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.
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. Â
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.
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.
Joomla 6 is out and it brings a great example of a Child Template with new options for colors and font sizes.Â
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.