Unless you’ve been on a media lockdown in the past few weeks, no doubt you’ll be aware that a major new release of Joomla! (6.0 to be specific as well as an updated 5.4) has been released. And as with all new software products, we’re promised a faster, sleeker and all-round sexier experience.
In your opinion, what is a WOW-factor? Is it fancy features, shiny stuff or glittering gadgets? When it comes to content management systems, the WOW- factors may lie in completely different things.
Buttons.
Yes, buttons. Have you ever noticed how often you click one? It probably seems effortless — after all, you can see the button, use a mouse, or tap a screen. But have you ever stopped to think about what it takes to make a simple button usable for everyone?
The Blind Spots of Accessibility testing Tools – Buttons Read Post »
A new edition, another location. For 2025 the team decided to organise the JoomlaDays Netherlands in Utrecht at Crowne Plaza hotel, closeby the Central Station.
Setting up a local web development environment on Windows has long been a chore. Traditional AMP stacks like XAMPP or WAMP can feel clunky, slow, or outdated. Enter Laragon — a sleek, modern, and lightning-fast local server environment designed to make web development effortless.
Laragon: The Effortless, High-Performance AMP Server for Windows Read Post »
In the September Issue of the Magazine I started a new CSS Series with short explanations of modern CSS properties and functions. Today’s article is about Subgrids.
Joomla 6 is out and it brings a great example of a Child Template with new options for colors and font sizes.
With the release of Joomla 5.4 and Joomla 6.0 on 14 October 2025, the Joomla project introduces a significant innovation: automatic updates for the core system. This feature makes it possible to keep Joomla installations up to date reliably and without manual intervention – an important step towards increasing the security and maintainability of Joomla websites.
When managing a website, content changes are inevitable. Articles get updated, pages evolve, and information needs to stay current. But what happens when you need to undo a change or review who edited what? That’s where content versioning in Joomla comes in.
Mastering Joomla Content Versioning: How to Track, Compare, and Restore Article Changes Read Post »
“Web-T is a multilingual, automated website translation solution developed under the European Commission’s DIGITAL Europe programme. This free tool translates website content and SEO text into more than 24 languages, helping companies expand their business and reach a wider audience across Europe.”
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 struggles to launch. Content strategy is concerned with an organization’s selection, creation, maintenance, and distribution of its content over the web.
The Other Half of the CMS Equation: Why Content Collection Matters Read Post »
When this issue of the JCM comes out, Joomla 6 has just been launched. A new major version of your favorite CMS has seen the light of day 🎉. And if you know our awesome, well-structured roadmap, you’re probably not even a bit surprised by that, because it was announced ages ago: major new versions every two years. Which is, you guessed it, now, for Joomla 6.
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.
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.
Workflows Made Visible: Introducing Joomla’s Workflow Graph Editor Read Post »
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.
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?
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.
Documentation that helps your clients – and Joomla! Read Post »
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.
The Blind Spots of Accessibility testing Tools – The Focus Read Post »
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.
Putting Pizza Bugs and Fun together: a testament about community’s engagement Read Post »
