Joomla News

San Jose is located in California’s legendary Silicon Valley, home of web giants like Google, Facebook, Apple, Ebay…and most recently Joomla! (for three days at least). This past November, the first ever Joomla World Conference was held at the Ebay campus in San Jose, California.

Checkout this neat infographic from SiteGround. That's right, my favorite Joomla Hosting company is now offering Daily backups of your Joomla site.

That's right. The event that I've been looking forward to all year is finally near. The first ever Joomla World Conference starts this week, from November 16th through the 18th in beautiful San Jose, California.

One of the major improvements with Joomla 2.5 is it's native language features. And now, with the 2.5.7 update, it's easier than ever to install any of the over 80 language packs available - directly from the Joomla Extension Manager! This is exciting stuff folks. Check out the demonstration video below by Javier Gómez from the Open Source Matters team.

Joomla Direct is a proud sponsor of the all-new Joomla! 2.5 Beginner's Guide, by Hagen Graf - founder of Cocoate.com This guide is THE go-to manual for getting started with Joomla. It contains over 250 pages chock-full of images & diagrams that explain it all!

I hope you're as excited as I am about the release of Joomla 2.5, which boasts over 24 new features. While many of these are major improvements from 1.7, you probably won't notice them right off the batt after upgrading. So, I've gathered a list of the 5 most useful features of Joomla 2.5 that you can start using right away.