Turning the Joomla website into an ActivityPub server and being an independent participant in the Fediverse - A start

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This article has two parts. In the first part, I summarise what the terms Fediverse and ActivityPub mean. In the second part, I briefly describe what I have implemented to make a Joomla website support the ActivityPub protocol and allow a Mastodon user to follow a Joomla website user.

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Community Events in Joomla Coming back to you!

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After several long years of virtual-only or very few Joomla! Events, our community has come back strong! Our Joomla User Groups are getting back together both virtually and in person. Event committees have been collaborating to start again with Joomla Day events, Joomla Camp events, and other creative events. Some events are in person, others are virtual. We are in a new world where we can give each other hugs and collaborate from across the ponds! Let’s highlight three great events: one ongoing, two coming up.

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The January Issue

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

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To us, the people of Joomla

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We’ve all read it, probably more than once: Joomla’s beating heart is the community

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What did 2022 bring for Joomla?

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What did 2022 bring for Joomla? 

More awards than ever before followed by growth after many years of decline. 

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Holopin and Joomla, a partnership worth celebrating with a badge!

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Gamification of testing is something often discussed in the threads of Joomla discussions.

Wouldn't it be a great idea if we could reward those volunteers who are doing the work hard and putting in the time with something fun and creative? Well, now we can!

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Meet an extension developer: Samuel Marshall JCH Optimize

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Patrick Jackson talks with Samuel Marshall, creator of JCH Optimize, a Joomla optimization component that can significantly improve your Joomla website’s performance, on how he got started with Joomla, and where JCH Optimize is headed.

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Joomla, may we have your votes please?

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There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.
(Obama)

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Meet the Team: Automated Testing Team

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When you see the name Automated Testing Team (ATT) you might have an idea what the scope of this team is. But what is “automated testing” exactly? And what solutions are they using? In this interview we come and meet the team team members and how this team works.

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How to write for the Joomla Community Magazine

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Maybe you knew this already: you too can become an author for the Joomla Community Magazine. If you want to share your knowledge about Joomla, extensions, templates, technical topics related to web design, show us a case study of a project you’ve been working on, or let us know what is going on in your part of the community, you’re welcome to write for us. But how to start? And where do you go from there?

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Me, Joomla & The Universe

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The temperature was mild and sunny that February morning, despite being in Scotland. The dust from the fall of the Berlin Wall was still in the air and there I was, talking to Richard, the husband of the focalizer of a workshop that was taking place in Findhorn, the community I was visiting.

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Explore the Core - Using the Latest Articles Module on your website

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In earlier issues of the Joomla Community Magazine, we showed you how to create categories and articles.

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Meet a Joomler - Niels Braczek

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I guess most contributors to the code of Joomla have heard of Niels. Personally, I (only) met him at a Joomla Conference in Spain and he striked me as a passionate man. I loved reading his answers on my questions, I hope you do too.

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Tribute to Marco Dings

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In the past days the Joomla Community has been hitted by very sad news, Marco Dings, a beloved Joomla contributor passed away. 

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Visualising Data with Google Looker Studio, formerly Data Studio

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Looker studio is a free data visualisation tool provided by Google. Tell your data story using pie charts, bar charts, paginated tables and more...

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The December Issue

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

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Joomla rising - how hard work and a good attitude can make all the difference

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Joomla had not shown growth since 2016 - 2017 and that was just 0.1%. Over 60 months of the line going down or remaining level. So in early June when the w3tech graph showed a small uptick which wiggled back and forth between a tiny up and baseline flat there was some hope for change.

At the time of going to print Joomla has grown 0.2% in both usage of CMS and usage of the entire web in 6 weeks. Let us explore why

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Upgrading your site to PHP 8

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As many of you have heard, PHP 7 became End of Life last month, on November 28th. You probably also heard that this is terrible news for the security of your site and / or that upgrading your site to PHP 8 is a dreary task. While neither affirmation is the absolute truth, there are always a few kernels of truth in every plausible lie. Let's see what the end of PHP 7's service life means for your site and what you can do about it in pragmatic, practical terms.

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© Copyright 2022 Nikolaos K. Dionysopoulos. All legal rights reserved. Distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 license.

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Transition your Joomla 4 website from Search to Smart Search

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The 'Search' and 'Smart Search' components have coexisted since Joomla 2.5.

Search (or com_search) would provide a straightforward search feature while Smart Search would offer indexing and more advanced search capabilities with filtering.

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Joomla Community Magazine highlights of 2022

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As 2022 comes to an end, it’s time to reflect on what happened in the Joomla Community Magazine in the past twelve months. Team members Luca Marzo, Anja de Crom, Hans van der Meer and Phil Walton look back on the past year and forward to the next.

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