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Happy 20th Anniversary

Happy 20th Anniversary

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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.

Earn Money on your Joomla Website

If you have a website developed with Joomla CMS, you can earn money on your site. Using affiliate links from different sources and putting their ads in your content, you can sell products from your website. 


 

What are Affiliate links, and how to earn money through displaying ads on your website?

Affiliate Marketing links are links to products on a vendor’s site. By this, you will get a commission each time you either generate a sale or get a click on the product.

How to quickly set up and use Joomla to earn money through Affiliate ADs?

In editors like JCE (Joomla Content Editor), you can not add the script directly into the content. The best way to do this is by using an extension that inserts code into your article. One of these extensions is Sourcerer from Regular Labs.

 

In conjunction with using Sourcerer, you can use the extension Snippets, which also comes from Regular Labs. Snippets are triggered by a key code in your content, leaving you with full control over where to put ads in your content. If the code needs to be changed, you only need to change it in the Snippet extension from your Component Menu in Joomla.

 

Snippet is a programming term for a small region of re-usable source code, machine code, or text. Ordinarily, these are formally defined operative units to incorporate into larger programming modules. Snippet management is a feature of some text editors, program source code editors, IDEs, and related software. Wikipedia

 

If you use JCE Editor to publish articles its easy to combine Snippets and Sourcerer from Regular Labs to display the ads, simply go into Components Snippets New Snippet (you can use the free version).

Use Regular Labs - Snippets to earn money on your website

Chose <> Code, and insert your ads code

Use Regular Labs - Sourcerer to earn money on your website

To insert the Snippets in your article, click the Snippet button in your editor.

Will Affiliate ads have an impact on my SEO?

Having a good rank in search engines like Google is not easy to get, but the good thing is that numerous studies say that Affiliate Ads do not impact how Google ranks your site if you don’t overdo it and place too many ads in your content.

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