Catering for everyone from beginners and hobbyists, to implementers and developers, Australian Joomla User Groups have been delivering informative and educational sessions on dozens of Joomla topics since 2008. Our recent switch to online meetings due to COVID-19 has expanded the reach of presenters and enabled a more diverse audience, with visitors now joining each month from around the globe.

Our main monthly AVJUG is on the 3rd Tuesday each month at 6pm AEST (UTC 0800) and announced via  our JoomlaAU social media, and in the Joomla Australia Newsletter.

If you would like to suggest topics or volunteer to present, joining the JoomlaAU Meetup and send us a message. You can watch previous session replays below, as well as watch for upcoming events when they're announced.

Visit Joomla Australia for more information on our next events.

This month, our last JUGL of the year, sees us going out with a bang.

We host Marc Dechèvre (@woluweb) presenting his talk One Custom Field to rule them all: Build anything (like a carousel) with only 1 Custom Field

Joomla 3 came with an interesting Repeatable Custom Field (CF)  but it was rather limited as only simple fields like Text or Integers were allowed. #Joomla4 has completely revamped the concept of Custom Field of type "Repeatable", which is now called Custom Field of type "Subform". Now you can select any type of Custom Field within your "Subform", ie any native CF but also any 3rd party CF. This means for instance that you can even use videos (YouTube, Vimeo, ...), maps, related articles etc.  … Mind blown!

Then we have Dimitris Grammatiko (@dgrammatiko) presenting his talk Sweet child o'mine: a deep dive into child templates

This new feature for Joomla4.1 will allow people to override templates without the need to either clone the template or override core files.  This will mean they can take advantage of template updates but still make their own updates without issue.  This is particularly useful when #Cassiopeia gets such high Google Lighthouse scores out of the box, but you may like an extra module position for example.  

Schedule:

The evening will start at 19:00 UTC. That's 19:00 GMT for those in the UK.

Schedule:

The room will open at 19:00 UTC/GMT

19:00 - Introductions and chit-chat
19:10 - Marc Dechèvre - One custom field to rule them all
19:50 - Questions
20:00 - Dimitris Grammatiko - Sweet child O'mine
20:40 - Questions
20:50 - Phil Walton on Joomla News/Sponsors/Info
21:00 - Christmas Party!

Schedule times are in UTC/GMT.

Registration:
https://www.joomlalondon.co.uk/jugl

Alternatively, ping us on Twitter @joomlalondon

Also, you are welcome to join the Joomla community on Glip here:https://glip.com/invite/0fc99361cb9f5v then message Philip Walton from the search bar to get meeting details.

Debut of the new JoomlaDayChicago.com website in Joomla! 4 with highlights from update from 3.x to 4.x

• 5:00 PM Bring Your Questions - Got Joomla Questions?  Ask the group
• 5:30 PM Main Presentations
• 6:15 PM Q&A - ask the presenter