Joomla! Community Magazine™

The month of February is the month of love, and Joomler's know how to spread the Joomla! love!!

Everyday there are countless websites set up on the Internet and thousands of websites built with Joomla. So if you are not actively implement the ads for your website on the search engines, it’ll gradually be forgotten. Joomla Users certainly are very interested in Joomla SEO. Beside the basic support functions Joomla SEO Setting, there are too many different choices so that you can feel overwhelming.

A fresh new site needs to be built and you’re faced with a decision. To build this site with the current Joomla! Long Term Support (LTS) release or the latest Joomla! Short Term Support (STS) release? The answer is, of course, it depends. Your experience will be different depending on the choice you make. This article will cover categories of site owners and what they expect for their sites, key points for consideration and some example scenarios.

Whether you are writing PHP code or styling a website with cascading style sheets (CSS), there are a range of tools which can make your life much easier and allow you to focus on writing good quality code quickly and efficiently. This "practical development" series of articles will focus on using PhpStorm as a development environment and will consider seven topics.

It's that time. The time of year when you start to organize your calendar and plan your events. I know, you should have done it January 1, start the year off right. You probably had every intention of making 2014 the year you were in complete control of your tasks, your projects, and your calendar. Now before you've even had time to breathe, it's February. I can't tell you how it happens but it always does - and now it has happened again. But don't worry, don't fret, and certainly don't give up on your goals. It's never to late to start planning. Which means now is the perfect time to discuss an important opportunity.

No dia 15 de Julho de 2013  tendo visto uma antiga pesquisa do ano de 2012 (nem tão antiga assim) sobre a industria do Joomla no Brasil. Resolvi fazer uma nova pesquisa, queria saber assim como queriam saber em 2012 como anda a comunidade Joomla no Brasil. Com a ajuda de algumas pessoas da comunidade formulamos as perguntas. Pessoalmente eu queria 300 respostas, mas, não conseguimos as 300 respostas, embora eu saiba muito bem que o número de pessoas na comunidade Joomla do Brasil seja muito grande. Eu me pergunto por que não conseguimos as 300 respostas. Você tem uma possível resposta ? Deixe suas conclusões nos comentários. 

Les travaux sur la certification progressent : c'est un projet dans lequel la présence des membres de la communauté Joomla! parlant espagnol est très importante ; un projet où sont représentés plus d'une douzaine de pays et de continents différents ; en résumé, un projet né de la fusion d'expériences diverses et qui marquera un avant et après dans la qualité des certifications d'un CMS.

حسنا، ها نحن، إنه الوقت المناسب من السنة أين تبدؤون تنظيم مذكراتكم و التخطيط للأحداث التي تنوون المشاركة فيها، أعلم جيدا، أنه من أجل بداية سنة موفقة، كان ينبغي عليكم القيام به من اليوم الأول من شهر جانفي، ربما كان لديكم النية لجعل عام 2014 العام الذي سيكون فيه السيطرة الكاملة على ما تبذلونه من المهام و المشاريع و كذا جدول المواعيد.

لكن، و قبل أن تأخذوا حتى نفسكم، ها أنتم تستقبلون شهر فيفري، لا أستطيع أن أشرح لماذا ولكنها دائما هكذا - و هذا هو الحال مرة أخرى، ولكن لا تقلقوا
و لا تتخلوا عن أهدافكم. لم يفت الأوان بعد من أجل البدء في التخطيط كما أنه الوقت المناسب للحديث عن فرصة رائعة قد أتيحت.

One of the most exciting areas of involvement for Joomla has been the participation of young Joomla programmers in Google Summer of Code. Their work has helped to make the software better, and has contributed to numerous articles in this magazine detailing their projects. Chad Windnagle has been coordinating this effort for the past couple of years, and he kindly took the time to sit down for an interview...

The most important feature that was released with version 3.2 of Joomla, in my opinion, is without a doubt the "Joomla Extension Finder aka Install from Web" which allows you to install extensions listed in the JED (Joomla Extensions Directory) in a simple and rapid way directly from the control panel.

Last summer, I was lucky enough to inherit many of the responsibilities as it pertains to coordinating and executing releases of the Joomla! CMS. Little did I know at the time, but there are a lot of details and individuals involved in the full release cycle. So, what exactly goes into making a release of the CMS?

