The document outlines the evolution and features of Joomla 4 as a successor to Joomla 3, emphasizing planning, development goals, and improvements in user experience and accessibility. Key enhancements include a more user-friendly admin interface, an improved media manager, and the introduction of workflows for content publishing. Additionally, the document discusses the ongoing support for Joomla 3.10 and the future direction of Joomla 4.x towards more advanced capabilities and compliance with accessibility standards.

1. WHYYOU SHOULD BE
PLANNINGTO USE
JOOMLA 4 IN 2020

2. ABOUT ME
• Consultant Engineer for Automation Logic
• Joomla ProductionTeam/PLT November 2014 - March 2019
• Release Lead for Joomla 3.4
• Deputy Release Lead for Joomla 3.5 and 3.6
• Release Lead for Joomla 3.10 and 4.0
• Joomla Contributor since 2012
• Masters in Physics specialising in particle detectors

3. HOWTO FIND ME
E-mail Address
Glip
GitHub
george.wilson@community.joomla.org
George Wilson
wilsonge

4. STATE OF JOOMLA 3
• Top Class Multilingual System
• Support for Content, Categories,Tags,Versioning
• Hundreds of Configuration Options
• High Quality Code Base
• Thousands of Bonus Extensions in a Single Marketplace
• Responsive Backend Interface

5. IN 2014 WE CAME UP WITH
A DEVELOPMENT PLAN
• SemanticVersioning
• Major, Minor, Patch releases
• Releases Monthly’ish but always on aTuesday
• Release Candidates for all releases so people can test a week in advanced!
• Follow https://twitter.com/joomladeveloper for tweets!
• Latest Roadmap can always be found at:
https://developer.joomla.org/roadmap.html
• Full development Plan:
https://developer.joomla.org/development-strategy.html

6. WHO ARE JOOMLA’S STAKEHOLDERS?
https://medium.com/@parthlawate/building-a-sustainable-ecosystem-for-joomla-738e6338ac4d

7. JOOMLA GOALS
• We are building a platform to make extensions
easy to build in a secure way
• These extensions should be customisable,
extensible and integrate cleanly
• Site Administrators should be able to add
content with ease and without needing to pay
for large amounts of custom training

9. IN 2015 PEOPLE STARTING
TALKING ABOUT JOOMLA 4
• Nic Dionysopoulos wrote a
series of Blog posts thinking
about Joomla 4 containing
feature ideas, a vision and a
marketing audience
• JAB 2015 - A group of us
sat down during Make It
Happen to discuss the
vision

10. THEVISION

11. SO JOOMLA 4?
• Eliminate Deprecated
Code
• Make the Admin Interface
more user friendly and
Accessible (Minimum Level
AA)
• Improve SEO (latest
standards)
• Standardise on Joomla
Framework Packages
(better testability)
• Upgrade from
Bootstrap 2 to 4
• Webservices

12. SO WHERE ARE WE NOW
IN 2019?

13. JOOMLA IS EASIERTO INSTALL
• There were too many options
• Site Integrators now have a simple experience to
install Joomla in 3 simple steps
• Joomla really can be installed on a server in under
2 minutes

14. NEW INSTALLER

15. NEW BACKENDTEMPLATE
Pull Request for Feedback: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/25570
Installable Packages at: https://developer.joomla.org/backend-template

16. JOOMLA 4 IS MORE
SUPPORTIVE
• The JSST gets multiple
emails a week about people
who can’t log into their sites
or can’t reset their
password

17. JOOMLA’S MORE WELCOMING
Customisable
Module

18. JOOMLA 4 IS SIMPLERTO USE
FOR CONTENT CREATORS
• There’s now a system
dashboard
• This provides separation
between Administration of
Joomla and producing content
in Joomla (the main menu)
• In a glance see what requires
action
• Based more around actions
than components

19. JOOMLA 4 IS SIMPLERTO USE
FOR CONTENT CREATORS

21. CREATE A MENU ITEM FROM AN
ARTICLE

22. MEDIA MANAGER IS EASIER
TO USE
• Many people installed other Joomla extensions
(e.g. JCE) just to be able to override the media
manager
• With Joomla 4 this changes.We have rebuilt it
from the ground up

23. CLEANER INTERFACE

24. MEDIA MANAGER
• Ability to rename files
• Ability to do basic image
manipulation in the interface
(crop, resize, rotate)
• Consistent view when
inserting into an article
• Plugin based so you can
now also display content
from the cloud (e.g. On a
cloud based CDN)

