Community Magazine

In this episode we will use Joomla Component Builder to build our example event schedule component.

You may have seen them in form fields: labels that seem to float above the field as you're typing. Can you make those in your Joomla website as well? Yes you can! Brian Teeman explains how. 

When you ask John Dagelmore, he basically tells you about his extensions. 
Narcissistic? Selfish? No ! 

He's just proud of them, because they're his babies ! 

But he's also very proud of Joomla, which he considers to be the best CMS in existence,and as a good family man, he kindly explained to us the life of his extensions, which he grew up in a caring environment.

Having been around the JoomlaSphere in some capacity or another for years, what keeps me around and coming back are the wonderful and super helpful people that I have encountered over the years... some stay, some go, some comeback and some don't but they are collectively the pillars of the Joomla! project no matter in what way they participate, or contribute...

When developing websites or extensions for Joomla, sometimes tasks arise that have already been solved by someone. In the development world, such solutions are designed as libraries - sets of files and classes that make it possible to simply plug them into your script and use code written and well-tested by other developers. These can be php libraries for image processing, working with PDF, connecting to third-party services via the REST API, and much, much more.

JDayUSA 2025, the premier annual Joomla! Conference in the USA returns this April 2025, to Washington, DC.  JDayUSA brings together visionaries, Joomla enthusiasts, and leaders for a transformative exploration of the latest trends in Joomla. And no matter where you live, you can be part of it!

Coming up: Joomla's legendary Pizza, Bugs & Fun event. This is your chance to contribute directly to Joomla, have fun and enjoy a free pizza all at the same time! PBF is THE Global Joomla Event where coders and non-technies unite to make Joomla 5.3 our best Joomla ever. Block February 22, 2025 in your schedule, host a location if you can, bring your Joomla friends together and smash those bugs! 

Dear people of the Joomniverse, this is your chance to help shape Joomla’s future. You guessed it: it’s election time! Read more if you want to know which board positions are up for election and what it takes to be part of Joomla’s leadership!