All the Joomla News for August 2024
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Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
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Published: 04 September 2024 04 September 2024
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Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
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Development on Joomla 5.2 is Underway
Joomla 5.1 was released in April. Joomla is now on a 6-month release cycle so we can expect Joomla 5.2 to arrive in October. The second Beta version is now available.
See the Joomla 5.2 Beta release
How to Create a Full-Screen Photo Homepage
This guide shows how to build a website for a beach club with a full screen photograph of the beach on the homepage. The tutorial uses CSS, a tiny bit of Javascript, and existing Cassiopeia template options. |
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Video: Empty the Joomla Trash Regularly
Tim Davis says, "Deleting things in Joomla gets them out of the way, but to really clean things up you have to empty the trash!" |
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Joomla's Documentation is Improving Fast
Robbie Jackson writes, "For the first time since getting involved with Joomla I’m actually excited about the state of Joomla documentation for extension developers! I joined the small team contributing to the manual about a year ago, and it’s been very satisfying to see the Manual taking shape." |
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Video: Is it time to Switch from PHP 8.1 to 8.2 or 8.3?
Tim Davis says, "Joomla sites are increasingly warning that PHP 8.1 is only receiving security updates and on its way out. Here is how to test to see if your Joomla site will run on PHP 8.2 or PHP 8.3." |
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Video: Back up and Restore your Joomla Website using Akeeba Backup and Akeeba Kickstart
Ian Southwell says, "I'll show you how to back up your website and restore it to a new location. This is essential if you're changing hosting provider or want to move or clone your Joomla website |
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How to Build a Joomla Events Extension, Part 2
Herman Peeren is an excellent Joomla developer and has written two great articles that show how to create a custom component. |
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Video: How to Enable Voting for Articles or Not on your Joomla Site
Tim Davis says, "Joomla has a core voting plugin that lets visitors rate articles - and it has lots of ways to control which articles can and can't be voted on." |
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Joomla Days D-A-CH and Spain
There are two big Joomla events in Europe this autumn:
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