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
A client had me set up Google Analytics on WordPress. I'm a Joomla person. What could possibly go wrong?
TL:DR – Step by step setup of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for a WordPress-based website using Google Site Kit, including how to verify your setup with Google Tag Assistant in 2026.
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Building a custom module for Joomla! 5.x and beyond is more straightforward than the sprawling, often contradictory documentation on the internet might suggest. Here's a practical walkthrough — written for 2026 — that cuts through the noise and gets you to a working module quickly.
TL:DR – Most Joomla tutorials online are years out of date and target older versions. The single most reliable source remains the Official Joomla Module Development Tutorial, now maintained under the Joomla Programmers Documentation (currently at version 6.1 of the manual). Everything below is based on that resource, adapted for Joomla 5.x, with my own notes and observations layered on top.
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In 2026, integrating Stripe into Joomla remains one of the most practical ways to add robust subscription and payment handling to your Joomla CMS based site. This guide walks through building a custom Joomla plugin that uses the Stripe PHP library to handle payments, creates a subscription via the Stripe API, and ties that subscription to a Joomla user account.
The process involves three main stages: installing the Stripe CLI for command-line access to your Stripe integration, pulling in the Stripe PHP server-side SDK via Composer, and wiring the SDK into Joomla's plugin framework. The Stripe PHP SDK has matured considerably, and Stripe's API surface is now more consistent and better documented than ever — making this a realistic DIY project for developers comfortable with PHP and Joomla extension development.
Note – This integration requires a working knowledge of terminal commands, PHP, and the Joomla CMS plugin framework. Joomla 5.x is assumed throughout, though the plugin structure is broadly compatible with Joomla 4.x and Joomla 6.x.
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Writing a plugin for Joomla remains one of the most direct ways to extend the CMS without touching core files. Joomla's plugin architecture is event-driven: your code registers as a listener, waits for the system or another extension to fire a named event, and responds accordingly. The fundamentals haven't changed dramatically, but the shift toward PHP 8.2+ conventions, stricter typing, and Joomla's modern dispatcher system means the boilerplate you'll write today looks noticeably cleaner than it did even a couple of years ago.
TL:DR – A step-by-step guide to building a simple, installable Joomla 5 plugin in 2026. Get the structure right once and every plugin you write after becomes much faster to ship.
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Integrating Stripe with Joomla in 2026 is more straightforward than ever, thanks to dedicated extensions and a Stripe API that has grown significantly more capable. Whether you run a membership site, an event registration page, or a simple donation form, there is now a purpose-built path for almost every use case — no heavy e-commerce suite required.
TL:DR – Below is a step-by-step guide covering the two main routes: using a dedicated Stripe payment extension (recommended for most sites) and integrating the Stripe API directly for developers who need full control.
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