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With Joomla 4 stable already released, many people are thinking about migrating their sites or starting new sites directly on Joomla 4. But, the question that arises is if all the extensions or templates are already available. To answer that question,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gentil
- Category: September
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I managed to meet Ryan Demmer at the virtual water cooler on a cold morning in early December, and quickly asked him a few questions about his experiences migrating the very popular JCE Editor to Joomla 4. Read on, for valuable advice, from a very...
- Type: Article
- Author: Soren Beck Jensen
- Category: December
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On the way to the stable version of Joomla 4, we also wanted to know how the template developers are working to adapt their products to the next major version of our CMS. An essential part of the Joomla ecosystem, templates allows us to define the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gentil
- Category: July
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Nobody wants to have their website get hacked. And yet almost everyone has some reason to ignore security measures. This article talks about "hackers", however "crackers" would be a better name. Hacking is the ingenious use of tools (e.g. software) for...
- Type: Article
- Author: Peter Martin
- Category: December
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With Joomla 4 on the way, some extension developers are still working on the compatibility of their extensions. Others haven’t even started yet (guys, you really should at least have started by now). And others, like AcyMailing… well, if you use it,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Anja de Crom
- Category: March
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During Joomla!Day West 2010 Pearson Publishing announced the release of Joomla! Press. The mission of Joomla! Press is to enhance the Joomla! experience by providing useful, well-written, and engaging publications for all segments of the Joomla!...
- Type: Article
- Author: JCM Team
- Category: December
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Shipping with Joomla 4 is the new and improved CLI (Command-Line Interface) that sits at the Joomla core. You can now carry out maintenance tasks without even logging into your website. Let's find out how. ‘One Joomla for all’, that’s a bold statement....
- Type: Article
- Author: Brendan Hedges
- Category: June
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Joomla's L10N-heartedhttps://magazine.joomla.org/issues/2021/august-2021/joomla-s-l10n-hearted
Localisation is at Joomla's heart. Currently supporting over 75 world languages for Joomla 3, Joomla! speaks more languages than any other content management system. Joomla 4 is launching today with over 20 language packs available. Many more will...
- Type: Article
- Author: Patrick Jackson
- Category: August
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For the first time since getting involved with Joomla I’m actually excited about the state of Joomla documentation for extension developers! In the past Joomla hasn’t had the best reputation for developer documentation, but for me the Joomla Manual is...
- Type: Article
- Author: Robbie Jackson
- Category: August
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During Joomla!Day West 2010 Pearson Publishing announced the release of Joomla! Press. The mission of Joomla! Press is to enhance the Joomla! experience by providing useful, well-written, and engaging publications for all segments of the Joomla!...
- Type: Article
- Author: JCM Team
- Category: January
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Optimize is headed. Next month is 18 months since Joomla 4 was officially released. In 2021 the magazine had the “Getting extensions ready for Joomla 4” series, talking with Joomla extension developers about their progress in updating their extensions...
- Type: Article
- Author: Patrick Jackson
- Category: January
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As a Joomla user, you may wonder whether the Joomla! extensions and services you use will be compatible with the upcoming major version, Joomla 4. What better way to find out than asking the developers? For our February issue, we had the pleasure to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Anja de Crom
- Category: February
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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...
- Type: Article
- Author: Charvi Mehra
- Category: September
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The Joomla ecosystem is vast. A large community among which, in addition to extension and template developers, there are also service providers. In our interviews about the preparation for the release of Joomla 4, we also needed to know how this part...
- Type: Article
- Author: Andrea Gentil
- Category: December
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There are more CMS platform choices than ever. All of them boast powerful features but it’s not always clear how these features help us in real life. These are five reasons why many people choose Joomla to accomplish website goals and solve real world...
- Type: Article
- Author: Cliff Pfeifer
- Category: May
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August is Pride Month in the Joomniverse! We’ve asked Joomlers to share the Joomla 4 sites they’re most proud of, and ended up with diversity at its best. In this single JCM article only, we discover a wide variety of sites that use Joomla: personal...
- Type: Article
- Author: Anja de Crom
- Category: August
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Last week, Open Source Matters welcomed Paul Orwig as the organization’s new President. With years of experience under his belt including stints as Webmaster for the Joomla! Community Portal, lead editor for the Joomla! Community Magazine, and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Gabe Wahhab
- Category: March
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Earlier this month Joomla 4 Release Candidate was made available, and Release Candidate 2 came out last week. With a fortnightly release schedule for updated RC releases, Joomla 4 is fast approaching the stable release, and you can get involved in the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Patrick Jackson
- Category: June
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GitHub - Installing Githttps://magazine.joomla.org/issues/2020/june-2020/github-installing-git
Contributing to the Joomla project is much easier when you’ve got a local testing environment. This month we’ve prepared a tutorial on how to go about configuring a local testing environment. In last month’s magazine article we gave readers a top level...