This is the first in a short series of articles intended to help technical writers and instructional designers learn how to build Joomla web-help systems. However, if you’re not a professional writer, you may still have an interest in the topic. For example, maybe you’re a one-person development shop, or you work for a small company without technical writers, and you want to write and publish your own software documentation. If you fall into the latter category, you will find these articles are geared toward beginners, as most writers will have less experience with Joomla. But, I hope they will give you a few ideas on how you might build your own publishing platform.

Faisant partie de la communauté, je me demande parfois comment ai-je débuté avec Joomla! il y a 6-7 ans. Nous n’avions pas Facebook ou Twitter où demander de l’aide ou du support sur les extensions. Aujourd’hui, je me demande si les débutants savent comment chercher dans le JED. Chercher dans QUOI… ?

Chegou a hora. Aquela hora do ano quando se começa a organizar a agenda e planejar eventos. Sim, deveria ter começado em 1º de janeiro, bem no começo do ano. Provavelmente teve a intenção de em 2014 estar no controle de suas tarefas, projetos e agenda. Agora, e você mal teve tempo de respirar, já é fevereiro. Não posso dizer como acontece mas é sempre a mesma coisa - e acabou de acontecer mais uma vez. Mas não se preocupe e não desista de suas metas. Nunca é tarde para começar a planejar. O que quer dizer que agora é o melhor momento para se falar de uma oportunidade importante.

Het is weer zover. De tijd van het jaar waarop je begint met je agenda te vullen en je evenementen te plannen. Ik weet het, eigenlijk had je het al op 1 januari willen doen, om het jaar gelijk goed te beginnen. Je was waarschijnlijk van plan om in 2014 te zorgen dat je al je taken, projecten en je agenda volledig onder controle zou houden. En nu, voordat je op adem bent gekomen is het alweer februari. Ik kan je ook niet vertellen hoe dat kan, maar zo gaat het altijd - nu dus ook weer. Maar geen zorgen, maak je niet druk en geef vooral je goede voornemens nog niet op. Het is nooit te laat om te beginnen met plannen. Precies de juiste tijd dus om een belangrijke gelegenheid met je te bespreken.

The last two weeks were very interesting for me. I've gotten involved in the Joomla! Marketing team, and as my first assignment, I got to know a few very inspiring women who are part of the Joomla! Leadership.

With 160 user groups around the world, there is always something exciting and interesting happening in the Joomla! Community! This is a monthly round-up highlighting new Joomla! User Groups, events, and reviews of JUG meetings. If you have anything you would like me to feature from your Joomla User Group please send me an email atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. You must be writing from a registered Joomla! User Group (i.e. listed athttps://community.joomla.org/user-groups.html). 

Already a month has gone by in this brand new year of 2014. After the leadership took a little holiday break, as you all hopefully did, they started the engine in full mode with (re)new(ed) energy.

CMS AFRICA, an organization which creates awareness on various open source CMSs is partnering with Kenya’s premier Business Institute of higher learning, Strathmore University, to host the CMS Africa Summit. The two day summit slated for March 7th and 8th, Nairobi, Kenya, is expected to attract web designers, web analysts, app developers, web administrators, government agencies, and digital marketers in Africa.

Jetzt ist die Zeit gekommen. Die Zeit des Jahres in der man beginnt seine Termine zu organisieren und Veranstaltungen zu planen. Ich weiß, man sollte dies bereits zum 1. Januar getan haben um das Jahr richtig zu beginnen. Ihr hattet bestimmt die Absicht das Jahr 2014 zu dem Jahr zu machen, in dem ihr die volle Kontrolle über eure Aufgaben, Projekte und euren Kalender habt. Bevor ihr aber richtig Zeit zum Atmen hattet war es schon Februar. Ich kann euch nicht sagen wie das passiert, aber es passiert immer - und jetzt ist es wieder passiert. Aber macht euch keine Sorgen, ärgert euch nicht, und gebt schon gar nicht eure Ziele auf. Es ist nie zu spät um mit der Planung zu beginnen. Was bedeutet, jetzt ist die perfekte Zeit um über eine wichtige Gelegenheit zu diskutieren.