Moving your website from one CMS to another is often seen as a daunting task. For many site owners who start with WordPress but want the flexibility, power, and community of Joomla, the thought of re-creating every article, menu, and media file by hand can feel overwhelming.
Joomla’s Weblinks component is a handy tool for organizing links, but it needed a refresh to keep up with Joomla 5 standards and the upcoming Joomla 6. Through GSoC 2025, I introduced features like frontend dashboard for weblinks and a pre-configured cloud environment for testing and more. These updates let users handle their weblinks more efficiently and give developers a model for building their own extension. This article explores the changes and how they can save time for both site admins and developers.
Adding AI to your Joomla! extensions no longer need to be complicated or tied to one provider. With the new Joomla! AI Framework, you can write your code once and let your users choose between OpenAI, Anthropic, or even local models with Ollama — all through the same interface. In this article, I’ll show you what the framework does, why it matters, and how you can start using it today.
Workflows in Joomla have always been powerful, but never this visible. The new Workflow Graph Editor pulls that power onto the canvas, turning abstract configurations into something you can see, drag, connect, explain and edit in seconds.
Introduction of our four contributors and their projects for Google Summer of Code 2025.
Joomla! is proud to announce that it has been selected as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code™ (GSoC) 2025 program. This year brings exciting changes, including expanded eligibility beyond college students, allowing a wider range of contributors to participate and make an impact.
Over the years, Joomla has participated a number of times in Google Summer of Code, an initiative that empowers students to learn a lot about software development by contributing to open source projects. GSoC has shown us more than once how valuable students can be for Joomla. So what would be more logical than creating our own breeding ground? JCM interviews Philip Walton, the man with the plan. Read all about the brand new Joomla Academy!
Joomla has been fortunate to benefit from the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and other events over the past few years. Often, from these projects Joomla's core features are improved, and the members of the teams that work on these features go on to become pillars of the community. But is it now time for us to think about launching our own program alongside these and bring stability to the cycle of development?
Whenever Joomla gets picked as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) candidate there is a flurry of activity around several projects. In 2022 one of the projects put forward was Guided Tours. This is a project that has been tackled by several students over several years and each one has nudged closer to the finishing line, but never quite got there. That's why it's especially gratifying to see Guided Tours as the main feature of the Joomla 4.3 release. It's the culmination of a lot of teamwork and a great example of what can be achieved if you just keep at it.
Joomla did it for the 14th time! We are proud to announce that our application as a mentoring organisation for the 2022 Google Summer of Code™ program (GSoC) has been accepted with our individual entry here!
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