📰 FftF: Re-Engage & Re-Ignite Stream Updates - 13th March 2020
▶️ Programs

Participants: Andrea Gentil, Chris Keen, Davide Messia, Jaz Parkyn, Brain MitchellApologies: Darek Snieg, Guillermo Bravo, Laura Gordon
Detailed information about each of the below proposals can be found here: https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/volunteer-engagement-team/reports/1156-forum-for-the-future-re-engage-re-ignite-stream-re
Proposal 1: Call to Actions on joomla.org homepage
Following conversations with the Marketing teams, the proposal has been re-worked and is now looking to complete some changes on the community section of the current homepage, and to modify the homepage of the community portal.
Proposal 2: Reformat JUG rules to allow Virtual User Groups

Feedback has been received from the JUG organisers and the proposal seems have...

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📰 FftF: Re-Engage & Re-Ignite Stream Updates - 13th March 2020
▶️ Programs

Participants: Andrea Gentil, Chris Keen, Davide Messia, Jaz Parkyn, Brain MitchellApologies: Darek Snieg, Guillermo Bravo, Laura Gordon
Detailed information about each of the below proposals can be found here: https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/volunteer-engagement-team/reports/1156-forum-for-the-future-re-engage-re-ignite-stream-re
Proposal 1: Call to Actions on joomla.org homepage
Following conversations with the Marketing teams, the proposal has been re-worked and is now looking to complete some changes on the community section of the current homepage, and to modify the homepage of the community portal.
Proposal 2: Reformat JUG rules to allow Virtual User Groups

Feedback has been received from the JUG organisers and the proposal seems have...

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📰 FftF: Re-Engage & Re-Ignite Stream Updates - 13th March 2020
▶️ Joomla! Volunteers Portal

Participants: Andrea Gentil, Chris Keen, Davide Messia, Jaz Parkyn, Brain MitchellApologies: Darek Snieg, Guillermo Bravo, Laura Gordon
Detailed information about each of the below proposals can be found here: https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/volunteer-engagement-team/reports/1156-forum-for-the-future-re-engage-re-ignite-stream-re
Proposal 1: Call to Actions on joomla.org homepage
Following conversations with the Marketing teams, the proposal has been re-worked and is now looking to complete some changes on the community section of the current homepage, and to modify the homepage of the community portal.
Proposal 2: Reformat JUG rules to allow Virtual User Groups

Feedback has been received from the JUG organisers and the proposal seems have...

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📰 Shack Error Notify
▶️ Security Tools

Version: 1.0.4
Developer: Joomlashack
License: GPLv2 or later
Type: Paid download
Includes: Plugin
Compatibility: Joomla! 3.0

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Shack Error Notify will rescue you from serious site problems. This plugin will send automatic notifications if anything goes wrong with your Joomla site.

We have used this plugin at Joomlashack for years, and it has saved us on many occasions. It is easy to miss site errors, but Shack Error Notify catches them all! You will get an email describing what went wrong on your site, and showing you where to fix it.

Checking your site for errors

Shack Error Notify automatically checks for errors on your site. Nobody has time to watch their site constantly, but Shack Error Notify does. If anything happens on your site, Shack Error Notify is watching and alerts you immediately.

Helpful email notifications

Shack Error Notify will automatically send you an email when an error is detected on your site. In the email, Shack Error Notify will give you all the details you to locate and fix the error.

Simple configuration options

Shack Error Notify is easy and quick to set up. You can choose multiple email addresses to receive the error notifications, and you can also choose which types of errors you'd like to be notified about.

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📰 JED Team Meeting - March 27th, 2020
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The Joomla! Extensions Directory (JED) team met on March 27th, 2020, at 15hs UTC, via Glip to discuss our progress of current tasks.

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In attendance: Anibal Sanchez, Jaz Parkyn, Carlos Cámara, Hugh Douglas-Smith, Luca Marzo, and Mark Lee.

