator, you know the struggle: you spend days scripting, filming, and editing a video. But once you hit "Upload" on YouTube, your job isn't finished. You still need to distribute that content.

Forms are a major area in accessibility testing, and ensuring they are fully accessible is essential. Clicking the wrong link on a website might be annoying, but submitting a credit card number in a text field to the wrong recipient can be costly and may even end up in court. 

If you use Joomla, you may have heard the term “dependency injection”. But what is it and why is it important? I’ll explain it as clearly as possible, to make it understandable for non-coders too. 

Joomla.org has long served a global and diverse community of users, from those encountering content management systems for the first time to experienced developers and contributors deeply involved in open-source projects. Ensuring that this broad audience can find clarity, purpose, and direction on the site continues to be a central challenge for the Joomla project.

So you’ve installed Joomla and you’re looking at a shiny, fresh, but, most of all, empty backend. Now what? This article explains how to set up a super basic website for a small business.

Young developers looking for meaningful open source projects: this one’s for you! Dileep Adari contributed to Joomla through Google Summer of Code. He worked on enhancing content workflows in Joomla: "Matching my research with real-world impact, was exactly the kind of project I was looking for. It felt like: this is what I do, and this is where I can make a difference." 

In a world where technology often feels cold and competitive, Joomla proves that software can be human.

The CSS :has() pseudo-class is often called the long-awaited “parent selector” in CSS, enabling developers to style elements based on their children or siblings.

In November the Joomla! community met in Bad Krozingen in Germany to join this year's JoomlaDay™ DACH.

This article started with a discussion about what we could do with the articles module in Joomla, that hadn’t been done yet. I suggested, “Customising it to make it do Ajax calls so it updates automatically”

Say hi to your monthly dose of exciting Joomla news! The November issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is packed with good stuff. We have recaps from JoomlaDays, tutorials and lots of news from our wonderful community (did somebody say "elections"?).

While the 6.0 downloads growing, we look to the new release managers for Joomla 6.1. Last month we featured  Harald Leithner and now we turn our focus on Stefan Wendhausen.

On 11 October 2025, JUG043 Maastricht (The Netherlands) hosted the Pizza JUG & Fun Day, bringing together 11 Joomla enthusiasts for a day of learning, networking, and fun! 

There are a number of ways to perform admin tasks on a Joomla website. Sometimes it’s not possible to do it via the dashboard, which is when I might fall back on SQL and the database for some help.

In this series, we explore methods and tools to test a Joomla extension. In this second episode, we’ll focus on Cypress as a tool for end-to-end tests.

What does a value in a table cell mean? Simply look at the header at the top of the column and/or somewhere at the beginning of the row. But what if you are blind?