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The February Issue

February

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!  

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Sustainable Web Development with Joomla! - Part 2

Sustainable Web Development Part II

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.

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Do more with the Joomla dashboard

How to customize the backend

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.

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A Core Awakening

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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. 

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Joomla Academy is ready for take off - Join us!

oomla Academy - how is it going?

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!

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A Tutorial to Make a Tutorial

A tutorial to make a tutorial

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.

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Joomla 5 email templates - how to add variables via plugin

Joomla 5 email templates - how to add variables via plugin

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.

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Thank you Luca Marzo!

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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!

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Geraint Edwards, The man behind JEvents, YourSites and EasyLayouts

Geramin Edwards: The man behind JEvents, YourSites and EasyLayouts

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?

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Interview with the all-rounder Tuan Pham Ngoc!

Interview with the all-rounder Tuan Pham Ngoc!

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...

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Lost Your Work? Here's How TinyMCE Can Save the Day

How to recover an article you forgot to save

We've all been there: you're working on an article in Joomla and close it without saving. Gone is your work - or isn't it? Brian Teeman explains how to retrieve an article you hadn't saved yet.

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An insight into a Joomler: Robin Clapp

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If you spend some time around the web, social media and Joomla, you will most likely at some point hunt around a couple of Facebook Groups in/around the topic of Joomla! and if you do, inevitably (or at least for your sake I hope so) you will come across a group called: Website Design Company Owners - using Joomla! or possibly a mention of the Small Business JUG (more on that later)... that is how I came across the kind, humble and always seen smiling Joomler that is Robin Clapp.

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Do we still need jQuery or should we stick to the script?

Do we still need JQuery or should we stick to the script?

When jQuery emerged in 2006 it was one of only a few frameworks that enabled developers to write Javascript faster using shorthand for functions and enabling daisychaining to reduce repetition.

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Celebrating the Amazing Women of Joomla with Alison Meeks

Amazing Women in Joomla: Alison Meeks

This month we have with us another amazing woman of Joomla. The lady who, for more than a decade now has been the voice of Joomla’s social media, Alison Meeks. I always liked to call her the Angel of Joomla because Alison saved the day in multiple instances, a fact that serves as a demonstration of her dedication to her role and her love for Joomla. Alison has been one of the most valuable and devoted volunteers in the Joomla community.

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What is the Code along JUG and who is it for?

What is the Code along JUG and who is it for

There's a new Joomla User Group in town! Or not exactly "town": it's online. The Code Along JUG is a User Group for everyone interested in coding (regardless of experience level). Meetings take place on Zoom on every third Sunday of the month. 

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Volunteers needed - this is your chance to contribute to Joomla!

JCM - Call for Volunteers

You’ve probably heard or read it more than once: Joomla needs volunteers. Without people, new releases take longer and have less exciting features, documentation remains incomplete and bugs take forever to get fixed. But who do we need, and what would they be doing? 

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Tools to build a Component - 7: Joomla Component Builder

JCM - Buidling Components - Part 7

In this episode we will use Joomla Component Builder to build our example event schedule component.

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The January Issue

January

The JCM Team is proud to present you the January Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine, the very first edition of 2025. Check out what this issue has to offer! 

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Joomla in 2025: new inspiration, new discoveries, and precious moments

JCM - Happy 2025 - New Inspiration & Discoveries

Happy New Year 2025, dear Joomla community!

As we step into this new year, we want to take a moment to celebrate everything that makes Joomla so special: you, the members of this caring and passionate community. 2025 is a significant year, marking 20 years of Joomla, 20 years of innovation, collaboration, and connection.

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Sustainable Web Development with Joomla - Part 1

JCM - Sustainable Web Devolpment - Part 1

The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, and sustainability is no longer just a buzzword – it's a necessity. As businesses and developers strive to reduce their environmental footprint, sustainable web development has emerged as a critical focus. 

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