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December
The December Issue
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- Written by: Luca Marzo
- Category: December
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The JCM Team is proud to publish the December Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.
Passwordless authentication for secure, fast and easy logins in Joomla! 4
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- Written by: Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
- Category: December
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Joomla! 4 introduces a plethora of new and exciting features. While most of them are very visible, giving you new ways to build and use your sites more easily, there's an abundance of features designed to enhance the security of your site. Today we'll be talking about WebAuthn, a feature that has the unique distinction of belonging in both categories: it makes your site login more secure and easier at the same time.
Read more: Passwordless authentication for secure, fast and easy logins in Joomla! 4
Meet a Joomler: Viviana Menzel
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: December
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Viviana Menzel is co-organizer of JoomlaDay Germany, a member of Joomla’s CMS Maintenance team and, together with Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, team leader of the Frontend Template Working Group. Would you like to know how this Argentinian biology graduate ended up in Germany building websites for a living? Read her story below!
Joomla and your consents
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- Written by: Roland Dalmulder
- Category: December
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You may have recently received an email from Joomla asking you to renew your consent to the processing of your personal data. In certain times during the year, or when new privacy laws go into effect, consent renewal emails seem to flood all of our inboxes. Why do you need to renew your consent? Why is consent so important to privacy?
Getting services ready for Joomla 4 - Victor Drover (Watchful)
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- Written by: Andrea Gentil
- Category: December
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The Joomla ecosystem is vast. A large community among which, in addition to extension and template developers, there are also service providers. In our interviews about the preparation for the release of Joomla 4, we also needed to know how this part of the community is working. That's why, on this occasion, we approached Victor Drover from Watchful.net, a website management tool.
Read more: Getting services ready for Joomla 4 - Victor Drover (Watchful)
A new proposal process
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- Written by: Niels Braczek
- Category: December
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Have you ever wondered how new features make it into the Joomla core? While in the past, Joomla followed the paradigm "write the code, then we look at it and make a decision," Joomla today has a professional process that supports the "think first, then implement" strategy.
Getting extensions ready for Joomla 4: Søren Beck Jensen (Component Creator)
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- Written by: Andrea Gentil
- Category: December
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Joomla 4 Beta 5 has been released, meaning that the Release Candidate version is one step closer. The Joomla Community Magazine continues to approach developers, to see first-hand how they are preparing for the arrival of the next major version of Joomla.
On this occasion, it is the turn of Søren Beck Jensen, the man behind Component Creator, a component to create components.
Read more: Getting extensions ready for Joomla 4: Søren Beck Jensen (Component Creator)
Joomla becomes CVE Numbering Authority: what does this mean?
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: December
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You may have read about it in the official announcement: Joomla has been authorized as a CVE Numbering Authority. But what is this, you might wonder, why is it such a big deal, and what does it mean to the average Joomla user?
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19 common mistakes about Joomla extensions part 2
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: December
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself,” is a famous Eleanor Roosevelt quote. In this article series we list the most common mistakes users make when choosing and using extensions for their Joomla website(s), and how you can avoid them.
Read more: 19 common mistakes about Joomla extensions part 2
The Making of “The Best Website”
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- Written by: Peter Martin
- Category: December
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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.