Joomla® — The Flexible Platform Empowering Website Creators
Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications.
Multizone have been building websites and content management solutions with Joomla since its inception in 2005 and love it. it may not have the market share of some of the competition, but it is award-winning, free and open-source.
Joomla! has a global community of developers and volunteers, who make sure the platform is user friendly, extendable, multilingual, accessible, responsive, search engine optimized and more.
How to get started with Joomla!
Joomla! is free, open, and available to anyone under the GPL. If you are unfamiliar with this license, you might want to read the GNU General Public License FAQ. Read Getting Started with Joomla! to find out the basics.
If you're ready to install Joomla! by yourself ou can download the latest version of Joomla! and you'll be up and running in no time.
Joomla tech notes and demos
Joomla 5.x, on Ubuntu 24.04, with PHP 8.3
Two years after installing Ubuntu 22.04 a third party software update completely broke my Joomla site development computer. Yeah I should have known better! So, nows the time to rebuild. I've chosen to use Ubuntu 24.04 desktop, which is about to be released, and is in the very final stages of work, and pretty much finished, so that I can find our whats new, and if anything I care about is broken and hopefully then remain as updated as I dare for the forseeable future.
What will be installed
- Apache 2, MySQL, and PHP
- Joomla 5.x in multiple virtual sites
- ddclient for auto updating DNS host IP addresses, because this is a laptop
- certbot for Let's Encrypt SSL certificates
TL:DR — This is always an interesting exercise because it makes you think about all the first principles for running a content management system like Joomla. Where and how your databases will be set up, how exactly are you going to set up the web server, will your network support Let's Encrypt certificate renewal. It can be challenging to hold it all in your head, so I tend to write everything down these days and take screenshots. It becomes self documenting. I hope it is helpful to someone.
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WYSIWYG editing in Joomla 5
Joomla 5 introduces Fontawesome 6.4, and already has Bootstrap 5, but it can be a pain to preview what your article might look like with Bootstrap styling and Font Awesome Icons. JCE Pro fixes that, with one simple profile configuration change which enables What you see is what you get, (WYSIWYG) editing in Joomla.
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Joomla can be annoying sometimes. You try to add a fancy icon to your article like this, , but when you save your article the icon isn't there. On inspection you can see the tags have been removed!
This is irritating, but before you spend all day trying to understand it, there is an easy solution.
TL:DR: Learn just enough about editor settings to configure Joomla so editing is how you want it to be.
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First, do you need a sitemap?
A sitemap is a file where you provide structured information intended for web crawlers such as search engines. You might need a sitemap if your site is complex and/or multilingual. You might not need a sitemap if you have a small site, (Google say less than 500 pages), or if your site content is comprehensively linked from menus, or if you don't have videos, images or news pages that you'd like to appear in search results.
But if you do need or want a sitemap for Joomla, it is a simple task to add a sitemap to Joomla..
TL:DR: If you do, just Download OSMap from Joomlashack, it is free, although there is a Pro version should you need it.
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Icons in Joomla Menus
This is a relatively new feature in Joomla 4.1 and later, and it really helps make menus look more professional.
Icon from bootstrap icons, font awesome, or any icon font supported by your template can be used.
TL:DR: Make your Joomla menus look better with icons, easily.
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- Menu link class in Joomla Cassiopeia
- Scalable Vector Graphics in Joomla
- Joomla search engine friendly (SEF) site optimisation (SEO)
- Find and replace across all your Joomla articles
- Enhancing Joomla CMS Site Security with SSH Keys
- Updating Joomla 4 to latest
- Joomla Cassiopeia template resource kit
- Roboto font is installed with Joomla
- Using the Joomla Command-Line Interface (CLI)
- Joomla 4.1.x on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Php 8.1 (whew)
- Adding external News Feeds to your Joomla 4 site
- socialcards - a twitter meta data plugin for Joomla