Community Magazine

This tutorial explains how to add extra fields to the Joomla Contact form using Custom Fields. The process uses core Joomla functionality, requires no third-party extensions, and is fully upgrade-safe.

You’ll learn how to create a field, configure permissions correctly, control where it appears on the form, and ensure submitted values are included in the contact email.

Small layout changes can make a big difference to how content is perceived. One of the most effective improvements you can make to a category blog layout is to treat the leading article differently from the rest — visually signalling that it matters more.

So you’ve installed Joomla and you’re looking at a shiny, fresh, but, most of all, empty backend. Now what? This article explains how to set up a super basic website for a small business.

This article started with a discussion about what we could do with the articles module in Joomla, that hadn’t been done yet. I suggested, “Customising it to make it do Ajax calls so it updates automatically”

The CSS :has() pseudo-class is often called the long-awaited “parent selector” in CSS, enabling developers to style elements based on their children or siblings.

On my site I want to have a module listing all the blog posts sorted by date. We can do this out of the box using the new mod_articles (since Joomla 5.2) module.

Gradients are powerful for adding depth, highlights, or visual interest to backgrounds, buttons, and overlays. All with pure CSS. Head over to your user.css and spice up your Joomla website!

We’ve all been there, clicking a link full of promise, only to land face-first in the dreaded “404 Not Found.” It’s like opening a door and finding a brick wall. For your visitors, it’s a frustrating dead end. For you, the site owner, it’s an opportunity.

Is it possible to create a timeline using only Joomla core? You probably already know the answer: yes, with a little override and a few lines of CSS ;-). This article explains how to do it using the Articles Module in Joomla. See it in action here: Joomla Milestones 2005-2025.

If your website (or your client’s website) features blogs or articles by multiple authors, you may want to have author pages showing their bio and links to the articles they’ve written. Here’s how to do that with Joomla’s core contact component.