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The August Issue
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: August
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Happy Birthday Joomla 🎉
This month, we're celebrating Joomla's 21st birthday. Since we're the Joomla Community Magazine, we do this with content - in this issue, you'll find a number of entertaining 21-themed articles.
Our President, Elisa Foltyn, took a different approach: she ran 21 kms, while telling us Joomla's history! And it's all on video, we've included the video below.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Stacked So High I Can Almost Touch the Moon)
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- Written by: Brian Teeman
- Category: August
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Twenty-one years ago, Joomla was born.
At the time, none of us knew what the future would hold. We had an idea, a belief that there was a better way to build software for the web, and a determination to create something that would give people the freedom to publish, share and build online.
What we could not have imagined was the journey that would follow.
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CSS Shorts: light-dark()
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- Written by: Viviana Menzel
- Category: August
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Do you want to set up a dark mode with CSS? Here's how! The light-dark() CSS function is baseline (works across the latest browser versions) since May 2024 and allows you to easily create a dark mode for your website.
21 Improvements That Can Make a Difference to a Website
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- Written by: Louise Hawkins
- Category: August
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Twenty-one years is a long time on the web.
During that time, the way we design, build, find, use and measure websites has changed enormously. Devices have changed. Search has changed. Accessibility expectations have changed. Analytics has changed. And now artificial intelligence is changing how people discover and interact with information yet again.
Read more: 21 Improvements That Can Make a Difference to a Website
21 Things that were there before Joomla - and that we still love and enjoy
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: August
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“Wow,” someone said when I told them about Joomla's 21st birthday, “21 years, that’s pretty old. And it’s still alive and kicking, you say?” You bet it is, just like these 21 things we use every day that are (sometimes much) older than Joomla! Age ain't nothing but a number.
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Extension developers, it's time to mark your security updates
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- Written by: Allon Moritz
- Category: August
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Software security isn't just about fixing vulnerabilities anymore, it's about communicating them effectively. With the upcoming Joomla 6.2 release, extension developers can now mark an extension update as a security release, allowing Joomla to clearly highlight security fixes from regular feature or maintenance updates. It may seem like a small addition, but it's an important step towards a more secure Joomla ecosystem.
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How to automatically run a task in Joomla?
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- Written by: Herman Peeren
- Category: August
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In Joomla we can automatically run tasks. Several standard tasks are shipped with Joomla, of which some are scheduled by default. But how do you run tasks? What settings do you need? We’ll show you step-by-step how to do that.
The robots have changed, and your robots.txt hasn't
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- Written by: Philip Walton
- Category: August
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There is a file on your Joomla site you have almost certainly never opened. Joomla put it there the day you installed, it has sat quietly ever since, and it is currently telling every crawler on the internet what it may and may not look at. It was written for a web where the only things crawling your site were search engines wanting to send you visitors.
Read more: The robots have changed, and your robots.txt hasn't
21 Things Only Joomla Users Understand
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- Written by: Louise Hawkins
- Category: August
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Twenty-one years is a long time in technology. Long enough for features to arrive and disappear, terminology to become archaeology, updates to become migrations and perfectly sensible developers to develop strong opinions about cache.
Joomla at 21: Finding the Golden Ratio in Our History
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- Written by: Richard Gosler
- Category: August
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There is something rather satisfying about Joomla turning 21.
Twenty-one is, after all, a Fibonacci number. For those whose school maths has become a little hazy, the Fibonacci sequence begins: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…
Read more: Joomla at 21: Finding the Golden Ratio in Our History