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In episode 2 of our series about building custom plugins we will look at task plugins. With a task plugin you can schedule tasks that you want your website to do. In this article we’ll show how to create your own plugins to execute all kinds of tasks.

Joomla 6.0 shipped on the 14th of October 2025, the culmination of about a year's work by Gary Barclay and me as its release managers. We then carried on as caretakers of the 6.0 line for another six months, until Harald Leithner and Stefan Wendhausen shipped Joomla 6.1 on the 14th of April 2026. That was the moment our term came to its natural close.

Last month we met Charvi Mehra, the first of two release managers steering Joomla 6.2 towards its October 2026 release. Now we turn to Martin Kopp, a 30-year IT veteran from Switzerland who leads the Bug Squad, mentors GSoC students, and was part of the MCP server discovery sprint that explored AI-powered Joomla administration. Martin co-managed Joomla 4.4 alongside Allon Moritz and returns for 6.2 with experience and, as you will discover, a sideline in DJing.

This is the start of a series of articles about building custom plugins. We will start with some general information about plugins and creating them. In subsequent episodes of this series we will take a closer look at specific plugin types and their peculiarities.

With Joomla 6.1 now available, attention turns to what comes next. Joomla 6.2 is scheduled for release on 13 October 2026, and at the helm are two release managers who bring very different backgrounds to the role. This month we meet Charvi Mehra, whose journey into Joomla began not through code but through a university semester project in Delhi.

Are you a young developer looking for ways to contribute to open source software? So was Rahul Singh. He joined the Joomla Academy to work on the Advanced Migration Tool, a component that helps migrate WordPress websites into Joomla.

In this series, we explore methods and tools to test a custom Joomla extension. In this fifth and final episode we’ll check if your extension is secure.

The Joomla project has invested considerable effort in making the CMS accessible to everyone. With every release we continue to improve this even more. Joomla’s core does well. The Joomla Community Magazine has published extensively on accessibility over the past years....

Sharing your experience shapes Joomla’s future. You can guide the next generation of Joomla talent. Joomla will grow from it, and you too. 

Students looking for an opportunity to contribute to open source development and work with the best on a great content management system: this article’s for you. People who know their way around Joomla’s code and want to share their knowledge and help shape Joomla’s future: this article is for you. Read all about the Joomla Academy coming to life!