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Absent: Dénes Székely, Daniel Dubois,Tony Partridge and Troy Hall.

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📰 Shack Error Notify
▶️ Security Tools

Version: 1.0.5
Developer: Joomlashack
License: GPLv2 or later
Type: Paid download
Includes: Plugin
Compatibility: Joomla! 3.0

⬇️ Download
🌐 Demo
❓ Support
📚 Documentation

Shack Error Notify will rescue you from serious site problems. This plugin will send automatic notifications if anything goes wrong with your Joomla site.

We have used this plugin at Joomlashack for years, and it has saved us on many occasions. It is easy to miss site errors, but Shack Error Notify catches them all! You will get an email describing what went wrong on your site, and showing you where to fix it.

Checking your site for errors

Shack Error Notify automatically checks for errors on your site. Nobody has time to watch their site constantly, but Shack Error Notify does. If anything happens on your site, Shack Error Notify is watching and alerts you immediately.

Helpful email notifications

Shack Error Notify will automatically send you an email when an error is detected on your site. In the email, Shack Error Notify will give you all the details you to locate and fix the error.

Simple configuration options

Shack Error Notify is easy and quick to set up. You can choose multiple email addresses to receive the error notifications, and you can also choose which types of errors you'd like to be notified about.

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📰 Github Sponsored Organization Program: support Joomla!
▶️ Community Blog

Ever wished you could support the developers who devote themselves to making Joomla one of the leading Open Source CMS? Now you can! Joomla has joined the GitHub Sponsored Organization Program.
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📰 JMG Preloader
▶️ Landing pages

Version: 1.0.0
Developer: JooMega
License: GPLv2 or later
Type: Paid download
Includes: Plugin
Compatibility: Joomla! 3.0, Joomla! 4alpha

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With this nice preloader plugin for Joomla!, you can display a beautiful loading animation while your website's loading.

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📰 SkatlaJX
▶️ Content Construction

Version: 1.0.0
Developer: Tools JX
License: GPLv2 or later
Type: Paid download
Includes: Component, Plugin
Compatibility: Joomla! 3.0

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SkatlaJX is a package of 2 standalone components, Locations, and Galleries. They can be used individually or in pair to create a powerful ecosystem.

Galleries
A Joomla component enabling you to create a highly customizable gallery of images and videos. The galleries can be attached to articles or locations using one of our many exquisite templates.

Locations
A Joomla component allowing you to create location objects, that are composed out of an arbitrary number of attributes, have a user-defined category, type, image, and a marker. On the frontend, they can be displayed either on a Google map or within a details view.

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📰 ES Youtube Playlist Embed
▶️ Social Media

Version: 1.0
Developer: ExtensionSpot
License: GPLv2 or later
Type: Paid download
Includes: Module
Compatibility: Joomla! 3.0

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ES Youtube Playlist Embed allows you to embed entire Youtube playlists in your Joomla website.

Would you like to post a complete Youtube playlist on your site? With this module you can now do this very simple and fast!

No need to upload videos to the backend of your site to create a playlist and then post it on the site!

With Es Youtube Playlist Embed you can read a playlist directly from Youtube and display it on your site, in any position, even in articles, in a simple, beautiful and effective way.

What does this mean?

A faster way to get your videos displayed on your website
A much lighter solution for those who do not have much hosting space
An easy solution for those who want to display playlists inside articles / or for those who want to display more than one video in an article, in an attractive and user-friendly way
A customized way to keep your clients on your website
Better marketing, lower bounce rates, personal content available directly on your site
Setting up the module is very easy - you just need the playlist code from Youtube. Further, you can set various visual options, dimensions, alignment and you're ready!

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📰 CustomCSS
▶️ Access & Security

Version: 3-4
Developer: Tobias Zulauf
License: GPLv2 or later
Type: Free download
Includes: Plugin
Compatibility: Joomla! 3.0, Joomla! 4alpha

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CustomCSS Plugin

This Joomla plugin lets you load a custom.css / custom.min.css when the template does not support that out of the box.

