Joomla! Community Magazine™

Those of you who read joomla.org in English, have known for a few months now that there is a new initiative in place to create a Joomla certification program. This is a project in which the presence of Joomla! community members who speak Spanish is very important. It's a project being worked on by people from more than a dozen countries and several continents. It is born from the fusion of so many different experiences and marks a milestone in the creation of a quality CMS certification program for Joomla.

Registration is now open for CiviCon London 2013. The two day, annual CiviCRM user and implementer conference is Europe's biggest Civi meetup. CiviCRM is an open source CRM aimed at non profits with out of the box integration with Joomla! Whether you're already using or considering using CiviCRM, the conference will be packed with the essential presentations, workshops and people that will help your organization get the most from CiviCRM.

JoomlaDay Houston is getting suited up and ready for a fantastic flight on October 19th!

This is Step 2 in the Rebuilding Our Site series. We had to upgrade from Joomla 1.5 to 2.5. This entry discusses the tools and tactics we considered when upgrading to a newer version of Joomla.

Wer hat an der Uhr gedreht? Wie die Zeit vergeht, wenn man Artikel schreiben soll - und es wird jedes Mal wieder knapp zum Stichtag hin. Wahrscheinlich geht es den Leuten, die ihre Erweiterungen dokumentieren müssen genauso. Meistens sehen wir Benutzer uns ja nur die Demo an, lesen die Kurzbeschreibung und laden dann das Teil herunter und installieren es ... Aber da fehlt ein Schritt dazwischen; sehen wir uns doch kurz an, warum wir die Doku lesen sollten ...

Today, the Joomla CMS is mainly implemented using PHP where JavaScript (JS) and CSS are contributing as minor supportive technologies. Joomla mainly uses JS to improve usability by providing rich interactions and responsiveness, but is it done right? Can we improve it? What are the new technological advancements related to JS? Can we use these in Joomla? This article is an attempt to answer these questions and bring more attention to improving Joomla CMS’s JS usage.

With 164 user groups around the world, there is always something exciting and interesting happening in the Joomla! Community - and I hope to produce a monthly round-up highlighting new Joomla! User Groups, events, and reviews of JUG meetings.

If you have anything you would like me to feature from your Joomla User Group please email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - you must be writing from a Registered Joomla! User Group (i.e. listed at https://community.joomla.org/user-groups.html).

At the request of many of our foreign users, we found a unique way to translate our Joomla developer tool.

Est-ce déjà l'heure ? … Je suppose que c'est la même chose pour les personnes qui écrivent des documentations sur leurs extensions. La plupart d'entre nous, en temps qu'utilisateurs, regardent simplement la démo, la description courte, puis nous téléchargeons et installons...
Mais laissez-moi vous donner quelques raisons pour lesquelles nous devons consulter la documentation.

Being a part of the community I sometimes wonder how I started 6-7 years ago with Joomla!... We didn't have Facebook or Twitter, where we could ask for support or help with extensions. These days I wonder if newbies (sorry for the terminology) know how to search in the JED. Search in the WHAT...?  

Goodbye and hello. When things come to an end, like a season, saying goodbye and welcoming the new is what we do. We say it at events and we have to say it in the project from time to time. It doesn’t always have to be sad to say goodbye and most of the time it is followed by a hello to the new.

Summer is almost over and while it has been relaxing, it is time to pick up the pace and get back to reality! 

Google mühendisleri harıl harıl arama sonuçlarına daha kaliteli sıralamalar elde etmek için çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Bu amaçla da Google Algoritması sıklıkla güncellenerek sıralamaların manupüle edilmesinin önüne geçmeye çalışıyor. Google'ın kaliteli site kavramını oluştururken kullandığı argümanlar arasında değişmeyen ve vazgeçilmez olan bazı kurallar barındırıyor. Bu argümanlar direk olarak website'nizin Google sıralamasına en etki eden faktörleri içermesinden ötürü özellikle dikkat edilmesi gereken hususlardır.

Even with the summer vacation well underway, the Joomla! World Conference Team has been busy behind the scenes planning what will be an awesome event!

This is an update on my GSoC 2013 project - Improvements to the Template Manager for CMS 3. Do checkout the video that I've done and tell me what do you think about the project.

با پیشرفت وب نرم افزارهای توسعه دهنده نیز پیشرفت های شگرفی کرده اند. در زمینه طراحی وب سایت یکی از مهمترین بخش ها مربوط به استایل ها یا همان فایلهای CSS می باشد. ابزارهای بسیار قوی برای برای توسعه استایلها ارائه شدند اما رسم الخط CSS تغییری بنیادین نکرد تا زمانی که این حرکت با Sass و سپس Less آغاز شد. Less زبانی جدید نیست بلکه تنها ابزاری است که امکانات اضافی به استایلهایی که همیشه به آن عادت داشتید اضافه کرده است.این امکانات باعث توسعه سریعتر، ساده تر و خواناتر می شود. در این مقاله به توضیح مقدماتی درباره Less و سپس نحوه استفاده از آن در جوملا می پردازیم.

Diante de um rico cenário, a plataforma Joomla apresenta um crescimento considerável no Brasil, o número de admiradores e usuários está aumentando e o CMS ganha cada vez mais maior visibilidade. Não se tem dúvidas quanto ao crescimento da comunidade, mas qual seria o perfil real desses usuários e da comunidade ativa no Brasil?

Com o intuito de mapear esses dados, Rogério Costa (@matofino), publicitário, atuante no mercado de Internet Marketing desde 2009 e facilitador de cursos da plataforma Joomla, reuniu esforços para atingir esse o objetivo e apresentar um visão geral sobre o perfil da indústria Joomleira no Brasil.

Wir alle hören seit einiger Zeit, dass die Ladezeit einer Seite für die SEO-Bewertung je länger je wichtiger wird - also haben wir kürzlich in einer tiefgehenden Übung untersucht, wie wir die Ladezeiten unserer eigenen Seiten auf ein absolutes Minimum reduzieren können. Wir glauben, dass sich unsere Ergebnisse in GTMetrix durchaus sehen lassen können: 85% für die PageSpeed, 95% für YSlow sowie eine Ladezeit von 1.29 Sekunden. Wir möchten unsere Erfahrungen und unser Vorgehen an dieser Stelle gerne teilen. Einige der verwendeten Mechanismen sind Joomla! spezifisch, die generellen Konzepte sind aber für jedes CMS und jede Webseite gültig.

Wir alle haben doch schon manche 404-Seite gesehen - erinnern wir uns doch mal: Wie haben wir reagiert?

When we approach a development project based on the Joomla CMS, we must treat it in the same way as if it was any other development project. A common mistake is to compare the developments made with Open Source Software for Freelance (in our case Joomla) with other projects which involve full development teams.