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I started with Joomla in 2006, back when it was still Joomla 1.0. Twenty one years later, it is the platform I build my work and my business on. That feels like a good reason to stop and look back, so let me tell you how a CMS became such a big part of my story.

Site speed, clean design, great content — you can get all of that right and still lose everything to a single line of code you never wrote. Joomla powers hundreds of thousands of real businesses, which makes it a permanent target. And here's the part most site owners learn the hard way: getting hacked is bad, but staying hacked is worse — because a well-built backdoor is designed to survive the very cleanup that's supposed to remove it.

It can be alarming to install a performance plugin only to see your GTmetrix Grade drop from an A to a B, or your Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) increase.

Don't panic! In 99% of cases, the plugin has not slowed down your site. Instead, you are likely seeing a temporary testing anomaly caused by how GTmetrix interacts with caches and CDNs.

Managing Joomla content just got significantly more powerful.

We are thrilled to announce the release of version 0.2.0 of the n8n-nodes-joomreem-content community node. This isn't just a minor patch—it brings full, native support for Joomla Custom Fields, closing the gap between simple automation and complex, dynamic content management.

If you've been thinking about switching to Joomla or upgrading your Joomla site to a newer version, the time to act is now; Joomla 3.0 has finally arrived.

Standing above it's competitors in both responsive front-end design and admin-user interface, Joomla 3.0 is raising the bar in becoming the first mobile-ready CMS. Business2community.com states this latest version will feature improvements like the integration of the Bootstrap framework, which is a CSS-based 12-column responsive grid framework used exclusively in Joomla.

Whether you're redesigning your Joomla site or determining which part of your site draws the most traffic, a content audit is a critical part of that process. Thanks to the user-friendly nature of Joomla, performing a content audit is fairly straightforward.