Sponsoring and Donation

You use this extension in an commercial context and / or want to support me and give something back?

There are two ways to support me right now:
- This extension is part of , write bug fixes, improving features and maintain my extensions.
- You just want to send me an one-time donation? Great you can do this via .

Thanks for your support!

Feature

This plugin checks whether a custom.css (or custom.min.css) file exists at /templates/"templatename"/css or /administrator/templates/"templatename"/css. If present, it will be loaded to the site.
- With a custom.css you can overwrite the template css files.
- This file will not be touched by an update.
- To use the plugin please activate it. Control Pannel --> Extensions --> Plugins --> System - Template custom.css.

Update Server

Please note that my update server only supports the latest version running the latest version of Joomla and atleast PHP 7.0.
Any other plugin version I may have added to the download section don't get updates using the update server.

Issues / Translations

You have found an Issue, you have done a translation or have a question / suggestion regarding the plugin?
or submit a pull request with the proposed changes.

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📰 PrivacyCheckbox
▶️ Custom Fields

Version: 1.0.5
Developer: Tobias Zulauf
License: GPLv2 or later
Type: Free download
Includes: Plugin
Compatibility: Joomla! 3.0, Joomla! 4alpha

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PrivacyCheckbox Plugin

This Joomla plugin lets you create new fields of type 'privacycheckbox' in any extensions where custom fields are supported.

Sponsoring and Donation

You use this extension in an commercial context and / or want to support me and give something back?

There are two ways to support me right now:
- This extension is part of , write bug fixes, improving features and maintain my extensions.
- You just want to send me an one-time donation? Great you can do this via .

Thanks for your support!

Feature

This plugin allows you to creates a single checkbox field in any form that supports custom fields e.g. in the contact form where you can make sure the privacy message is checked. But this also allow any other single checkbox usecase. Over the core plugin this allows to use a `` tag inside of the message to be shown to the user. Any other html tag is going to be removed.

Configuration

Initial setup the plugin with the example for the contact form


- Download the latest version of the plugin: https://github.com/zero-24/plgfieldsprivacycheckbox/releases/latest
- Install & Enable the plugin
- Create a new custom field for the email form of the contact component


- Components -> Contacts -> Fields
- Select the contect Mail from the dropdown
- Create the custom field using New
- Set the desired title for the field
- Set the type to privacycheckbox
- Add your desired text to the Checkbox Note field (You can include links using the `` tag)
- Add your desired text to the Email Text field
- Go to the permission tab and allow Public to Edit Custom Field Value
- Save & Close
- See the Joomla Core Contact Form extended with our consent field


Option descriptions

Checkbox Note

This is the message showed next to the checkbox containing your message about privacy.

Email Text

This is the message included in the email send to the user next to the custom field. Per default it is just checked.

Implement multilanguage

This field support two different ways to be translated into different languages.

Using a language string

For the checkbox note you can add any string you want and override them with the desired text foreach language.

For example for the Checkbox Note text:
- Enter the self defined Language Constant PLG_FIELDS_PRIVACYCHECKBOX_CUSTOM_CONTENT (it works with any string)
- Go to the Language Overrider: Extensions -> Language(s) -> Overrides.
- Select your desired target language
- Create the Language Constant by using New
- The field Language Constant contain the constant we set in the plugin settings
- The field Text contain the override per language.
- Save & Close
- Select the next language and so on.

The plugin read the translation from the overrides and fallback to the en-GB value.

Using the language assignment field

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📰 HttpHeader
▶️ Security Tools

Version: 1.0.12
Developer: Tobias Zulauf
License: GPLv2 or later
Type: Free download
Includes: Plugin
Compatibility: Joomla! 3.0, Joomla! 4alpha

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HttpHeader Plugin

This Joomla Plugin implements an UI Layer for the HTTP Security headers so everyone can set and configure them from the backend.

