J4.x:Magazine Articles

Articles with tutorial content

This list is for articles related to Joomla 4 from 2020 to June 2023.

Accessibility

• An Introduction To Website Accessibility

Analytics

• As Googles Universal Analytics comes to a close, what alternatives if any do you need?
• But I really do need Google Analytics 4, show me how to add it.
• Google Analytics GA4 Reporting...
• Visualising Data with Google Looker Studio, formerly Data Studio
• Web Analytics: Alternative to Google Analytics? Matomo
• Matomo, Cloud or Self Hosting?

Case Studies

• Joomla 4 for Clients, Part 1: Managing Users, Access, & Permissions
• Joomla 4 for Clients, Part 2: Creating a Streamlined Admin Experience
• Case Study: a different domain for each language
• Where is this image from and how can I change it?
• Everything Under One Roof

Customisation

• How to Customize the Joomla 5 Login Page
• Joomla 4: Customising Admin Dashboards
• My favourite Joomla 4 feature - customizable dashboard
• Customizing Joomla 4's Smart Search Results Pages with Images, Custom Fields and a new Layout
• How to create a reading bar in your Joomla website
• Follow Up - The Joomla! Out of the Box Challenge
• Style your Joomla website: Articles - Newsflash
• Style your Joomla website: Bring color to your menu
• Creating a custom Form field type in Joomla 5 using the Modal Select example
• CSS is evolving, evolve your code with this simple guide
• Creating full width Joomla modules inside content
• Create a banner from Joomla's category description

Developer

• GitHub - Installing Git
• Joomla Web Services API 101 - Tokens, Testing and a Taste Test
• New image convention to help developers
• Get to know the new Joomla! Task Scheduler
• Scheduled Tasks
• Joomla 4: A Powerful CLI Application
• Playing with the Joomla Web Services (API) - part 1
• Playing with the Joomla Web Services (API) - part 2
• Playing with the Joomla Web Services (API) - part 3
• Playing with the Joomla Web Services (API) - part 4
• End-to-end testing with Joomla! and Cypress - My First Steps and thoughts
• JoRobo: How to professionally manage extension development
• Tools to build a Component - Episode 1: Introduction and Core Solution
• Tools to build a Component - 2: An Embedded Application
• Tools to build a Component - 3: Creating a Component!
• Tools to build a Component - 4: Built-in Extras and some Setup Tools

Explore the Core

• Explore the Core: Energize Your Joomla 4 Website with the Banner Manager
• Explore the core! Structure your Content with Categories
• Explore the Core - Create articles on your Joomla 4 website
• Explore the core! Give your site a comfortable navigation
• Explore the Core! A look into the advanced parameters from modules.
• Explore the Core - Workflows
• Explore the Core - Accessibility Add-ons in Joomla 4.1
• Explore the Core: Easily embed PDFs in your Joomla content
• Explore the Core - Using the Latest Articles Module on your website
• Explore the Core: Articles - Most Read
• Joomla Explore The Core: Using Tags
• Explore the Core - Contact Component - Part 1
• Explore the core - Contact Component - Part 2
• Explore The Core: Newsflash Module
• Explore the Core: How to easily embed videos in your Joomla Articles
• Explore the Core: Native SEO Options
• Explore The Core: Articles Related
• Explore the core: resize your images upon upload
• Explore the Core - Smart Search and Search results settings
• Understand and create forms with conditional custom fields
• Explore the core: multiple pages, tabs and sliders with the Page Break Plugin

Extensions

• More than 30 gems for Joomla 4 I can't live without
• Turning the Joomla website into an ActivityPub server and being an independent participant in the Fediverse - A start

Features

• Joomla 4: The new Workflow feature
• Joomla Privacy Tool Suite
• Custom Fields - Episode 7 Part 1: one Custom Field to rule them all
• Custom Fields - Episode 7 Part 2: without limits
• Guiding you through Guided Tours
• A builder's guide to Guided Tours
• Guided Tours: Getting Better and Better - Here’s What's New!
• The anatomy of smart search in Joomla 5 Part 1: Introduction.

Performance

• Joomla 4 Performance Tuning - Part I
• To Cache, Or Not To Cache, That Is The Question…
• Joomla Performance Tuning II: Basic Settings
• Joomla Performance Tuning III: Static Media Optimization
• Joomla Performance Tuning IV: Site building calisthenics
• Joomla Performance Tuning V: Content Quality

Security

• Joomla 4: Using the Security Header Features
• Passwordless authentication for secure, fast and easy logins in Joomla! 4
• A Dive into the WebAuthn API in Joomla 4
• Joomla’s New HTTP Headers Plugin For J4
• New to Joomla 4.2, Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)
• Safeguarding Your Joomla Content Against AI Crawlers

SEO

• Joomla SEO title tags: everything you must know (and more)
• Explore the Core: Native SEO Options
• Rich Snippets in Joomla 5
• Core URL Shortener: Simplify Your URLs with Apache
• Continuing on the Path to a Peak Performing Joomla Website

Templates: Cassiopeia

• Cassiopeia, Joomla’s powerful built-in template: the basics
• Joomla 4 – Cassiopeia Template – a bunch of Tips & Tricks
• Joomla 4: Tweak Cassiopeia with a top banner and horizontal navigation
• Cassiopeia, Joomla’s powerful built-in template: how to use css classes for your category blog
• Less than 10 mins to change the design of the login module
• Cassiopeia, Joomla’s powerful built-in template: how to use css classes to style images
• Content Templates - the Joomla Page Builder you didn't know you already had
• How to add an icon to the article title
• How to create a full screen photograph home page
• How to give your Joomla template a native app look
• Cassiopeia, Joomla’s powerful built-in template: how to modify the header with css grid

Templates in General

• The Pitfalls of Web Fonts: Embracing the Benefits of System Fonts for Web Design
• Less than 5 mins to change the design of the search module
• Keyword or not keyword tag, that is the question
• Joomla 4: HTML Email templating
• How to J4-ify your old Joomla 3 template
• Sweet child o' mine... A deep dive into Joomla Child Templates
• Joomla Improved Override Management
• Template Overrides - Recycle and reuse
• Joomla is Yours: create user avatars in the Backend Template Atum
• How to share a page on Facebook

Testing

• End-to-end testing with Joomla! and Cypress - My First Steps and thoughts