25. PREVIEWYOUR IMAGE
DIRECTLY INTHE ARTICLEVIEW

26. JOOMLA UNDERSTANDS PUBLISHING
IS MORETHAN CLICKING A BUTTON
• In larger teams often there is an approvals process for
new content
• Joomla has introduced the concept of workflows to
help enforce this
• Even useful in startups when the person in charge of
marketing wants to review your blog posts before
publishing them to the world

27. STATUS: DRAFT
Implicitly unpublished

29. LESS OPTIONS
More things native to the browser

30. CSS GRID FOR LAYOUTS

31. EXAMPLE - CATEGORY BLOG
Adding
classes to
one div to
change from
layered, to
column to
masonry
layouts

32. • Government and increasingly corporate
standard
• Joomla 4 will be accessible to WCAG
2.1 AA standard
• Full statement of intent at https://
www.joomla.org/accessibility-
statement.html
• Reports generated for both backend
and frontend
• https://github.com/joomla/accessibility
MAKING JOOMLA AVAILABLE
TO EVERYONE - A11Y

33. MAKING JOOMLA AVAILABLE
TO EVERYONE - WEB SERVICES
• The internet of things is about
making your content accessible
to machines! (e.g.Alexa for a
site FAQ)
• Useful for mobile applications
• Custom User Interfaces
• Allowing other websites to
access your content (e.g. a
Event Site allowing people to
access their calendar)

34. MAKING JOOMLA AVAILABLE
TO EVERYONE - WEB SERVICES
• Joomla 4 now has an API
• Initially just for limited data from
com_content but we’ve been
working on more extensions as
part of this years GSOC project
which will be merged soon.Will
be available for all extensions by
the time of the stable release
• You can find more information at
https://joomla-projects.github.io/
gsoc19_webservices/

35. MAKING JOOMLA AVAILABLE
TO EVERYONE - WEB SERVICES
• Core APIs are about producing
all data
• Allows building apps for
administration of the website
• Allow components to call
each other inside the site
• Plugin driven concept means it’s
easy to add your own custom
APIs with more limited data for
3rd party services to use

36. IMPROVED CLI INTERFACE
Including old CLI commands and new ones such as user
management

37. CHANGE LOG + DOWNLOAD
KEYS FOR EXTENSIONS
• Allows you to understand
what’s being updated within
an extension
• Allows easier control of
your extension keys

38. THINGS WE’RE FINALISING FOR
MERGING

39. METADATA WITH
SCHEMA.ORG
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/25117
• Reduces complexity of HTML
• Allows for easier validation of your site
• Plugin driven to allow you to make context specific

40. MAILTEMPLATES
• Allows customising of the Emails your site sends
• In HTML or plaintext depending on user choice
• Aim to inspire a new generation of email extensions
given the recent issues with MailChimp pricing

41. MAILTEMPLATES
• Tags to allow data relevant to the email
• Here for example ‘sitename’ is replaced with the
website name
• Nested templates can be created in the backend

42. HOW PAINFUL WILLTHE MIGRATION
BE?

43. HOW PAINFUL WILLTHE
MIGRATION BE? (SITE OWNERS)
• The hardest pain point will be the migration from Bootstrap 2 to
Bootstrap 4
• It depends on what’s going on in your template!
• You’re probably still going to need to update your extensions to latest
versions (most extensions use some deprecated code somewhere)
• We have made visualising this easy in Joomla Update
• Joomla 3.9 will still be supported for 2 years after Joomla 4 comes out
- you have time to plan your migration!

44. JOOMLA UPDATE IN 3.10
Visualising the Upgrade to J4

45. HOW PAINFUL WILLTHE
MIGRATION BE? (DEVELOPERS)
• The hardest pain point will be the migration from
Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 4
• You’ll have to have two views for your applications to
support Joomla 3 and 4
• Start checking your code from an early point (many code
changes required will work out the box in Joomla 3.x)
• Use our docs! https://docs.joomla.org/
Potential_backward_compatibility_issues_in_Joomla_4/en

46. STATE OF JOOMLA 4.0
• APIs to help manage content
• Mail templates to make consistent emails
• Should be the 1st major CMS to be AA accessible
• Workflows to help with publishing content
• Modern Media Manager
• Cleaner Backend focussed on letting you create content
• Still contains everything that made Joomla 3 so powerful

47. LOOKING BEYOND JOOMLA 4.0
• This year Production started looking beyond the Joomla 4.0 release
• Things we’re working on for the 4.x series
• Building a drag and drop page-builder style application for
templates (allowing custom/dynamic module positions to be
created)
• Working in a cross-CMS group on a auto-update feature
• Guidelines for Joomla extensions to be WCAG 2.1 AA compliant

48. QUESTIONS