Joomla 4.3 one step closer

Welcome to the first episode of Hepta Extensions Podcast. Your weekly news about Joomla and web development.

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Joomla 4.3 is one step closer

We can already download the first release candidate of Joomla 4.3. A version with interesting usability improvements compared to Joomla 4.2 and that brings guided tours as the most outstanding functionality. Remember that this version is only for testing and should not be used in production. You know, the experiments at home and with soda...

VirtueMart announces that automatic updates will be paid

In a note on their blog, VirtueMart announces that the next one-click updates will only be available to subscribers. The code to make the updates will be available through their SVN repository and they will also publish a tutorial so that anyone with enough time and desire can update to the latest versions. With this change, it is intended to make the development of the extension more sustainable.

We read these publications

• From NorrNext they bring us a guide to hide the administration URL in Joomla.
• The March issue of the Joomla magazine has been published. This time it comes with an article I wrote on how to develop web applications with Joomla.
• DJ-Extensions has published the second part of their biased article about the best extensions for Joomla 4. Spoiler: they are all their own.
• We got the notice of a Scala Hosting article about the best B2B extensions for Joomla. In Mastermind Web podcast we made an episode where we talked about ecommerce with Joomla, and we listed most of these extensions (sorry it's in Spanish).
• Tim Davis did his Monday maintenance video with a reminder about how to recover forgotten passwords in Joomla.
• JUG London has released the video of the talk "Breaking Joomla" given by Nicholas Dionysopoulos at their January meeting.
• In his live Watch me work session, Tim Davis shows us how to add a button on our sites, so users can add events to their calendars.

We got these extension updates

• Joomla CK has released version 2.4 of Slideshow CK which now allows you to insert your sliders into your Joomla content.
• We have a new version of the JCE editor. In this case, Ryan wrote some documentation created by chatGPT !
• They're still going strong on Weeblr and Yannick has posted 4SEF 1.4.1 and a new version of 4Podcast (1.4.0) - we proudly use to distribute this podcast. Thank you very much Yannick!!

And that's all!! If you find any interesting article or want to tell the world about your product or updates, drop me a line, and you might do it into the next episode ;)

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