Sponsoring and Donation

You use this extension in an commercial context and / or want to support me and give something back?
There are two ways to support me right now:
- This extension is part of , write bug fixes, improving features and maintain my extensions.
- You just want to send me an one-time donation? Great you can do this via .

Thanks for your support!

Features

This Joomla Plugin helps you to set the following HTTP Security Headers.
- Strict-Transport-Security
- Content-Security-Policy
- Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only
- X-Frame-Options
- X-XSS-Protection
- X-Content-Type-Options
- Referrer-Policy
- Expect-CT
- Feature-Policy

This plugin also comes with some easy defaults for:
- X-Frame-Options
- X-XSS-Protection
- X-Content-Type-Options
- Referrer-Policy

Configuration

Initial setup the plugin


- Download the latest version of the plugin: https://github.com/zero-24/plgsystemhttpheader/releases/latest
- Install the plugin using Upload & Install
- Enable the plugin form the plugin manager


Now the inital setup is completed and you can start configure the headers.

Default Headers

Please note that by default the following headers und values are set:
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
More Infos: https://scotthelme.co.uk/hardening-your-http-response-headers/#x-frame-options
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
More Infos: https://scotthelme.co.uk/hardening-your-http-response-headers/#x-xss-protection
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
More Infos: https://scotthelme.co.uk/hardening-your-http-response-headers/#x-content-type-options
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
More Infos: https://scotthelme.co.uk/a-new-security-header-referrer-policy/

You can allways choose to disable or change the value for one of those by changing the plugin configuration.

Option descriptions

Force HTTP Header

Using this you can set different values from the default ones and also force headers. The supported headers are:
- Strict-Transport-Security
- Content-Security-Policy
- Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only
- X-Frame-Options
- X-XSS-Protection
- X-Content-Type-Options
- Referrer-Policy
- Expect-CT
- Feature-Policy

Here you can also decide whether the header is applyed only to the frontend and or only the backed or both sites.

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)

This option activates 'Strict Transport Security' and allows the configuration of the value of that header including Include subdomains, Maximum registration time (max-age) and Preload.

HSTS means that your domain can no longer be called without HTTPS. Once added to the preload list, this is not easy to undo. Domains can be removed, but it takes months for users to make a change with a browser update. This option is very important to prevent for recording.

Content Security Policy (CSP)

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📰 Joomla Bug Squad Team Meeting - March 27, 2020
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Date: March 27, 2020

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📰 Digi Showcase - VirtueMart Categories Expansion Pack
▶️ VirtueMart extensions

Version: 1.0.0
Developer: Digigreg
License: GPLv2 or later
Type: Paid download
Includes: Plugin, Extension specific
Compatibility: Joomla! 3.0

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By this plugin you can use VirtueMart categories as data source in the Digi Showcase module.

This plugin can exploit the following data:


- Product name
- Description
- Category
- Price
- Image
- Link


For more informations read Digi Showcase description.

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📰 Joomla partners with Report URI for real time Application Security and Health Monitoring
▶️ General News

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced today its partnership with Report URI, the Application Security and Health Monitoring leader.

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📰 Automated Testing Team - 2019 Report
▶️ March

The last year saw quite some activity in the area of automated tests for Joomla.


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📰 CMS Maintenance Team - 2019 Report
▶️ March

The CMS Maintenance Team is responsible for reviewing all patches submitted to the Joomla! CMS, merging patches into the code base, and ensuring that the high standards of Joomla are maintained at all times.


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📰 CMS Release Team - 2019 Report
▶️ March

The CMS Release Team has continued to test all the Joomla releases.


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📰 Core Translation Team - 2019 Report
▶️ March

The Joomla Core Translation Team continuously strives to provide an up-to-date translation of core Joomla into various languages.


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📰 Google Summer of Code Team - 2019 Review
▶️ March

The Joomla GSoC team participated in GSoC 2019 program for the 12th time and had a total of 4 projects out of which 3 projects were successful and being worked on still for Joomla 4.x versions.


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