Happy 20th Anniversary

Over two decades, the project has embodied three core values: freedom (open licensing and transparent governance), flexibility (a powerful extension ecosystem and robust templating), and innovation (modern architecture, accessibility, and performance improvements across major releases).

Looking Back

2005: The community launches Joomla, establishing a vibrant new chapter for open-source CMS development.
1.x–2.x: Rapid adoption, a growing extension directory, and a strong developer ecosystem.
3.x: Responsive templates, improved UX, and a mature ACL framework become hallmarks of the platform.
4.x–5.x: Accessibility-first design, performance gains, modern PHP standards, and streamlined workflows for administrators and developers.

The Community

Joomla’s success is powered by people—maintainers, extension developers, designers, translators, documentation teams, event organizers, and users worldwide. Their volunteer spirit and shared purpose have sustained the project’s momentum and quality for two decades.

Why Joomla Still Matters

Open and sustainable: Community-driven governance and transparent development.
Built-in power: Advanced ACL, multilingual support, and content workflows out of the box.
Extensible by design: Thousands of extensions and flexible templating for custom solutions.
Secure and performant: Ongoing security reviews, modern PHP standards, and performance enhancements.

Looking Ahead

As we celebrate 20 years, we also look to the future: continued improvements in usability, accessibility, and developer experience; deeper integration with modern tooling; and a renewed focus on performance and sustainability. The roadmap remains guided by real-world needs and the open-source ethos that has defined Joomla from the start.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed time, code, documentation, support, and inspiration. Joomla is more than software—it is a community that builds the web together.

Happy 20th Birthday, Joomla! Here’s to the next chapter.

Details: Written by: Bjørn Ove Bremnes; Parent Category: Tutorials; Category: Basic Tutorials; Published: 13 June 2020

The Akeeba Admin Tools is a great addition to securing your Joomla CMS. But there are some features that need some tweaking for running smoother. One of these is an admin's ability to change a user in the back-end.

The Admin Tools from AkeebaBackup is a very useful tool to install, but it is not set up for back-end editing of users and this can in some cases cause some problems to change the user from the Admin account.

When you install the Admin Tools it comes with the disable setting as default. This is however easy to change.

Admin Tools Professional contains a feature called Web Application Firewall. One of the security features applied by WAF is to block editing or adding Managers, Administrators, and Super Administrators.

Go to Components, Admin Tools, and click on the Web Application Firewall (WAF) button.

On the new page, click on the WAF Configuration. Find the Disable editing backend users' properties option and set it to No and Click Save & Close.

Now you can create and edit all users on your site. For security reasons, remember to re-enable this option after you're done adding/editing users!