Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
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Joomla 5.1 is Coming in April
We're expecting the release of Joomla 5.1 in mid-April. The Joomla team is now on a 6 month release cycle. Joomla 5 was released in October, so Joomla 5.1 is due this month.
Joomla Day USA is both an in-person event and a live event. It will be held in Nashville, plus it will also be open for online users. The event will bring together Joomla leaders, experts and enthusiasts from around the world.
We've posted several articles in the last few months about email records and deliverability. Tim Davis shows a simple way to test your email address for deliverability.
Daniel Dubois wrote a guide showing how to change the frontend display of the default Joomla login screen. Daniel uses template overrides to modify the layout and text for the logn area.
Charvi Mehra has been contributing to Joomla for a couple of years now. She has built a Docker environment to make it easier to test new Joomla releases or even your own site.
Yannick from Weeblr wrote a guide to canonical URLs and their impact on SEO. This is useful knowledge because many websites allow the same page to be accessed via multiple addresses, and this can confuse search engines.
Video: Create a Members-Only Section on Your Website
Want to create a premium section on your website for registered users? This comprehensive Joomla 5 tutorial will guide you through the entire process, step-by-step
Philip Walton's latest article in the Joomla Community Magazine explores the future of Joomla web design. It discusses some of the latest CSS enhancements that are set to redefine Joomla sites' capabilities.
Peter Martin created a free Joomla 4 and 5 admin module to document the colors used in your website. He used to build custom HTML back-end modules for this, but after messing up a couple of times (saving in WYSIWYG editor removed the layout), he decided to program a small module.
