Community Magazine

The JCM Team is proud to present you the November Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.

Have you ever shared a link on Facebook only to find the thumbnail was missing, or there was a different picture than you expected? If you don't explicitly tell Facebook what image to use then it makes a guess.

What is the current state of Joomla’s documentation? What’s new and different? What are the future plans? How can you help?

A few years ago I created a free website using launch.joomla.org. I registered the website specialist.joomla.com and created a Joomla 3 website with an English and Dutch page with a small description about my (business and volunteer) work.

As we continue exploring the different aspects of optimization, the quantity of information is vast.
In this edition, we will cover Content, SEO, and User Experience... This is of course just a highlight and many more things could be said about each topic... 

There are jobs, behind-the-scenes jobs, that not many people want to do, because they require hard work, rigor and seriousness, but also the ability to work as part of a team without necessarily being in the spotlight and reaping the glory. Nadja Lamisch possesses these qualities and has successfully carried out the mission entrusted to her: treasurer of Joomla.
At the end of her term, she stood for re-election and was re-confirmed in her post. This well-deserved re-election was well worth an interview to get to know the woman who holds the purse strings.

Power to imagination! In Joomla 5.2, the brand new Articles Module was introduced, a super flexible module that enables you to showcase your articles. In this article, Viviana shows us how you can use this module to create an Advent Calendar. Get inspired and unleash your own creativity!

In the previous article, we got acquainted with the capabilities of the Joomla smart search component, talked about the parameters and configuration of scheduled indexing using CRON. Let's start creating the code for our own plugin.

Our journey until now In this series we want to show some tools that can help to build components for Joomla. The first four episodes were mainly to introduce the example, show some implementations of it without building a component and...

Haven’t migrated your Joomla 3 website(s) because it uses J2Store and you’re not sure what will happen? Dreading the moment that J2Store pulls the plug and you would need to have that uncomfortable client discussion about moving to a new ecommerce solution? Fear no longer: J2Store will be continued! Olivier Buisard and Adam Melcher are working on it as we speak, and new versions have been released already. Read all about The Fork, The Developers and The Plans!

The passion for computer science was always one of my favorite topics to discuss. With this in mind I would like to present Ane Miren Alvarez, a talented Web Developer who has implemented the Joomla API within the automation tool Make, an “integration that allows for automated workflows and processes within Joomla” as she describes it. 

A lot of people wrote about how to migrate a site on Joomla - first to version 3, then it was up to 4, and now to 5. And in fact, if you follow the instructions, usually everything goes well and smoothly. But this is if you do not have a bunch of different components, modules, plugins installed, that can cause problems after the migration.

When it comes to videos, podcasts and Joomla streamers, one name always stands out: Tim Davis!

Is it any coincidence that this real-life pastor is so enthusiastic about sharing both his knowledge and his passion for Joomla!
We asked him about his relationship with the community and how he came to produce such interesting and valuable videos.

They are everywhere, they are coming as fonts, sprites and SVGs. They have different forms and outlines. They can be super helpful - if you respect some rules for usability and accessibility.

The issue of accessibility is highly topical in the business world, as well as in local authorities. In the web domain, this concerns the hearing and visually impaired, as well as certain dyslexic disorders, and even cognitive disorders.