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).

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

What is Joomla Framework and how to 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.

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Goodbye Joomla 5.2!

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.

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My Joomla 5.2 experiment: a 35 Languages Multilingual Landing Page

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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.

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How my new Joomla 4 website got hacked

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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.

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The Making of “The Best Website”

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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.

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