You don’t need a badge to contribute to Joomla. You just need to roll up your sleeves and do it.
Every website built on Joomla depends on a healthy ecosystem and that ecosystem is at risk if we only take and never give back. Without new contributors, Joomla is a forest without saplings, and the future of everything built on it is in danger.
It’s 2026. If we still need to specify that a website should be accessible, then something has gone badly wrong.
Open source doesn’t have to be about leaders at the front and followers behind. The strongest communities are the ones that move forward together.
Your website should belong to you, not a platform. It should be yours to control, yours to shape, and yours to carry forward without risk of arbitrary changes or sudden restrictions imposed by a third party.
Stop Guessing. Start Debugging.
If your first move when something breaks is to update everything, you are not troubleshooting — you are gambling.
Joomla works beautifully — if you live in the right part of the world, speak the right language, and have the right kind of time.
Joomla prides itself on being global, open, and inclusive. In this article, I ask a question that may make some people uncomfortable: what if that promise only holds true for people like us?
This tutorial explains how to add extra fields to the Joomla Contact form using Custom Fields. The process uses core Joomla functionality, requires no third-party extensions, and is fully upgrade-safe.
You’ll learn how to create a field, configure permissions correctly, control where it appears on the form, and ensure submitted values are included in the contact email.
