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The June issue

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The June issue

Putting together the Joomla Community is a very satisfying job. Each and every month, my Co-Editor Claudia and I get to see a huge variety of articles, written by you, members of the Joomla Community. So it is with great pride and joy that we present to you the June issue of the Joomla Community Magazine!

This month, you can read how you can help shape Joomla's future or make valuable contributions now, find out which new features are coming (SEO out of the box as well as a tool to migrate your WordPress site to Joomla), why you shouldn't rely on automated tools alone to fix the accessibility of your website, and how to create page transitions for your website, with CSS.

Are you coordinating a Joomla User Group? Heads up: there's a global meeting coming, don't miss out on that! And if you consider yourself a (wannabe) Joombassador, read The Pink Elephant Paradox and check how you can be contribute to Joomla's 20th Birthday Party!

Full list of this month's articles:

 

Louise Hawkins
Joomla Academy's Journey So Far and What’s Next!
Laura Gordon
Joomla User Group - Organizer Meeting - July 8, 2025
Christiane Maier-Stadtherr
The Blind Spots of Accessibility Testing Tools - Alt Text
Brian Teeman
The Pink Elephant Paradox: Why Joomla Can't Just 'Not Be' Something
JCM Team
Advanced Migration Tool coming to Joomla!
Emmanuel Lemor
How to make your clients think Joomla?
Carlos Cámara
Together we grow Joomla: Podcasting - Simple Tools, Big Impact
JCM Team
Improved SEO for Joomla
Herman Peeren
How to contribute to user documentation
Dan Atrill
Animate Your Page Transitions With CSS
JCM Team
Joomla! 8 - The future is planned now
Angelika Prox-Dampha
Celebrating 20 Years of Joomla

This release wouldn't have been possible without the work of the Community Magazine Team, all the authors and all the people who patiently answered our questions.

Thanks to those who participated! Your contribution is very valuable to us.

The Call for Authors for the Community Magazine is always open, we are eager to receive your articles.

If you want to write for the Magazine, regularly or just once, drop us a line at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Contributed to this issue:
Anja de Crom (Co-Editor), Claudia Weber-Lenck (Co-Editor), Sandra Decoux (Creative Team), Viviana Menzel (Author & Maintainer), Louise Hawkins (Author & Creative Team), Herman Peeren (Author), Dan Atrill (Author, Editor, Creative Team), Emmanuel Lemor (Author), Christiane Maier-Stadtherr (Author), Carlos Cámara (Author), Angelika Prox Dampha (Author), Laura Gordon (Author), Benjamin Trenkle from the Producion Department (Author), Mohd Shahzan (Author), Rahul Singh (Author), Brian Teeman (Author) and Luca Marzo (Contributor)

We want to thank also all the developers, leaders and volunteers who dedicated their time to answer our interview questions. The Joomla Community Magazine wouldn't be possible without the continuing work of all the volunteers contributing to Joomla. Thank you all for being awesome!

Some articles published on the Joomla Community Magazine represent the personal opinion or experience of the Author on the specific topic and might not be aligned to the official position of the Joomla Project

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Joomla Academy's Journey So Far and What’s Next!

About the author

Anja de Crom

Anja de Crom

Anja de Crom

Before I got my current job as Coordinator Communications & Digital, I ran my own company for 25 years. The first 15 years I was a writer / editor / journalist / writing coach. 

In 2009 I started working with Joomla, not knowing anything about webdesign. I joined a JUG in 2012, two months later I was co-organizer :) (and stayed co-organizer for about five years).

I loved working with Joomla so much that I started projects, just to be able to create a website for them. That's when I thought: hey, maybe it's time for a career switch. In 2014 I decided to go pro with Joomla and switch to webdesign instead of writing. 

Volunteer work

I already mentioned the JUG. After that I did a number of other things over the years:

  • Writer: I wrote articles about Joomla in a Dutch webdesigner magazine.
  • Speaker at JUGs and JoomlaDays.
  • Member of the Dutch JoomlaDagen team for three years.
  • Member of the team that organized all three editions of Joostock (a Joomlacamp/unconference event).
  • Editor of the Dutch Joomla web agency brochure, a brochure webdesigners can use to convince their potential clients that Joomla is the right choice for them.

In 2020 I've started contributing to the Joomla Community Magazine, first as an author, and since 2022 I'm Team Leader of the wonderful Joomla Community Magazine Team. 

Why I contribute to Joomla

To many people Joomla is just a tool. But if you look a little closer, you'll notice it's much more than that. It's a living system, raised and nourished by a community of volunteers dedicating their time to make it the best CMS ever. Without volunteers, Joomla wouldn't exist. It's not 'just a product'. Everyone who uses Joomla, can do so because someone, somewhere, contributed to it. I want to give back to the community that keeps Joomla alive.

And, probably needless to say: I love being part of that community. 

Contributing to Joomla by volunteering brought me so much: valuable experience, more knowledge and a better understanding of Joomla and its community, and the opportunity to work together with a crowd of lovely people all over the world.

 

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