The August Issue

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August 2020 marked an important milestone in the Joomla's story.
In fact, on August 17, the Community celebrated the 15th birthday of our beloved CMS and Open Source Project.

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15 milestones in 15 years

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It all started with a...fork.

Fifteen years ago, a group of people decided to follow their vision and principles and take a different path than the one that was planned for the future.

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The Joomla! Identity Portal

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On May 16, 2020, the Privacy Compliance Team announced the release of the Joomla! Identity Portal, a new website that is meant to serve as the home for all Joomlers’ personal data and as Single Sign On service to access all the *.joomla.org websites.

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Meet a Joomler: David Jardin

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David Jardin made his first website at the age of 13, for his brother’s football team. He got involved in the German Joomla community a couple of years later. David, who’s a sucker for good food and nerdy conversations, started his own business as a freelance web developer and became more and more active in the community.

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Joomla Web Services API 101 - Tokens, Testing and a Taste Test

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Joomla 4’s new Web Services API will give you the ability to create a range of new integrations for Joomla.

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Joomla extensions: where to find them?

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With all its options and all kinds of custom fields available in the core, Joomla is a pretty complete content management system. But sometimes you need functionality that is not among the core features. A webshop, for instance,  enhanced forms, a newsletter, e-learning platform, a gallery or a different template. For these purposes you can use an extension.

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Getting extensions ready for Joomla 4 - Marco Biagioni (J! Extensions Store)

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While the development of the new major version of Joomla, the 2nd most used CMS worldwide, is in progress, the Joomla Community Magazine is continuing interviewing Joomla extensions developers to understand their own path towards Joomla 4. This month we had the chance to interview Marco Biagioni, the man behind J! Extensions Store, a renowned brand in the Joomla sphere, with its flagship JSitemap Pro extension.

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The EU-US Privacy Shield Framework invalidated by the Court of Justice of the European Union

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On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) published their highly anticipated ruling in the Schrems II (Irish Data Protection Commissioner vs. Facebook & Schrems) case.

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Kids build websites - new blood for the Joomla project

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From 14 to 19 April 2020 the German-speaking Joomla community started the project "Kids bauen Webseiten” (Kids build websites).

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The Impact of the EU 2019/1150 Regulation on eCommerce and Marketplaces

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In mid-July of this year, the Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 20, 2019, went into effect. The P2B regulation aims to increase fairness and transparency for businesses that use online intermediation services.

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Accessible Resources for Joomla 3.x

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«Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see» (M.Twain):  with an accessible template we can really do it!

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Community Openings - August 2020

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Would you like to get more involved with Joomla? Read more about this month’s highlighted volunteer positions below.

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