- Type: Article
- Author: Patrick Jackson
- Category: June
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Anyone who knows me knows I have a bit of a sweet tooth and I'm a sucker for chocolate, cheesecake and ice cream. It's extremely hard for me to walk past the local gelato shop. As I yield to temptation, I'm affronted with an assortment of flavours and...
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- Author: Andrew Eddie
- Category: November
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For the July 2023 issue I had written a Joomla Magazine article about my first experiences with Joomla 5.0alpha1. I started with an empty installation and tried out some features: Creating articles, installing and using extensions. Now we are in...
- Type: Article
- Author: Rolf Dautrich
- Category: October
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After the release of Joomla 4.0, I met online with Sigrid Gramlinger-Moser and Benjamin Trenkle to discuss the process and people behind the testing and production of Joomla 4.1, the next Joomla minor version. Sigrid Gramlinger-Moser - I first met...
- Type: Article
- Author: Philip Walton
- Category: September
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Once, there was a time when testers had to manually test everything in Joomla, clicking through all the views and features each and every time a change was made. It was exhausting, cumbersome and prone to errors. Along came Selenium! A tool to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Hannes Papenberg
- Category: October
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Help us end the year on a HIGH NOTE! Join the Joomla community behind the rockstar content management system, Joomla! With opportunities in marketing, finance, legal, compliance, and testing, there’s a place for YOU. Each month we will highlight a few...
- Type: Article
- Author: Volunteers Engagement Team
- Category: December
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Debating Migrating?https://magazine.joomla.org/issues/2012/august-2012/debating-migrating
Joomla 3.0 is due out next month, and if you're thinking "oh no, another migration situation!", don't get your feathers all ruffled yet. If you're on Joomla 2.5 you'll be absolutely fine staying where you are, probably until 2014. The most active Skype...
- Type: Article
- Author: Alice Grevet
- Category: August
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New Year, Many Opportunities! We are excited to welcome 2021 and YOU, our new Joomla! Community volunteers. There is an overabundance of opportunities in marketing, finance, legal, compliance, and more. In our Joomla community, there’s a place for YOU....
- Type: Article
- Author: Shirielle D. Williams
- Category: January
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How secure is your Joomla site? Joomla 4’s new features to manage security headers from within your site make protecting your site even easier. There are a range of HTTP Headers you can implement when securing your website. Amongst them, a specific one...
- Type: Article
- Author: Patrick Jackson
- Category: June
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Testing Joomla!https://magazine.joomla.org/issues/2012/july-2012/testing-joomla
The Problem: Testing software has been a huge challenge as long as software has been around. A big part of this is the simple mathematics of if / then statements. To over simplify a bit, every if statement creates two possible execution paths through a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Mark Dexter
- Category: July
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I don't build many websites. Most of my work is in training and advising people to build their own websites. So when I do need to build a new website I get the opportunity to put my ideas into practice. Over the last few months I have been working on...
- Type: Article
- Author: Brian Teeman
- Category: February
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and letting them tell the story instead. For instance for one of our series: Meet a Joomler, Meet the Team or Getting Extensions Ready for Joomla 4. For these series we even have super handy templates with questions, ready to use! How does writing for...
- Type: Article
- Author: Anja de Crom
- Category: February
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Automated tests are not a special tool for software developers in large projects. Especially for extensions, automated tests are a help to quickly identify problems. They help to ensure that extensions work smoothly in newer Joomla versions. The Joomla...
- Type: Article
- Author: Astrid
- Category: June
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Volunteer to Learnhttps://magazine.joomla.org/issues/2017/december-2017/volunteer-to-learn
Help a non-profit while helping yourself! Broaden your CMS horizons and give back to the community at the same time. I’ll share how I learned the Joomla! CMS and how I continue to expand my capabilities. Just getting started with Joomla? Read on. The...
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- Author: Jim Gregory
- Category: December
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Students looking for an opportunity to contribute to open source development and work with the best on a great content management system: this article’s for you. People who know their way around Joomla’s code and want to share their knowledge and help...
- Type: Article
- Author: Anja de Crom
- Category: February
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Ask any project manager: the #1 reason websites launch late isn’t code, it’s content delays. The truth is, a CMS is only half the story. Publishing comes after collecting. Without a good process for gathering content, even the best Joomla site...
