Joomla

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Joomla is a content management system that can be IndieWebified.

How to

See Astrid's post about how to indiewebify a Joomla site:

• 2022-11-12 Astrid Günther: IndieWeb (archived)

Includes setting up features like:

• Web Sign-in
• h-card
• h-entry
• u-in-reply-to
• receiving webmentions and pingbacks via webmention.io

IndieWeb Examples

None known at this time.

Criticism

• I have worked with several Joomla installations over the years (all in 1.x and 1.5.x versions) and found it to be a pain in the neck. The terminology and structure of the code in its MVC is confusing and relatively simple tasks have taken longer than necessary. I have dealt with several security problems and hacked installations — including a site that was being used as part of a botnet. Perhaps the core code is no less secure than other CMS (bugs happen), but I feel like there's a disproportionate amount of headaches for Joomla, perhaps because it encourages poor server practices. I won't pretend to be unbiased, here. I loathe Joomla and strongly recommend not using it. gRegor Morrill

See Also

• CMS
• friendly