Developing for Joomla just got easier
With new releases and personal projects, developing for Joomla is now much easier and more interesting. Let's see what our amazing community brought us in the last week of November.
New book developing extensions for joomla! 5 published
Last Thursday was published the book Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5 written by Carlos Camara (hey!! it's me!!). It aims to be a complete guide for beginners in Joomla! development.
Develop and test your joomla! extensions with cypress
Maikol Ortigueira has published a Github repository for testing and developing Joomla extensions. This solution is based on Cypress and has been inspired by the official Joomla project tests.
New security updates Joomla! 3.10.14-elts, 4.4.1 and 5.0.1
Patching vulnerability in the LanguageHelper file, the Joomla project has released versions 4.4.1 and 5.0.1 which fix the problem. This vulnerability also affects Joomla version 3 and DJumla has released version 3.10.14-elts for those with extended support contracts with them. If you do not have the extended support contract, you can install the patch that fixes the vulnerability in Joomla 3 published by TLWebdesign.
Joomlaverse in the last week of november 2023
These are the most important articles and videos of this week:
- Tim Davis shows us how to put Christmas lights on our Joomla site with the new free Joom4u module. We love it!
- Aleksius shows us on video how to upgrade a Joomla 4 site to Joomla 5.
- TemplateJoomla has the solution in this post on how to create a profitable sports blog.
- In his Monday maintenance Tim Davis leaves us a video on how to test our Joomla site with PHP 8.
- The Joomla project released the first alpha version of Joomla 5.1.
- Sergei Tolkachyov wrote a comprehensive article on how to create your own field types for Joomla forms (in Russian).
- Sergio Iglesias asked ChatGPT to tell us about his new Joomla site for a fishing club (in Spanish).
- Tim Davis interviews Olivier Buisard about his enhanced breaking news module for Joomla.
- Template Joomla presents the best templates for education sites.
This episode was written on Sunday. Take your device and go outside and take some pictures of your surroundings and share them with us!