Joomla! Community Magazine

• The October Issue

  When this issue of the JCM comes out, Joomla 6 has just been launched. A new major version of your favorite CMS has seen the light of day 🎉. And if you know our awesome, well-structured roadmap, you're probably not even a bit surprised by that, because it was announced ages ago: major new versions every two years. Which is, you guessed it, now, for Joomla 6.

• Six WOW Factors of Joomla! 6

  In your opinion, what is a WOW-factor? Is it fancy features, shiny stuff or glittering gadgets? When it comes to content management systems, the WOW- factors may lie in completely different things.  

• Mastering Joomla Content Versioning: How to Track, Compare, and Restore Article Changes

  When managing a website, content changes are inevitable. Articles get updated, pages evolve, and information needs to stay current. But what happens when you need to undo a change or review who edited what? That’s where content versioning in Joomla comes in.

• Automatic core updates in Joomla

  With the release of Joomla 5.4 and Joomla 6.0 on 14 October 2025, the Joomla project introduces a significant innovation: automatic updates for the core system. This feature makes it possible to keep Joomla installations up to date reliably and without manual intervention – an important step towards increasing the security and maintainability of Joomla websites.

• Cassiopeia’s Child Learns to Dress Itself: Colors and Font Sizes in Joomla’s core template

  Joomla 6 is out and it brings a great example of a Child Template with new options for colors and font sizes.