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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.

A few resources on Joomla

Finding top resources for Joomla on the Web is not as easy as it seems, but I have gathered a few good places to start here.

 

If you are looking for help with your Joomla website, you can search on Google for Joomla help. But it is not easy to find out which resources to use.

Where to get help width Joomla?

As you probably know, finding the way thru Google is not easy. Here are a few of our top resources to find info about Joomla!

Joomla.org resources

  • Joomla logo, Joomla Magazine , Joomla Magazine is a free online magazine that is published every month. Here are articles from many writers.
  • Joomla logo, Joomla.org Docs , The Joomla Docs page is a handy resource.
  • Joomla logo, Joomla.org Forum , The Joomla Forum is a great way to get help width your Joomla site. The Forum is driven by the users feedback.
  • Joomla logo, Joomla User Groups , User-groups is a good resource to use if you want to know who other Joomla users are, many of the groups have online monthly meetings.
  • Joomla logo, Launch a Free Joomla Site , With this free service, you can launch free Joomla Test sites without any obligations.
 

Other Joomla Resources

 

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