this February issue of the Joomla! Community Newsletter!
In this issue, Joomla Events!, Joomla! Academy & PBF 2025 announcements, Highlight of a Joomla! Extension, Dev Corner and more... |
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Why did you start your Latest News Enhanced extension?
Back roughly in 2009, I was maintaining and working on quite a few sites, mostly associations website and there were quite a few things that I wanted to do that weren't in Joomla! Core at the time. I guess I could have done those for each website as overrides, but I decided that it would be better to create a module that I could install on these multiple sites... Since then Joomla has added quite a few things to its core and I have used that foundation as my basis for what additional features I should add.
What percentage of your time is spent on this extension?
Latest News Enhanced (free & Pro) are with Trombinoscope Contacts and Weblinks Logos my largest extensions today. LNE takes roughly 40% of the time I dedicated to my extensions...
Where do you see Latest News Enhanced going in the coming months?
The current version is 7.3.2 which already does a lot, but I know I am going to be working on making better and more numerous layouts as well as improving the view that allows for articles to be viewed in a table configuration.
What is Latest News Enhanced for?
First, you need to understand Latest News Enhanced exists in two versions:
Latest News Enhanced - a free module version that is like an enhanced version of the latest news module included in Joomla.
Latest News Enhanced Pro is a full-blown component. It handles blog views and is an all-in-one news/articles module presenting the featured, popular, latest, future (even pending), random or related article snippets in a professional looking fashion. It is very flexible and comes with a ton of features while being easy to use.
What advice do you have for someone starting out in Joomla Extensions development?
Start with something small... take a look at some of the small great extensions that are out there to learn, check out the Mattermost community and the Joomla! Developer documentation.. |
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Any last words? Psst... for those who read all of the way until now, use the discount code: NEWSLNEP20 and you will receive 20% discount off of Latest News Enhanced Pro valid all of Febuary 2025. |
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(Look for a full length article in a future Joomla Magazine edition) |
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Community Announcements
Joomla! Academy is coming! |
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A groundbreaking initiative by Open Source Matters (OSM), is excited to announce its inaugural projects for 2025, the Academy aims to nurture the next generation of Joomla developers while enhancing the CMS's core functionalities.
Inaugural Projects 1. Enhanced SEO Integration
2. Advanced Migration Tools Joomla Academy's success relies heavily on its mentors' expertise and dedication. We're seeking individuals who can contribute in various ways: - Technical mentors with strong coding skills
- Documentation specialists
- Project management experts
- Community leaders who can guide and support students
Joomla! Academy 2025 Intake
February 1 - February 28: Application period
Students are encouraged to join the Joomla Community on Mattermost and participate in the dedicated student channel.
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Whether you're a potential mentor, student, or sponsor, your participation can help shape the future of Joomla. The Academy represents more than just code contribution—it's about building a sustainable pathway for new developers to join our community and make meaningful contributions to one of the world's leading content management systems. For more information about mentoring opportunities, please join us on Mattermost in the mentors' channel. For sponsorship inquiries, please contact:
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(Look for a complete article in the February Joomla Magazine) |
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The 1st Pizza Bugs and Fun of 2025 is coming in 17 days, woohoo!
Make sure to set a reminder in your calendars!
You can test PRs, help with the documentation, translation, come and learn and share and eat some good pizza even ;).
Check https://pizza-bugs-fun.com/en/where-to-go for a location or virtual session near you.
Let's test, squash some bugs, eat some pizza, and have fun! |
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Dev Corner / Code Deep Dive
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CSS has been around for a long time and it has become very powerful... many CSS rules are well used and known, some are a lot less known or even experimental.
Today we are going to look at @view-transition.
The @view-transition at-rule lets web pages enable seamless visual transitions between documents. Essentially, it allows for smooth animations when navigating between pages of the same origin using only CSS. The easiest way to implement this is by setting the navigation descriptor to auto on the pages where you want the transition effect to occur.
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Standard:Crossfade @view-transition { navigation: auto; }
This feature is not Baseline, it works in Edge and Chrome and Safari for now.
Many operating systems have an option in the accessibility settings to specify a preference for reduced motion. We can use the media query prefers-reduced-motion to see if animations are desired:
@media screen and (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) { @view-transition { navigation: auto; } }
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For those interested, don't forget to check out the great resource:
caniuse.com, for this particular CSS rule: @view-transition.
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