Community Magazine

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!

When jQuery emerged in 2006 it was one of only a few frameworks that enabled developers to write Javascript faster using shorthand for functions and enabling daisychaining to reduce repetition.

In Joomla 5, customizable email templates have made an entrance, for core and third-party components. They cannot (yet) be added on their own, they are added during the installation.

An open source CMS that’s vibrant, community-driven, super flexible and powering millions of websites: that’s how Mahmoud Magdy experienced Joomla. It was the first ever open source project he worked on: "It was challenging at first, but I loved how it pushed me to write better code and learn from others."