Community Magazine

Say hi to your monthly dose of exciting Joomla news! The November issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is packed with good stuff. We have recaps from JoomlaDays, tutorials and lots of news from our wonderful community (did somebody say "elections"?).

Why do some Joomla posts get shared and ranked, while others disappear online? The secret isn’t better SEO or more plugins. It’s better writing.

We’ve all been there, clicking a link full of promise, only to land face-first in the dreaded “404 Not Found.” It’s like opening a door and finding a brick wall. For your visitors, it’s a frustrating dead end. For you, the site owner, it’s an opportunity.

While the 6.0 downloads growing, we look to the new release managers for Joomla 6.1. Last month we featured  Harald Leithner and now we turn our focus on Stefan Wendhausen.

On 11 October 2025, JUG043 Maastricht (The Netherlands) hosted the Pizza JUG & Fun Day, bringing together 11 Joomla enthusiasts for a day of learning, networking, and fun! 

There are a number of ways to perform admin tasks on a Joomla website. Sometimes it’s not possible to do it via the dashboard, which is when I might fall back on SQL and the database for some help.

In this series, we explore methods and tools to test a Joomla extension. In this second episode, we’ll focus on Cypress as a tool for end-to-end tests.

Joomla is now officially recognized as a digital public good, an accolade from the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA). This recognition places Joomla among a number of international open source projects that prioritize openness, transparency, data protection, and social impact.

Gradients are powerful for adding depth, highlights, or visual interest to backgrounds, buttons, and overlays. All with pure CSS. Head over to your user.css and spice up your Joomla website!

JoomlaDay Spain 2025 once again proved that the real strength of this CMS lies in its community. Held on Friday, November 7, in Málaga, the event gathered nearly 100 attendees, including developers, designers, trainers, and open-source enthusiasts.

You may have seen the announcement already: it's voting time once again. Our Board is looking for people to replace three valued members who recently resigned.

Are you a young developer looking for open source projects to contribute to? So was Mohd Shahzan. He was looking for a project where he could make a meaningful contribution to something larger than himself.

What does a value in a table cell mean? Simply look at the header at the top of the column and/or somewhere at the beginning of the row. But what if you are blind?

Back in October, three representatives from Joomla! attended the Cyber Resilience Act workshop organised by the Open Website Alliance. Let’s begin with who. 

Sharing your experience shapes Joomla’s future. You can guide the next generation of Joomla talent. Joomla will grow from it, and you too. 

Do you want to improve Joomla, solve issues and make Joomla safer? Would you like to meet a friendly bunch of super heroes? Are you interested in learning? Then the Joomla Bug Squad is waiting for you! 

On 17 and 18 October 2025, the French-speaking Joomla community gathered in Metz for a new edition of JoomlaDay France. Two days rich in exchanges, conferences and conviviality, organised by the AFUJ at Techno'Pôles CESCOM.