Community Magazine

In October 2025, members of the Greek Joomla community, led by Bill Kotsias, were invited to speak at the University of the Aegean in Samos. Their goal: to introduce Joomla — one of the leading open-source CMS platforms — to students and educators in Greece.

With Joomla 6 in the downloads portal: people updating their sites and building new sites on a fresh Joomla 6 install, attention now turns to Joomla 6.1. Now we turn to interview its release managers Harald Leithner and Stefan Wendhausen. 

Are you a young developer looking for open source projects to contribute to? Joomla ticks all the boxes, says Charvi Mehra, who had the opportunity to work on an AI integration framework for Joomla: "You get to work on real projects, grow your skills, and connect with amazing people from around the world."

Under this somewhat provocative and enigmatic title, I would like to discuss a syndrome that is common in the community, and I am pretty sure you will recognize it.

As you probably know, Joomla is powered by people only. That means no large company setting direction or course, no investors having a say in what we're doing: it's just us, together, working voluntarily to improve Joomla so it remains the best CMS in the world.

Organising a Joomla event? Launching a new Joomla extension? Starting a business partnership with another Joomla company? If you have Joomla news that is timely, relevant and valuable, and you want to share it with the world, a press release might help shape the narrative. In this article you'll find 7 steps to make sure your message is clear, complete and credible.

A Day of Coding event is a hands-on way to bring developers and learners together to solve a real-world challenge. Participants get the opportunity to follow along with experienced developers, learn practical coding techniques, and leave with a working solution.

Joomla Pizza Bugs and Fun is an event like no other - for people who are close to its heart or who are just regular users of the platform. It’s where code meets community, and where even the smallest bug fix can spark a wave of collaboration.

When we're busy with deadlines and to-do lists, it can be difficult to keep up with new technologies. CSS has evolved dramatically in recent years, and it's not always easy to keep up with the latest developments.

In this article (perhaps it will become a series), I want to focus on a change that makes code easier and more flexible to write, especially for multilingual websites.

In the last article today's topic was already mentioned: the use of the keyboard on websites. It was found that none of the testing tools detected whether a bypass element was present. In this article, we’ll take a look at what the testing tools have to say about focus.

Do you write how to's, tutorials or instructions for content managers or clients? Then this article is for you! Find out how Joomla can help you with that, and vice versa: how you can help Joomla.

It’s the big elephant in the room: Joomla lacks a reliable long term roadmap for it’s CMS product. Additions to new versions have been primarily driven by personal preferences of individual contributors and not by a long term strategy - and finally, it’s time for that issue to be solved. 

In order to do so, a group of people gathered in a rural village in southern Germany in early September to answer the big question: where should Joomla head to?

Long blocks of text can be difficult to read, especially on a screen. Readers are more likely to stay engaged when text is broken up with images, spacing, or other design elements.

Long blocks of text can be difficult to read, especially on a screen. Readers are more likely to stay engaged when text is broken up with images, spacing, or other design elements.

Workflows in Joomla have always been powerful, but never this visible. The new Workflow Graph Editor pulls that power onto the canvas, turning abstract configurations into something you can see, drag, connect, explain and edit  in seconds.

Open source is a powerful reminder that collaboration often creates results far greater than the sum of their parts.

Volunteering with the Joomla project offers countless benefits: professional development, friendships with peers who understand your work, and business networking opportunities. For me, gratitude has always been central. I’m thankful for the contributions of so many—past, present, and future.

Adding AI to your Joomla! extensions no longer need to be complicated or tied to one provider. With the new Joomla! AI Framework, you can write your code once and let your users choose between OpenAI, Anthropic, or even local models with Ollama — all through the same interface. In this article, I’ll show you what the framework does, why it matters, and how you can start using it today.

Joomla’s Weblinks component is a handy tool for organizing links, but it needed a refresh to keep up with Joomla 5 standards and the upcoming Joomla 6. Through GSoC 2025, I introduced features like frontend dashboard for weblinks and a pre-configured cloud environment for testing and more. These updates let users handle their weblinks more efficiently and give developers a model for building their own extension. This article explores the changes and how they can save time for both site admins and developers.

Joomla comes with a handy collection of commands that can be run from a terminal window which can possibly save time for busy site admins.

Moving your website from one CMS to another is often seen as a daunting task. For many site owners who start with WordPress but want the flexibility, power, and community of Joomla, the thought of re-creating every article, menu, and media file by hand can feel overwhelming.

Twenty years of development, twenty years of commitment, twenty years of working together: if we'd ask every Joomler to create a timeline of what they consider the highlights and milestones of Joomla's first two decades, no two timelines would be the same. Nevertheless we wanted to give it a try. If you think anything is missing, please use the comments section to tell us what it is and why it should be there! And we'd really love it if you share your personal Joomla highlights as well, you can also do that in the comments. But first, have a look at our impressive timeline!