Community Magazine

A few years ago I created a free website using launch.joomla.org. I registered the website specialist.joomla.com and created a Joomla 3 website with an English and Dutch page with a small description about my (business and volunteer) work.

As we continue exploring the different aspects of optimization, the quantity of information is vast.
In this edition, we will cover Content, SEO, and User Experience... This is of course just a highlight and many more things could be said about each topic... 

There are jobs, behind-the-scenes jobs, that not many people want to do, because they require hard work, rigor and seriousness, but also the ability to work as part of a team without necessarily being in the spotlight and reaping the glory. Nadja Lamisch possesses these qualities and has successfully carried out the mission entrusted to her: treasurer of Joomla.
At the end of her term, she stood for re-election and was re-confirmed in her post. This well-deserved re-election was well worth an interview to get to know the woman who holds the purse strings.

Power to imagination! In Joomla 5.2, the brand new Articles Module was introduced, a super flexible module that enables you to showcase your articles. In this article, Viviana shows us how you can use this module to create an Advent Calendar. Get inspired and unleash your own creativity!

In the previous article, we got acquainted with the capabilities of the Joomla smart search component, talked about the parameters and configuration of scheduled indexing using CRON. Let's start creating the code for our own plugin.

Our journey until now In this series we want to show some tools that can help to build components for Joomla. The first four episodes were mainly to introduce the example, show some implementations of it without building a component and...

Haven’t migrated your Joomla 3 website(s) because it uses J2Store and you’re not sure what will happen? Dreading the moment that J2Store pulls the plug and you would need to have that uncomfortable client discussion about moving to a new ecommerce solution? Fear no longer: J2Store will be continued! Olivier Buisard and Adam Melcher are working on it as we speak, and new versions have been released already. Read all about The Fork, The Developers and The Plans!

A lot of people wrote about how to migrate a site on Joomla - first to version 3, then it was up to 4, and now to 5. And in fact, if you follow the instructions, usually everything goes well and smoothly. But this is if you do not have a bunch of different components, modules, plugins installed, that can cause problems after the migration.

The passion for computer science was always one of my favorite topics to discuss. With this in mind I would like to present Ane Miren Alvarez, a talented Web Developer who has implemented the Joomla API within the automation tool Make, an “integration that allows for automated workflows and processes within Joomla” as she describes it. 

When it comes to videos, podcasts and Joomla streamers, one name always stands out: Tim Davis!

Is it any coincidence that this real-life pastor is so enthusiastic about sharing both his knowledge and his passion for Joomla!
We asked him about his relationship with the community and how he came to produce such interesting and valuable videos.

They are everywhere, they are coming as fonts, sprites and SVGs. They have different forms and outlines. They can be super helpful - if you respect some rules for usability and accessibility.

The issue of accessibility is highly topical in the business world, as well as in local authorities. In the web domain, this concerns the hearing and visually impaired, as well as certain dyslexic disorders, and even cognitive disorders.

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

On October 15, 2024, the Joomla community took another big step forward with the official release of version 5.2. Though anticipated, this version continues to surprise with the wealth of improvements and the simplicity it brings to both users and developers.

More than just a technical update, Joomla 5.2 invites users to rediscover a tool that evolves continuously to meet the needs of website creators.

Over the years, Joomla has participated a number of times in Google Summer of Code, an initiative that empowers students to learn a lot about software development by contributing to open source projects. GSoC has shown us more than once how valuable students can be for Joomla. So what would be more logical than creating our own breeding ground? JCM interviews Philip Walton, the man with the plan. Read all about the brand new Joomla Academy!

Nine months ago, I created my first Extension for Joomla!. Now, I’ve made seven simple Extensions with the help of ChatGPT. In this article, I’ll share what I learned through this process in the form of tips so that you can easily create your own Extension.

Let's face it, building a website in 2024 on one hand is easier and easier than it has ever been ... especially with solutions like Joomla 5... but on the other, once you have built your beautiful website, it is harder than ever to get noticed, to get quality traffic and to convert visitors into customers... 

In this episode we will expand our example component, mainly by using features that are built-in into Joomla. And we show some tools that can help us setting up a custom component.

You probably already know Joomla has built-in search functionality, which meets modern requirements - the smart search component. But what if your users need a little more? What if you want third party extensions to be searchable as well? In this series of articles, we will look at how to create a smart search plugin for a third-party Joomla component

When you're designing or building a website, you'll probably make sure it appeals to your target group, or your client's target group. You'll carefully choose the images and the colours and for the content you'll use wording and vocabulary that fits the target group. But have you thought of the usability and accessibility? Not all visitors can navigate the same way. If you can't use a mouse, how do you know where you are?