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Happy 20th Anniversary

Happy 20th Anniversary

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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.

Using the Modal from Regular Labs gives you the opportunity to extend your content, image, video, or an external link into a popup that displays it.

 

Extension info

OUR RATING

  • Total Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
  • Functionality: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
  • Ease of use: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
  • Support / Documentation: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

 

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The word Modal implies "relating to mode or form as opposed to substance", and this is actually what it does. The Extension Modal from Regular Labs is useful for displaying pop-up content on your page. We use it for our articles, to display information about the author.

Some of Modals features

  • Image modal
    If you have an image that is large, you can use this extension to popup a larger image of the displayed _thumbmail. This is very useful when dealing with large images with high contrast, you can then easily connect the image to a modal and have the user click for a larger version (See the image on right). 
  • Popup external links
    This feature is handy if you have links to external sites, but don't want the reader to leave your site. (You cannot open non-SSL (http) urls inside a SSL (https) website, nor can you  open SSL (https) urls inside a non-SSL (http) website).
  • Create an image gallery
    With Modal, you can easily insert a image gallery.
  • Link content directly
    If you don't want to create an article for your content, you can simply create it on the fly
  • Articles
    If you in the other hand has created an article, and want to display it in a popup, you can do so
  • Display Videos
    You can easily include videos from sites like YouTube, Vimeo, and others in a popup window when the reader clicks a link.
  • Auto-load
    The Auto-load can be used for popups when someone enters a page. (Auto Popups are annoying, and not recommendable) 

 

 

Advantages
  • Free (Basic functions)
  • Easy to use
  • Have great documentation
DisAdvantages
  •  Only have support for URLs in the Free version

 

More information about Regular Labs

Regular Labs is a company that creates and offers extensions for the Joomla content management system (CMS). They have been in business since 2008 and have a wide range of extensions that can be used to extend Joomla's functionality and make repetitive tasks easier and faster.

Some of their most popular extensions include:

Advanced Module Manager - This extension allows you to easily manage your modules, including their position, visibility, and settings.
Modules Anywhere - This extension allows you to place modules anywhere on your Joomla site, including in custom areas that are not ordinarily accessible to modules.
Sourcerer Sourcerer - This extension lets you easily import and export Joomla content, including articles, menus, and categories.
Regular Labs extensions are known for being high-quality, well-supported, and easy to use. They are also very affordable, with most extensions starting at just $15.

If you use Joomla, I highly recommend checking out Regular Labs extensions. They can save you a lot of time and hassle and help you make your Joomla site look and function how you want it to.

Here are some additional information about Regular Labs:

  • Their website is https://regularlabs.com/
  • They have a team of 10 developers and support staff
  • They have over 1 million downloads of their extensions
  • They are certified Joomla! partner

Source Google Bard 2023

All Regular Labs extensions:

If you use Regular Labs' Extensions, you may have noticed the way that the extensions interact with each other. This is good for consistency. Regular Labs and Peter van Westen have, over the years, in an ingenious way, mastered the genius way that its Components/Plugins work together. 

Extension list:

Add to Menu (Only Joomla 3), Advanced Module Manager, Advanced Template Manager (Only Joomla 3), Articles Anywhere, Article Field, Better Frontend Link (Only Joomla 4 & 5), Better Preview (Only Joomla 3), Better Trash (Only Joomla 3), Cache Cleaner, CDN for Joomla, Components Anywhere (Only Joomla 3), Conditional Content, Content Templater, DB Replacer, Dumy Content (Only Joomla 3), Email Protector, GeoIP, IP Login, Keyboard Shortcuts, Modals, Modules Anywhere, Quick Index, ReReplacer, Simple User Notes (Only Joomla 3), Sliders (Only Joomla 3), Snippets, Sourcerer, Tabs (Only Joomla 3), Tabs & Accordions (Only Joomla 4 & 5), Tooltips (Only Joomla 4 & 5), and "What? Nothing!", see the complete list here!

 

All is managed through its extension Regular LabsExtension Manager.

 

 

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