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The JCM Team is proud to present you the August Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.

This month we celebrate the 17th birthday of Joomla.

This month’s edition features:

  • A showcase of 17 websites made with Joomla 4, collected by Anja de Crom.
  • A story about a 17 years old Joomla website still rocking, by Anja.
  • Anja interviewed several Joomlers who explained why they use Joomla.
  • Philip Walton wrote a piece on becoming a blogger for Joomla.
  • Philip reported on the Documentation Sprint held in Germany in July.
  • Anja wrote a piece on detecting and handling volunteers burnout.
  • Mike Brandner wrote an article on the new Joomla Developer Documentation system.
  • Hans van der Meer interviewed Julian White as part of the Meet a Joomler series.
  • Hans interviewed the Joomla Accessibility Team as part of the Meet a Team series.
  • Michael Russell shared some useful statistics about Joomla's adoption.
  • Michael Russell wrote a piece about hacking attempts toward Joomla websites.

This release wouldn't have been possible without the work of the Community Magazine Team, all the authors and all the people who allowed us to interview them.

Thanks to all those who participated.

The Call for Authors for the Community Magazine is always open, we are eager to receive your articles.

If you want to write for the Magazine, regularly or just once, drop us a line at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Contributed to this issue:

Luca Marzo (Co-Editor), Anja de Crom (Co-Editor), Sandra Decoux (Creative Director), Hans van der Meer (Author), Mike Brandner (Author), Philip Walton (Author), Michael Russell (Author).

We want to thank also all the developers, leaders and volunteers who dedicated their time to answer our interviews.

About the author

Luca volunteers for Joomla since 2007. He started in the Italian Community and moved to the global one in 2015. He served in several roles and teams: from JED to Certification Program, from Trademark to Compliance. He is Secretary of Open Source Matters, Inc. since 2017.

Luca serves as Lead Editor for the Joomla Community Magazine since March 2020.

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Some articles published on the Joomla Community Magazine represent the personal opinion or experience of the Author on the specific topic and might not be aligned to the official position of the Joomla Project

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