The Joomla Academy: Advanced Migration Graduation

Open source is a powerful reminder that collaboration often creates results far greater than the sum of their parts.

Volunteering with the Joomla project offers countless benefits: professional development, friendships with peers who understand your work, and business networking opportunities. For me, gratitude has always been central. I’m thankful for the contributions of so many—past, present, and future.

Celebrating Two Years of Joomla Guided Tours

June 2025 marks a significant milestone that I'm incredibly proud to share with the Joomla community—the second anniversary of our Guided Tours team, a dedicated group that has transformed how users experience and learn Joomla.

Introducing the Joomla Health Checker: Your Website's Personal Physician

Empowering administrators with insights beyond just updates

We've all been there. You log into your Joomla administrator panel, check for updates, see that green checkmark, and think "Great! My site is healthy." But is it really?

Guided Tours: Getting Better and Better - Here’s What's New!

You may have seen them in the backend of your Joomla 4 or 5 website: Guided Tours, the ultimate way to get familiarized with your Joomla website. And while Joomla 5 keeps getting better (thanks to our awesome developers), so does Joomla's Little Helper, aka the Guided Tours!

The End of the Journey for 4.3 Co-Release Managers

Our journey is coming to an end… 

Joomla 4.3 Co-Release Managers Olivier and SD, share their experience as release managers now that their branch has been surpassed by the release of 4.4 and 5.0.

Do you have a few hours to help enhance Joomla’s latest feature, Guided Tours?

Guided Tours in Joomla has been a prominent project within the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program. Guided Tours was the main feature of the Joomla 4.3 release showcasing the power of teamwork and determination. This article highlights the ongoing efforts to refine and expand Guided Tours and the need for users who can help enhance the Guided Tours feature.

How you can help Joomla 4.3 forward

Here in the United States, the month of November brings with it thoughts of thankfulness and a spirit of giving. With that in mind, Olivier Buisard and I wanted to share a word of thanks.

Tips for Posting Your Event on the Joomla! Community Portal

The Joomla! Community Portal event listing is a great place to share your Joomla and Joomla-Related event. 

User Group meetings, JoomlaDay event, JoomlaCamp event, or a Joomla Roundtable are just a few of the types of events perfect for the community portal. Below are 6 tips to help get your event listed.

Community Openings

I’m going to get straight to the point - WE NEED YOU!

Community Openings May 2021

I may be reaching a little bit here with this reference to a song released before many of us were born, but I felt it was appropriate and I’m sure you’ve heard. It just so happens that the English singer/songwriter, John Robert "Joe" Cocker OBE, who wrote the song was born on May 20th.

Community Openings April 2021

In America, April is National Volunteer Month where we recognize and celebrate those who give of their time and talent to help others. As a volunteer-driven organization Joomla! would not exist without them/us/we, the volunteers that work hard to manage, build, create, enhance, document, translate, market, and so on. Read more …

Community Openings: March 2021

Joomla! is not only a software platform, it is also a Worldwide Community of Volunteers. 

Community Openings - Joomla! 4 Edition

Psst!  Have you heard? Joomla! 4 is coming. Yeah, I know that you’ve heard that before, but it’s TRUE!  Earlier this month Joomla 4 Beta 7 was released and you know what that means?! It means that a Joomla 4 Release Candidate is dropping soon, and where there’s a release candidate, a new Joomla release is soon to follow. To get over the finish line, we need a hand, make that several hands to get things done. There’s a saying, something about many hands, making light work, or something like that. We could use MANY hands to write, test, bugfix, market, document, translate and more. 

Community Openings - January 2021

New Year, Many Opportunities!  We are excited to welcome 2021 and YOU, our new Joomla! Community volunteers.

There is an overabundance of opportunities in marketing, finance, legal, compliance, and more. In our Joomla community, there’s a place for YOU. Read more, scroll down, continue on, you get the idea, your next opportunity to contribute awaits.

Entice, Engage, and Educate in 2021

This year, coming out of the Forum for the Future event was the re-igniting of the Joomla Educational Outreach (JEO) Working Group. This group of motivated individuals came together with a common goal of wanting to spread awareness and training of Joomla! through the education community. It took a few months to get our feet under us and now we are poised to move in 2021.  

Community Openings December 2020

Help us end the year on a HIGH NOTE! Join the Joomla community behind the rockstar content management system, Joomla!

JUGCN 2020 Year-end Review

The end of 2020 is here. Looking back at JUGCN, we’ve covered some great topics, hosted fantastic guest speakers, and are looking forward to 2021.

Community Openings: November 2020

Joomla! is all about community. This community is strong because of individuals who give of their time and talent, people like YOU! While coders are needed, other skills are too. There are many opportunities in marketing, finance, legal, compliance, testing, and more.

JoomlaDay Chicago 2020 Recap

JoomlaDay Chicago 2020 Virtual Conference was held Friday, Oct 16th, and Saturday, Oct 17th.  It turned out to be a perfect day for it as it was a cool and cloudy day, perfect for hanging out with friends online. JoomlaDay Chicago 2020 was sponsored by YellowWebMonkey, The Turn Group, JoomlaStars, and presenting sponsor Danico Enterprises.

The First JoomlaCamp Chicago

The first JoomlaCamp Chicago was held on September 22, at DePaul University's Loop Campus. With a wide range of questions and answers covered, participants left feeling excited to put their expanded Joomla! knowledge to use on their own sites.  

JoomlaDay Chicago 2017 Recap

JoomlaDay Chicago 2017 was held on Saturday, September 23rd on an unseasonably warm 90+ degree Chicago day. The event included three tracks one for beginners, one for seasoned users and one for those seeking certification.