Happy 20th Anniversary

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.

Details: Written by: Bjørn Ove Bremnes; Parent Category: Tips & Tricks; Category: Basic WebDesign - Tutorials; Published: 11 October 2020

Have you ever been frustrated by styling a page for then realize that every image contains a white line underneath, I saw this trick on Youtube and tried it with Joomla. The result was that line disappeared. This issue resides from the early internet when we've to use inline images in the text.

IN INternerts early days it was very common to use images inside a text, back then there was eighter Desktops or Laptops that were used as surf method. The internet has evolved since those days, and we now use images on top of the text. Therefore it's very useful to hide the line that displays under the image. Here are two examples that show this:

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