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On April 15, 2025, Joomla 5.3 is expected. If you have a website with Joomla version 4.x or 5.x, you can update your Joomla website with 1 click. This release brings many small (code) improvements and there will be a number of options and features added. In this article I will show you the most important changes.

WordPress is undoubtedly the most popular CMS, but it is not always the best choice for every website. For users looking for more flexibility and functionality - whether you want to build a small blog, a medium-sized corporate website or a complex online application - Joomla can be a valuable alternative. Joomla offers more features by default, making you less dependent on plugins and customizations. This makes it an excellent choice for various types of projects, from simple sites to more advanced applications.

In this article, I will explain the main differences between Joomla and WordPress, and you will discover why Joomla can be a good alternative to WordPress in terms of performance, accessibility and SEO.

On October 15, 2024, Joomla 5.2 will be released. During the JoomlaDagen (JD24NL) in Tilburg told the release managers that the focus of Joomla 5.2 will be on consistency and not on adding a lot of additional features. Yet there are a number of new features that I will explain further below.

On April 16, 2024, Joomla 5.1 was released. Do you have a website with Joomla version 4.x or 5.x, then you can update your Joomla website with 1 push of a button.

This release brings many small (code) improvements and there will be a number of options and features added. In this article I will show you the most important changes.

The Dutch JoomlaDagen is the largest event in the Netherlands for users of the Joomla CMS. This annual two-day event provides a great opportunity for Joomla users to learn about the latest developments and innovations of the platform, and to network with other professionals in the Joomla community. In this blog post, I will discuss what the Dutch JoomlaDagen are, why they are important for Joomla users, and what you can expect if you participate in this event.

In this article I will show you the main improvements and new features that the Joomla 4.2 version brings.

A new minor update (version 4.1) in the Joomla 4 series was released in February 2022. In this article I will show you all the improvements and new features that this version brings.

The past few years have proven by now that being visible online is becoming increasingly important. But do you know where you stand? How do you score in the search engines and how are your competitors doing? And above all, what could be better about your website?

Joomla version 4.0 was released on Aug. 17, 2021. What does this new version mean? What changes and what new features can you expect? And how does the update or migration to Joomla 4 work? In this article I will tell you everything you need to know about the latest version.

This past year I was tasked with cleaning up a large Joomla website. And that cleanup was definitely needed! Dozens of extensions, hundreds of images, more than 1,300 unused articles and almost 2,500 unnecessary modules I was able to clean up. In this article, I'll explain how you can clean up your website yourself so that it remains a workable environment.

When you get started building a Web site, you make many mistakes (often unconsciously). The great thing is that you can learn from every mistake, so you can never make enough mistakes. But let's avoid these mistakes and do things the right way.

Joomla 3.9 is released today (October 30, 2018) and contains a lot of new features. In this article, I will tell a bit more about the main new features of Joomla version 3.9. Joomla version 3.9 will add about 250 new features!

"Joomla is only meant for small websites, right?" is a question I sometimes hear my prospective clients ask. That Joomla, like Wordpress and other systems, is widely used by hobbyists, individuals, SMEs and small associations is certainly true. The CMS is good to use for small websites (I do that myself, of course), but it is not true that the system would not be suitable for larger websites.

In this short series of blog articles I'm going to talk about the misconceptions I've heard about Joomla in recent years. I try to assume the power of Joomla itself but will not be able to avoid making a comparison with other systems.

When it comes to e-commerce, you probably first think of selling to consumers. In itself not a strange thought because it is well known that consumers are buying more and more online. But B2B webshops are also becoming increasingly popular, and Hikashop has plenty of opportunities to be active in this market as well.

In this short series of blog articles I am going to talk about the misconceptions I have heard about Joomla in recent years. I try to assume the power of Joomla itself but will not be able to avoid making a comparison with other systems. In this series I start with the main reason why I still work with this CMS, security.

The Joomla User Group Breda (JUG Breda for short) is organizing a full HikaShop day for a second time on Saturday, November 25, 2017.

In this article, we are going to take a look at ourselves. It's always fun to see how a website has evolved. I dived into my backup archive and that's quite a job to get older Joomla versions running with the all kinds of different system requirements etc. But it worked and I have the complete history of this website listed.

Again this year I had planned some weeks off during the summer to give myself and family some rest. And what are you going to do then? Right! Clean up your own website, because that was already 2 years ago. Over the past 2 years I've learned a lot, when it comes to content, but also technology and I wanted to implement all that into the website. In this blog I will show you what has changed (under the hood).

Joomla 3.7 is expected at the end of March and contains a lot of new features. In this article I will tell a bit more about the new features of Joomla version 3.7.

On July 12, 2016, Joomla version 3.6 will be released. As we are used to, there will again be many improvements in this version. In this article I will tell you more about the new features.

The Joomla User Group Breda organizes the very first Joomla Extension day in the Netherlands on Saturday, June 11. During this day we will cover the different components of HikaShop, the popular web store extension for Joomla.

On March 21, 2016, we can expect the first stable version of Joomla 3.5. There are again a number of improvements and new features added to the system. You can read the most important changes here, of course. A fun fact is that several Dutch developers have again been involved in this release.

A Joomla website that is not properly maintained is potentially vulnerable and can become a target of a hacker. I've come across several hacked websites over the past few years and none are the same. So there is also no 1 solution, but if you follow these steps, you are most likely to be able to recover your website (for the most part).

Last year Joomla announced the new release cycle with an emphasis on releasing small regular updates instead of the complicated long/short updates. The release of 3.4 comes a bit later than planned, but today (Feb. 24, 2015) we can expect the first stable version.

Video marketing is popular. More and more I get the request to add videos to a Joomla website. These include corporate videos, instructional videos and even customer reviews through videos I've come across in the past year. Since self-hosting often takes too much disk space and the videos load too slowly, is often used video hosting. In this article I look at the features, pluses and minuses of Youtube, Vimeo and Wistia.