Joomla

Hot on the heels of our TechNews tech-review template for Joomla we’ve got a brand new open-source plugin for everyone; GK Rating. Find out how this simple plugin can expand your content with stylish review score blocks.

The Joomla 3.5 first beta release went live on November 11th, 2015, and we’ve had a look to find out what important changes are coming your way once the full release drops this December.

When building your online presence it pays to have a easily-recognizable avatar, and with Gravatar you can instantly access your unique image on sites across the web. Joomla websites don’t include this feature as standard, but integrating it is easy in this simple developer’s tutorial.

Joomla includes many options for building a multilanguage website; you can add your own language text easily to your content, and modules or templates can include language files ready to be modified. However, Joomla also offers an alternative method, called Language Overrides, which may be a more comfortable option.

Part four of our Joomla tips and tricks series is here, including an alternative solution for developers who want to use multiple templates in Joomla without being restricted to using menu items.

The third entry in our Joomla tricks series steps back from the hard coding of previous articles and looks at something even beginners can appreciate; filtering searches to limit results by category, site location and more. Learn how it works in the complete tutorial.

In part 2 of our series on Joomla coding tips and tricks, we look at how we can apply some minor functionalities usually reserved for plugins and place them instead directly in the template code; read on to find out how!

In part one of our series of Joomla coding tips, we look at how you can add custom HTML content to your titles to allow for diverse, interesting CSS styling that will provide a professional look to your Joomla template.

The Bootstrap developers celebrated its fourth birthday in style by releasing the alpha of the upcoming version 4 of Bootstrap, which packs in a whole lot of improvements. Join us as we look at how Bootstrap has changed.

For Joomla’s birthday we created a free template and a popular quiz on Joomla, called JoomQuiz. If you’ve given it a go, check here to get all the answers and see where you went wrong!