Joomla! Community Magazine™

Since 2006, when I for the first time "saw the light" with Joomla! I have fortunately not been exposed to more than a few hacker attacks of my websites. In both cases there was only a so-called de-faceing, but still it was frustrating to be hacked and time consuming, in the first case, to get the website up and running again. Luckily, I had learned when the next attack was inevitable. I had a backup.

Joomla is an open source content management system which based on PHP and MySQL. You can work with it both online or offline. However, managing Joomla offline requires you to install a compatible web server and the Joomla package as well. Below are instructions to install Joomla on XAMPP - a good web server which can work well on local machine. This is an extract from the free ebook "Joomla 3.0 Made Easy".

It all started on a hot, summer day in August, an innocent lunch, a good idea, and off we went, diving headfirst into planning the first ever JoomlaDay Boston! You may see this as a bit of shameless plugging, and you are right, please join us! But with it, I hope to pass along a few good tips on event organizing.

Here is an easy and fun way for you to share your feelings about Joomla! with the rest of the community: Simply write a haiku about Joomla! below in the comments area of this month's page. Be sure to check back here to read the haikus submitted by other members of the community. We will have a page for new haikus in every upcoming JCM issue.

Volunteering to help with Joomla! is fun! Check here for listings of current volunteer openings throughout the Joomla! project that have been posted in the "Help wanted in the community” forum.

In the last period, there was a huge API growth especially in mobile applications industry, APIs being used both in the applications’ development process and as business tools. Unfortunately, building and hosting it usually turns into a lot of work that gets in the way of getting things done. Thus, many brilliant ideas are stuck with server configurations, database administration or security issues. But, what if we could get the API ready in just a few clicks? And, believe it or not it's totally developed with Joomla!

Holding a Pub Night "north" at the top of the Yonge subway line, in 2009 I ventured south to my first Joomla User Group Toronto (JUGT) event.

El projecte Joomla es complau d'anunciar la immediata disponibilitat de Joomla 3.0.3. Aquesta és una versió de seguretat. L'equip directiu s'ha fixat l'objectiu de continuar proporcionant actualitzacions regulars i freqüents a la comunitat Joomla. Llegiu més sobre Joomla! i el seu desenvolupament en el lloc del desenvolupador (en anglès).

One of the many new features found in Joomla! 3 is the implementation of LESS. Many have heard of LESS, what it is, and how it can be used, but for those interested in learning (or refreshing) below is a walk-through of a few of the benefits and how to do LESS in Joomla!.

Tal com estava previst a l'abril de 2012, la JED iniciarà la transició d'abandonar el suport per les extensions de Joomla 1.5.

This week we were pleased to sit down and chat with Andrew Eddie from The Art of Joomla where he's teaching people to learn and master the art of developing with Joomla. He teaches us about some of the challenges he's faced over the years and how he's turned them into some of his biggest successes!

This is the third article in a four part series designed to help you create great video training and tutorials for your clients. In part one, I talked about five reasons for training clients with video. In part two, I discussed the tools you'll need, and the preparation you should make to create video tutorials for your clients as part of your site-building workflow. 

Choosing the URL to use for your business can be a difficult decision - so many factors to consider!  Will customers remember it?  Does it say what you do?  How well will it optimise in search engines?

We've all seen the social sharing icons which appear at the bottom of many websites encouraging people to like and share your content, but what if you could have the message that your visitors are pushing out to their social streams become more interactive? Google+ has just introduced 'interactive Posts' which help your shared posts stand out from the crowd - this could be a real game changer for many websites and an interesting way to develop social interaction with your visitors' networks.

Are you a business owner or a marketer who has a Joomla website? Are you searching for some information on how to best optimize your Joomla website for the latest SEO techniques and methodologies? Then you will greatly benefit from reading this article.

While 2013 is already 2 months old it’s time to look back, review the progress made on the goals of last year and think about new goals or updates. But first of all let’s get our Joomla versions updated!

What is the Joomla Framework, why do we need it when we already have the Joomla Platform?

In the previous articles we covered setting the stage and beginning the component structure. In this tutorial we will be focusing on the details, writing those functions and files that are core to this extension and actually making the extension start to work and hopefully start unifying the entire component and accomplishing the overall goal.

What if the component you want to use does not implement the ACL features you need to have? One approach is to add access control through Joomla's output overrides.

Admin Tools DeveloperAkeeba DevelopersWebsiteWebsiteCompatibility Submitted by Leadership Team member: Nick SavovNick SavovWhy do you love this Extension? I love this extension, because it's easy to use, a huge time saver, and provides security for sites that I maintain. What does this...