Community Magazine

When this issue of the JCM comes out, Joomla 6 has just been launched. A new major version of your favorite CMS has seen the light of day 🎉. And if you know our awesome, well-structured roadmap, you're probably not even a bit surprised by that, because it was announced ages ago: major new versions every two years. Which is, you guessed it, now, for Joomla 6.

In your opinion, what is a WOW-factor? Is it fancy features, shiny stuff or glittering gadgets? When it comes to content management systems, the WOW- factors may lie in completely different things.  

With the release of Joomla 5.4 and Joomla 6.0 on 14 October 2025, the Joomla project introduces a significant innovation: automatic updates for the core system. This feature makes it possible to keep Joomla installations up to date reliably and without manual intervention – an important step towards increasing the security and maintainability of Joomla websites.

Joomla 6 is out and it brings a great example of a Child Template with new options for colors and font sizes. 

When managing a website, content changes are inevitable. Articles get updated, pages evolve, and information needs to stay current. But what happens when you need to undo a change or review who edited what? That’s where content versioning in Joomla comes in.

Unless you've been on a media lockdown in the past few weeks, no doubt you'll be aware that a major new release of Joomla! (6.0 to be specific as well as an updated 5.4) has been released. And as with all new software products, we're promised a faster, sleeker and all-round sexier experience.

In this series, we will explore methods and tools to test a Joomla extension. In this first episode, we’ll focus on PHPUnit for running tests. A practical guide: how to set it up, what to test, and… what not to test.

In October 2025, members of the Greek Joomla community, led by Bill Kotsias, were invited to speak at the University of the Aegean in Samos. Their goal: to introduce Joomla — one of the leading open-source CMS platforms — to students and educators in Greece.

Are you a young developer looking for open source projects to contribute to? Joomla ticks all the boxes, says Charvi Mehra, who had the opportunity to work on an AI integration framework for Joomla: "You get to work on real projects, grow your skills, and connect with amazing people from around the world."

Ask any project manager: the #1 reason websites launch late isn’t code, it’s content delays. The truth is, a CMS is only half the story. Publishing comes after collecting. Without a good process for gathering content, even the best Joomla site struggles to launch. Content strategy is concerned with an organization’s selection, creation, maintenance, and distribution of its content over the web.

With Joomla 6 in the downloads portal: people updating their sites and building new sites on a fresh Joomla 6 install, attention now turns to Joomla 6.1. Now we turn to interview its release managers Harald Leithner and Stefan Wendhausen. 

In the September Issue of the Magazine I started a new CSS Series with short explanations of modern CSS properties and functions. Today’s article is about Subgrids.

Under this somewhat provocative and enigmatic title, I would like to discuss a syndrome that is common in the community, and I am pretty sure you will recognize it.

Setting up a local web development environment on Windows has long been a chore. Traditional AMP stacks like XAMPP or WAMP can feel clunky, slow, or outdated. Enter Laragon — a sleek, modern, and lightning-fast local server environment designed to make web development effortless.

A new edition, another location. For 2025 the team decided to organise the JoomlaDays Netherlands in Utrecht at Crowne Plaza hotel, closeby the Central Station.

Buttons.
Yes, buttons. Have you ever noticed how often you click one? It probably seems effortless — after all, you can see the button, use a mouse, or tap a screen. But have you ever stopped to think about what it takes to make a simple button usable for everyone?

I cannot believe that it is already a month after the third annual Open Source Congress (OSC), which took place in Brussels, Belgium, on the 16th and 17th of September 2025, hosted by the Eclipse Foundation. This event served as a key global summit for open source leaders.