Community Magazine

At its core, ambush marketing is simple: one organisation pays to create attention, and another steps in and captures that attention without paying for the privilege.

As software projects mature, the challenge is not only managing technical debt, but also preserving the understanding behind the decisions that shaped the code in the first place.

For years, one of the biggest problems with ecommerce in Joomla has not been features. It has been philosophy.

With Joomla 6.1, a small but powerful enhancement was added to the TinyMCE editor: dedicated buttons for inserting, editing and removing the HTML <abbr> element.

In Joomla 6.1, custom fields just got significantly more flexible. Until now, the Media custom field type only let you select images but thanks to a core enhancement in Joomla 6.1, you now have dedicated field types for audio, video, and documents in addition to images. (github)

Open source does not work by accident. It works because people show up. We often describe that effort as "giving back". It’s a useful idea, but it may also be limiting how we think about contribution.

Joomla is calling for a new President of Open Source Matters and it’s not just about having a title. It’s about empowering the community, lifting others up, and helping Joomla move forward together.

The Joomla World Conference 2026 is coming — and this is your opportunity to be part of it.

When most people think of Joomla, they think of a traditional content management system that handles everything: storing content, managing users, rendering templates, positioning modules, and outputting complete HTML pages. For the vast majority of websites, that integrated approach makes perfect sense.

You don’t need a badge to polish to contribute to Joomla. You just need to roll up your sleeves and do it.