The JCM Team is proud to present you the October Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine.

This month’s edition features:

• an article about the Joomla 4.2 Multi-Factor Authentication by Philip Walton
• an article presenting features of Joomla 4.2: Keyboard shortcuts, User-defined columns by Philip Walton.
• a tutorial on how to add PDF files to your articles by Anja de Crom.
• a tutorial on how to create a reading progress bar for your articles by Michael Russell.
• a tutorial on how to migrate to Google Analytics 4 from Philip Walton and Louise Hawkins.
• an article presenting the testing tools used by Joomla written by Hannes Papenberg.
• a recap about the recent JoomlaDay DACH from Florian Bauer.
• an article about the importance to logout from a website by Michael Russell.
• the plan of quarterly goals for the Production Department by Philip Walton.
• the first article of a series on how to use Joomla for your Business by Daniel Dubois.
• an interview to Stefanie Thielmann by Hans van der Meer, as part of the Meet a Joomler series.

This release wouldn't have been possible without the work of the Community Magazine Team, all the authors and all the people who allowed us to interview them.

Thanks to all those who participated.

You probably know how to place images, maybe even videos in your Joomla articles. But did you know you can add PDFs that your visitors can read without having to open or download them first? It's super easy! And the good part: you don't even have to install an extension to do it. The functionality is built right into the Joomla 4 core. Here's how you do it.

Your first step is to create an article, or open the article that will have the PDF in it. Determine where you want it to show and put your cursor there.

In the editor (I use the built-in editor, TinyMCE), on the left above the content area, there's a nice button called CMS Content. If you click it, you see a list of things you can add. Pick Media.

The Media pop-up opens. Click the Upload button in the top left corner to upload a file from your computer.

In my previous article: “As Googles Universal Analytics comes to a close, what alternatives if any do you need?” we explored Google Analytics' origin story. Took a look at whether Analytics is even right for all sites, and the impact just adding Analytics defacto can have.

And we touched on one of the alternatives out there.

Join me now in a deep dive into the setup of GA4

So reading the last article didn't persuade you otherwise? Then https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/ is the place for you to start the dive into GA4.

Joomla did it for the 14th time! We are proud to announce that our application as a mentoring organisation for the 2022 Google Summer of Code™ program (GSoC) has been accepted with our individual entry here!

With a lot of things changed for this year's Google Summer of Code, Joomla is excited to welcome a bigger audience than ever before. This year, contributors are not confined to college students, the eligibility criteria have been opened right up.

We have also been onboarding External Mentors for the first time ever. Joomla can learn from their different skills and mindset, their perspective from outside the organisation.

Joomla would like to thank all our mentors who have pledged to give their time and expertise to help make this GSoC the best ever.

Did you ever feel like you’re the only Joomla user in the village, and wish you could meet Joomlers in your neighborhood? You might join a Joomla User Group, and if there isn’t one where you live, create one. Joomla has people who can help you find, run or create a Joomla User Group. They’re called - you could have guessed it - the Joomla User Groups Team, and they’re here for you. This month the JCM has the pleasure to meet four of them!

What is the team’s main goal?

Todd Woodward: We want to encourage and support existing Joomla User Groups, and foster the creation of new JUGs.  

Ahmad Moussa: We want to encourage and support all existing and new local Joomla User Groups that are being organized by the community to meet Joomla users in real life to share Joomla knowledge. We are also planning to create and support a new directory for online Joomla Users Groups which can help Joomlers to meet online from anywhere and anytime without any constraints as many organizers and Joomlers couldn’t attend face to face or in-person meetings due to Covid-19 pandemic.

What is your place in Joomla’s ecosphere?

Todd: I can't speak for the rest of the team, but the JUGs are the grassroots. They are where people can meetup, learn from others about Joomla, and brainstorm possible ways to create Joomla sites. We want to foster that active participation and, hopefully, make members of these JUGs future team members and project volunteers.