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Custom Plugins, part 1: General Overview

Custom Plugins

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.

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Test your Extension, Part 4: Accessibility

Test your Extension Accessibility

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....

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Tools to build a Component - 7: Joomla Component Builder

JCM - Buidling Components - Part 7

In this episode we will use Joomla Component Builder to build our example event schedule component.

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Tools to build a Component - 8: Extension Generator

Tools to build a component - part 8

 In this episode we will look at Extension Generator as a tool to to build a component.

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Tools to build a Component - Episode 1: Introduction and Core Solution

July-Components

A series of articles about tools that can help you to create a Joomla component. But we start with showing that a lot can be done with core Joomla, without building a custom component.

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Tools to build a Component - 9: Overview and Conclusion

Tools to build a Component - 9: Overview and Conclusion Tools to build a Component - 9: Overview and Conclusion

In the previous 8 episodes we looked at tools to build a Joomla component. In this last episode we’ll look back at the previous series and wrap it up.

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The Dangers and Risks of using ChatGPT to Create a Joomla Extension

AI - Dangers & risks of using ChatGPT to create an extension

We asked ChatGPT itself...

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Tools to build a Component - 6: Component Generator

Building components - part 6

In this episode we will use Component Generator to build our example event schedule component.

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Tools to build a Component - 5: Component Creator

November-Building-Components

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...

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Tools to build a Component - 4: Built-in Extras and some Setup Tools

October-Building-Components

In this episode we will expand our example component, mainly by using features that are built-in into Joomla. And we show some tools that can help us setting up a custom component.

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