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August
The August Issue
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- Written by: Luca Marzo
- Category: August
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The JCM Team is proud to present you the August Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.
Get inspired! 17 Joomlers share 17 Joomla 4 sites
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: August
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August is Pride Month in the Joomniverse! We’ve asked Joomlers to share the Joomla 4 sites they’re most proud of, and ended up with diversity at its best. In this single JCM article only, we discover a wide variety of sites that use Joomla: personal and blog websites, small business and corporate websites, sites for non-profit and governmental organizations and community websites. Check them out and get inspired!
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Why we love Joomla
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- Written by: Hans van der Meer
- Category: August
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We all have our personal reasons why we once started using Joomla to build web sites. Joomla Community Magazine asked on social media how people started using Joomla and here is a selection of their answers.
My 17+ years old Joomla website
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: August
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What is the average lifespan of a website? I have absolutely no idea. But I figured: with Joomla turning seventeen, surely there should be some Joomla websites out there that are just as old, or even older. So I put a call out, and I found three Joomlers that actually have or maintain an “ancient” website: Peter Martin, Randon Myles and Rachel Walraven. How did their site evolve? And what is the secret to keeping your site alive for so long?
Meet the Joomla Accessibility Team
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- Written by: Hans van der Meer
- Category: August
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In the series Meet the team, this month we have an interview with the Joomla Accessibility Team. Accessibility is one of the highlighted features of Joomla 4, and the team is still working on updating and improving Joomla and its properties in the accessibility area.
Volunteer burnout: how to avoid it
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: August
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Attention all fellow Joomla volunteers: we are Joomla’s most precious jewels. Without us, the volunteers, Joomla wouldn’t be what it is now, and without us you wouldn’t even be reading this article. We matter. We are precious.
Code and the art of bicycle maintenance
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- Written by: Philip Walton
- Category: August
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The idea was Benjamin Trenkle’s during the early covid lockdowns of Spring 2020: a cycle tour of Germany running from south to north. Him with, at the time, a dodgy knee and me having no bike!
How to Write a Blog Post. Start blogging and become a blogger!
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- Written by: Philip Walton
- Category: August
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The topic of how to write a blog is a big one as it encompasses many aspects: the niche, planning, where to write it and how, and once you have your blog growing, how to promote yourself as a blogger.
Read more: How to Write a Blog Post. Start blogging and become a blogger!
Docusaurus to the rescue for developers
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- Written by: Mike Brandner
- Category: August
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In a hotel conference room in Darmstadt, Germany, a small team of Joomla enthusiasts got to grips with Docusaurus, taming the beast to the advantage of the Joomla developer community. This neat package of software is probably the most important change in Joomla documentation for a long time, and with the added bonus of slaying the dreaded MediaWiki captcha once and for all!
Meet a Joomler - Julian White
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- Written by: Hans van der Meer
- Category: August
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If you have visited the online Joomla User Group London in the last year you perhaps might have heard and seen our next interviewee in action, Juian White. Julian is an expert in the accessibility area and how he became such will become clear in this interview.