Community Magazine

It is not the first time we write about how to make the Joomla backend a nice place to work — for yourself and for your customers. In this article we collect and refresh practical tips and tricks, ordered from the simplest tweaks to the more complex backend menu changes. 

The Joomla World Conference 2026 is coming — and this is your opportunity to be part of it.

In the first part of this article I wrote about the planning around the conference website. I described the content types and the functionality we want to have. Now I will show you what happens after a speaker submits a talk.

You landed on a website and it felt like someone punched you in the face. The typography was a chaotic mess, the navigation seemed utterly lost, and the colour palette was aggressively disturbing. It felt less like a user interface and more like the design had grabbed your heart in a fist and started squeezing. Welcome to the world of brutalism in web design.

Behind this phrase lies not yet another article on how to create and restore a backup – not that the subject isn’t interesting, but it’s been covered so thoroughly in the Joomla community. No, today we’re going to talk about our relationship with others and with ourselves: a highly philosophical subject, isn’t it? So what could it be?

In this series, we explore methods and tools to test a custom Joomla extension. In this fifth and final episode we’ll check if your extension is secure.

Are you a young developer looking for ways to contribute to open source software? So was Rahul Singh. He joined the Joomla Academy to work on the Advanced Migration Tool, a component that helps migrate WordPress websites into Joomla.

Serving on any board can be quite rewarding and is often a thankless job that requires much time and probably never more so than in an all-volunteer organization like Joomla.

Every year a number of Joomlers come together at the Unperfekthaus (love the name) in Essen. For what? Nobody knows in advance. All we know is the timetable (and that at least one of the days there will be Currywurst). A recap of an unforgettable event!

When Firefox 148 rolled out in late February 2026, it broke something important: TinyMCE, the default editor in Joomla, started flickering and became unusable. First it appeared only in Firefox Developer Edition, but with the final version all Firefox users were...

To say that AI has taken a foot hold in every aspect of our daily lives is undeniable... (even if sometimes we don't even realize it's there)... but how did we get here? ... and is it positive, negative, or neutral and how will it shape CMSes in the coming years... 

Like every month, the lovely Joomla Community Magazine team has managed to write magnificent and beautiful articles on a variety of topics. To name a few: new features, how-to's, tutorials, community interviews, recap of Joomla's participation at FOSDEM and the opportunity...

Joomla 5.2 quietly introduced a powerful new content feature: native accordions in TinyMCE, powered by standard HTML rather than JavaScript. This gives content creators an easy way to add collapsible sections while keeping markup clean, accessible, and future-proof.

Building a conference (or any other) website doesn’t begin with design; it starts with a clear plan for content and functionality. As developers and organizers, we know a beautiful site is useless without a strategically organized approach. In this article we'll explore how to make the most of Joomla Core to build a conference website that delivers.

Every PBF there’s at least one participant that hasn’t had the ultimate Pizza, Bugs and Fun experience before. The excitement. The questions and doubts beforehand. And, eventually, the realisation that, yes, you are good enough and your contributions matter. Morteza Honar was the lucky one this time. Read all about his first PBF!

What happens when you organize a massive PBF event at not one, but two of your workplace locations, with 30 participants? Read and find out!

The Joomla project has invested considerable effort in making the CMS accessible to everyone. With every release we continue to improve this even more. Joomla’s core does well. The Joomla Community Magazine has published extensively on accessibility over the past years....

In January 2026, a small but focused group of Joomla contributors - Martin Kopp, Stefan Wendhausen, Niels Braczek, and David Jardin - came together for a discovery sprint to explore how the Joomla CMS could be enhanced with an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server.

You don’t need a badge to polish to contribute to Joomla. You just need to roll up your sleeves and do it.

Joomla enthusiasts, this one is for you: from April 29 through May 1, 2026, Delray Beach Florida is the place to be. JDay USA presents 3 days of Joomla, and the good part is: you can attend virtually as well.