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Peter Martin has been active in the Joomla community since 2005. He is one of the Global Forum Moderators. In the past he has been active as Joomla 5.2 Release Manager, in the Community Leadership Team, Operations Department Coordinator, Board of Directors, Mentor for Google Summer of Code (GSoC).

In April 2025 he started as Treasurer at Joomla Netherlands Foundation (Stichting Joomla Nederland), and became active in the Website and Marketing Working Group at Dutch Open Source Business Alliance (DOSBA), a representation of Open Source focussed IT-Companies based in The Netherlands.

With his company db8 Website Support (db8.nl) Peter supports since 2005 companies and organisations with Joomla and YOOtheme Pro support and custom Joomla extension development.

Peter loves to share his knowledge and frequently does Joomla and Linux-related presentations at Joomla and Linux User Groups and conferences.

In his hometown Nijmegen (Netherlands) Peter (co-)organizes: Joomla User Group Arnhem/Nijmegen, Linux Usergroup Nijmegen and Open Coffee Nijmegen (a monthly networking event for small businesses).

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Articles

19 April 2025

What is the Joomla Framework and how can you use it?

When people think of Joomla, they often think about the Joomla CMS, which is a great system for building websites. But Joomla is more than only the CMS. Under the hood, there is something else: the Joomla Framework.

19 April 2025

Goodbye Joomla 5.2!

With the release of Joomla 5.3.0, the Joomla 5.2 series has come to an end. That also means my job as Release Manager for Joomla 5.2 is now done. A new team took over for the Joomla 5.3 version and will continue building and maintaining the releases of Joomla CMS.

20 November 2024

My Joomla 5.2 experiment: a 35 Languages Multilingual Landing Page

A few years ago I created a free website using launch.joomla.org. I registered the website specialist.joomla.com and created a Joomla 3 website with an English and Dutch page with a small description about my (business and volunteer) work.

20 November 2022

How my new Joomla 4 website got hacked

At a quarter past midnight, just when I went to bed, I decided to check my email. I was away in the Ardennes (Malmedy, Belgium) with a few work friends.

20 December 2020

The Making of “The Best Website”

Peter Martin was annoyed by bad websites, got inspired by some packaging, and built a multilingual Joomla website in 5 languages under 5 Top Level Domains about the best practices for websites.

01 September 2015

Joomla – The next 10 years?

This year Joomla has its 10th anniversary. So, on to the next 10 years... What will Joomla look like, 10 years from now, in 2025? A couple of current trends might change the way we work with, and how we look at, websites in the future. The main change regarding websites (and thus Joomla) is that there will be a shift in sharing information via HTML web pages to linked structured data exchange via (web) applications.

01 July 2015

Category Item Count: To a Generic Solution

Last month I described how a new feature was developed to count the number of articles in each category. At the end of the 2nd day of JoomlaDay France 2015, the feature was working… that is, it counted all articles (for com_content) in the Category Manager for Articles. I got it working by adding a hard-coded “if extension = com_content” check in the Category Manager. That’s not a solution but a workaround, I was fully aware of that.

01 June 2015

Category Item Count: A Possible New Feature?

How does a new feature end up in Joomla? This is a story about how a new feature is developed and how it might get into a next version of Joomla. From conception, to development, to community feedback & help, to testing, and (hopefully) to adding it to the core code. The story you are about to hear is true; only the names have not been changed to credit the people who helped me out.

01 July 2014

Nominate Joomla! for the CMS Critic's People's Choice Award!

For the 3rd time the website CMS Critic organizes the annual Critics' Choice CMS Awards. Help Joomla to get more exposure... by nominating it for a CMS Critic's People's Choice Award!

30 April 2014

Wordpress to Joomla (WP2J) Documentation - Help Wanted!

Have you ever tried another CMS? How did that go? It can be quite difficult to understand the workflow of new software. In the Joomla! forum many questions are asked by other CMS users who have some difficulty in understanding Joomla’s workflow or migrating their other CMS to Joomla.

01 December 2013

10 Arguments That Threaten the Security of Your Website

Nobody wants to have their website get hacked. And yet almost everyone has some reason to ignore security measures. This article talks about "hackers", however "crackers" would be a better name. Hacking is the ingenious use of tools (e.g. software) for purposes that differ from normal use. Cracking is the unauthorized entry of a website to do things that are not allowed by the owner. Because cracking is often referred to as "hacking", I’ll reluctantly use the word “hack” in this article.

01 October 2011

Ten ideas on how to get involved in the community (part 2 of 2)

There are many ways to be involved in the Joomla! community. This article (the second in a series of two articles) presents some ideas about how you can help out within the community. Part one can be found in JCM Magazine of September 2011.

01 September 2011

Ten ideas on how to get involved in the community (part 1 of 2)

There are many ways to be involved in the Joomla! community. This article (part 1) presents some ideas about how you can help in the community. Part 2 will be available in next month's issue of JCM.