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May
The May Issue
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- Written by: Anja de Crom
- Category: May
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What happened at the Joomla Outreach Sprint in Paris? Why should you attend the Joomla World Conference? What are the cool things you can do with Joomla? Why should every webdesign / development agency consider building all their sites in Joomla? How can you create your own Joomla Task Plugin? This, and much, much more, is available for you to read right now in the May issue of the Joomla Community Magazine.
Joomla 6.2 Release Managers - Part 2: Martin Kopp
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- Written by: Philip Walton
- Category: May
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Last month we met Charvi Mehra, the first of two release managers steering Joomla 6.2 towards its October 2026 release. Now we turn to Martin Kopp, a 30-year IT veteran from Switzerland who leads the Bug Squad, mentors GSoC students, and was part of the MCP server discovery sprint that explored AI-powered Joomla administration. Martin co-managed Joomla 4.4 alongside Allon Moritz and returns for 6.2 with experience and, as you will discover, a sideline in DJing.
Read more: Joomla 6.2 Release Managers - Part 2: Martin Kopp
Ambush Marketing
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- Written by: Brian Teeman
- Category: May
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At its core, ambush marketing is simple: one organisation pays to create attention, and another steps in and captures that attention without paying for the privilege.
Lessons learned from being a release manager
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- Written by: Philip Walton
- Category: May
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Joomla 6.0 shipped on the 14th of October 2025, the culmination of about a year's work by Gary Barclay and me as its release managers. We then carried on as caretakers of the 6.0 line for another six months, until Harald Leithner and Stefan Wendhausen shipped Joomla 6.1 on the 14th of April 2026. That was the moment our term came to its natural close.
Can I do that with Joomla?
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- Written by: Viviana Menzel
- Category: May
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This article is about how I (re)discovered a Joomla function, because I was inspired by a website I came across.
When Technical Debt Isn’t Technical Debt
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- Written by: Brian Teeman
- Category: May
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As software projects mature, the challenge is not only managing technical debt, but also preserving the understanding behind the decisions that shaped the code in the first place.
Ecommerce Without Reinventing Joomla
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- Written by: Brian Teeman
- Category: May
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For years, one of the biggest problems with ecommerce in Joomla has not been features. It has been philosophy.
Outreach Sprint. Now the real work begins
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- Written by: Richard Gosler
- Category: May
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I've just returned home to the UK after an extraordinary Outreach Sprint in Paris. I'm still buzzing from the experience and I feel sure my fellow Joomlers felt the same. Nine participants from 5 nations came together to work through some of the bigger challenges in our marketing and communications.
Joomla Summer of Code
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- Written by: Herman Peeren
- Category: May
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This summer four students/contributors will write code to help Joomla move forward. In this article we’ll introduce them and their projects about automated workflow, multi-category support, translator feedback for automatic translation and Ajaxifying the backend. Exciting times ahead!
Custom Plugins, part 2: Task Plugin
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- Written by: Herman Peeren
- Category: May
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In episode 2 of our series about building custom plugins we will look at task plugins. With a task plugin you can schedule tasks that you want your website to do. In this article we’ll show how to create your own plugins to execute all kinds of tasks.