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
Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons is a plugin for Joomla
The joomlarrssb plugin adds social sharing buttons and Open Graph metadata tags to com_content items. It is an official Joomla Project plugin, originally built for the joomla.org website network, and fully compatible with Joomla 4.x, 5.x, and the newly released Joomla 6. It places clean, responsive sharing buttons on your content pages and — perhaps more valuably — automatically generates Open Graph tags for every article on your site.
TL:DR – Once built and uploaded, this just works. The Open Graph tag generation is reason enough to install it.
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Read more: Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for Joomla
Joomla and the end of Internet Explorer: the right call, fully vindicated
When Joomla! 4.0 shipped with Bootstrap 5 and dropped Internet Explorer support, it was a bold move that drew some grumbling from enterprise corners. In 2026, with Internet Explorer long since dead and buried by Microsoft itself, that decision looks not just correct but visionary. Here is why it mattered, what has happened since, and what it means for Joomla developers today.
TL:DR – If you are arriving at this article because someone in your organisation is still asking about Internet Explorer support: the answer is no, and it has been no for years. Point them to Microsoft's retirement announcement and move on. There is better work to be done.
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Joomla! tracks article hits automatically, and in Joomla 5 and 6 that behaviour remains unchanged — every article view increments a counter stored directly in the database. When you're preparing a site for launch, handing it over to a client, or simply tidying up after a period of testing, resetting those counters to zero is a common housekeeping task. It's worth being clear upfront: article hits are not the same as page-level analytics. If you need granular traffic data, you'll want a dedicated analytics integration — Joomla 6 supports several through its extension ecosystem — but for the built-in hit counter, a single SQL statement is all it takes.
TL:DR – An easy way to reset all the Hits for all your articles.
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An easy security improvement for a Joomla-based CMS.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) provides essential protection against unauthorised logins even when a password has been stolen or guessed. In 2026, with credential-stuffing attacks and AI-assisted brute-force attempts at an all-time high, 2FA is no longer optional for any serious Joomla deployment. Joomla has supported 2FA natively since version 3.2, and the implementation has matured significantly through the Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 release cycles.
TL:DR – 2FA secures your site login with a secondary code that changes every 30 seconds, or with a physical hardware key that must be physically present. You can generate codes on a mobile device, a desktop password manager, or a USB security key — and modern operating systems now handle much of this without any third-party app at all.
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Bootstrap's integration into Joomla has been one of the most consequential architectural decisions in the CMS's history. In 2026, with Joomla 5.x firmly established and the Joomla 6.x series actively in development, that decision continues to pay dividends. This article traces the journey from Bootstrap 5.0's adoption in Joomla 4.0 through to the present day — examining what the framework shift meant at the time, how it reshaped the developer experience, and where Joomla's Bootstrap-powered front end stands today.
Joomla 4.0 launched in August 2021, shipping with Bootstrap 5.0 and marking a clean break from the jQuery-dependent, IE-burdened past. Joomla 5.x followed that trajectory, adopting Bootstrap 5.3 and delivering a more refined, accessible, and performant foundation. The community is now working toward Joomla 6.x, which promises to deepen those gains further — but the story really begins with the bold call to ship Bootstrap 5.0 when many CMS projects were still hedging.
TL:DR – Shipping with Bootstrap 5 was a turning point. It cleared out legacy debt, modernised the component library, and gave Joomla a credible front-end story heading into the mid-2020s.
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