- Type: Article
- Author: Jessica Dunbar
- Category: October
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Last month I wrote about logging into Joomla with passkeys, and I ended it by asking you to drop a comment if there was appetite for more. Well, you did, and the comments turned out to be better than the article. You asked exactly the right questions:...
- Type: Article
- Author: Philip Walton
- Category: July
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Joomla 4 is getting closer with the Beta version expected for the end of this month, but, at the same time, Joomla's contributors are working hard to develop another important release: Joomla 3.10. Joomla 3.10 has been announced as the "Bridge...
- Type: Article
- Author: Luca Marzo
- Category: May
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So, if you followed my tips in Part 1 of this series, you’ve hopefully carefully planned out your migration strategy, identified all the links you need to migrate, created your redirects, and at some point, you’re ready to push the button and migrate...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ruth Cheesley
- Category: May
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If you are a professional site builder, but not a professional developer, then you have likely wished you could quickly build custom Joomla! extensions that would allow you to collect exactly the data needed, presented in the precise manner, as...
- Type: Article
- Author: JCM Team
- Category: September
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In the last 10 years, the internet has evolved at a rapid pace. Completely new ecosystems and markets have emerged on this backbone. The distribution of the userbase of the internet is completely different today than what it was a few years ago. In...
- Type: Article
- Author: Parth Lawate
- Category: July
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If you read his author bio here on the JCM website, you'll find Philip Walton is a rower, juggler, cricket fan, warm beer tasting expert, unicyclist and a patented inventor. He's also the Secretary of the Board of Open Source Matters (the organisation...
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- Author: Anja de Crom
- Category: May
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On the 19th and 20th of August, the Joomla! community in South Africa (including guests from seven countries) came together in Cape Town, to share their experience, and to learn from each other. The venue for the event was conveniently located at the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Jacques Rentzke
- Category: September
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In the second of the Template Tools articles, we not only assess three more Joomla! Template Manufacturers: JoomlArt, JoomlaPraise and ProThemer; but we also explore the template folder in your Joomla! install and outline the essentials of Search...
- Type: Article
- Author: Team EaSE
- Category: August
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The Joomla! Setuphttps://magazine.joomla.org/issues/2010/november-2010/tjslouis
The Joomla! Setup is a series of interviews with developers in the Joomla! community, talking about the tools they use to get the job done, inspired by the setup. Can you tell who it is? Louis Landry: Big Easy art Who are you and what do you do? My...
- Type: Article
- Author: JCM Team
- Category: November
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Joomla, in partnership with SiteGround, will provide an improved demo site and a new free hosting option at Joomla.com. Steve Burge interviewed Sarah Watz, the President of Open Source Matters and asked her about the new joomla.com and demo.joomla.org....
- Type: Article
- Author: Steve Burge
- Category: September
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This being my first article for the Joomla! Magazine, I will give a bit of context about myself. I started working with Joomla! in 2007, developing websites as a consultant, and then developing extensions professionally as a livelihood. Gradually I...
- Type: Article
- Author: Anibal Sanchez
- Category: December
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Wilco Alsemgeest has been a Joomla volunteer for years and despite his election as Operations Department Coordinator is recent, he has contributed to the activities of the Board of Directors of OSM for months, actively supporting the DCs and the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Luca Marzo
- Category: November
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The December Issuehttps://magazine.joomla.org/issues/2020/december/december-issue
The JCM Team is proud to publish the December Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine. Featured this month, the brand new WebAuthn passwordless login method of Joomla 4. In this issue, you will find a variety of articles coming from several teams of...
- Type: Article
- Author: Luca Marzo
- Category: December
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Peter has been working with Joomla since its beginning and is a member of the Community Leadership Team (CLT). He co-leads a web design and development agency based in Sydney, Australia and runs probably the most popular Joomla weekly podcast/videocast...
- Type: Article
- Author: JCM Team
- Category: January
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I will let you into a little secret, one that others in production will never tell. When is Joomla! 4 ready? Well, that’s simple. When it’s been fully tested and the bugs fixed. It’s up to you when J4 is ready That’s a cop-out you might say, but it’s...
- Type: Article
- Author: Philip Walton
- Category: May
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There are many volunteers throughout the Joomla! community and from time to time we like to highlight substantial contributors that have given a lot of themselves to make for a better project. One such person is Elin Waring. You have spent the last...
- Type: Article
- Author: JCM Team
- Category: August