20+ blogs about Joomla you should subscribe to
Before you start reading, this is a list of helpful blogs about Joomla, which means these blogs have more Joomla tips, tricks, tutorials etc than self-promotion of own products (IMHO). Fine line maybe, but an important one in this case.
Being fairly new to Joomla I’m constantly searching for online places to learn more and stay up-to-date. I get most of “what’s hot or not” via Twitter, but my favorite source of information and inspiration is Google reader.
I subscribed to quite a few good Joomla related rss feeds over the past year, but something was bothering me…surely this couldn’t be all active blogs about Joomla? Many of the blogs in my reader hadn’t been updated for donkey years, like nothing was happening in the Joomla sphere…or nobody blogged about it.
Update your RSS feed
After a bit of investigation, it turned out many of them ARE still active but changed the feed url without redirecting or notifying subscribers – with a loss of subscribers as a result. How could this have been avoided?
- Redirect your old feed url to the new and keep your subscribers updated.
- For long-term flexibility, use FeedBurner and make sure it’s the active feed on your site.
Blogs ABOUT Joomla!
After searching the web, receiving ideas from the Twittersphere plus going through the over 75 sources big Joomlaworks Joomla! news, my hunt for helpful blogs about Joomla (= blogs with more Joomla tips & tricks than self-promotion) is over for now.
Did I not include your favorite blog about Joomla?
Please write a comment below and I’ll add it in the follow-up blog post (tip: use the CommentLuv feature to automatically pull in the latest post from their/your blog).
OFFICIAL JOOMLA.ORG
Read the Joomla leadership blog
Read the Joomla community blog
Follow @joomla on Twitter
JOOMLA EVENT ORGANIZERS
CMS Expo
Fantastic event organized by John and Linda Coonen! CMS Expo brings everybody involved in content management together and it’s growing bigger for each time.
Read CMS Expo blog | Follow @cmsexpo
JOOMLA TIPS & TRIX
Joomlablogger
Tips, tutorials and news for all you Joomla addicts out there. Kristoffer blogs about Joomla and all things related to running a successful website based on it.
Read Joomlablogger’s blog | Follow @joomlablogger
Joomla Podcast
News, tips and tutorials, 100% focused on Joomla. You can subscribe to Mike Brogan’s podcasts and blog posts via iTunes or rss.
Read The Joomla Podcast blog | Follow @joomlapodcast
WriteNowDesign
Pat Fortino specializes in Joomla Website Design and X-Cart ecommerce websites. His blog has a really good section with Joomla tips!
Read WriteNowWeb’s blog
Joomla Training
This team provides real-life Joomla training sessions and you get some very useful knowledge by reading their blog and registering for their newsletter where you receive one step-by-step Joomla tutorial per week.
Read Joomla training blog | Follow @joomlatraining
Alledia
SEO tips, training classes and SEO optimized Joomla templates. Steve is providing really useful knowledge around Joomla SEO. He is also involved in Joomla Training (see above).
Read Alledia’s blog | Follow @alledia
The Best of Joomla
Cyrus provides useful information, helpful articles, new content and unique resources for the Joomla! professional. This site is closely connected to the Linkedin Joomla! Professional Users Group.
Read The best of Joomla’s blog | Follow @thebestofjoomla
PERSONAL BLOGS
Joe Sonne – JoeJoomla
From average Joes to webmaster superheros. Joe, the Joomla superman, is a professional presenter, trainer and public speaker and his blog is all about Joomla.
Read JoeJoomla’s blog | Follow @JoeJoomla
Ahmad Alfy – Alfy Studio
Ahmad Alfy is running AlfyStudio.com on his spare time and he’s starting to regularly publish tips about Joomla! development and templating.
Read Alfy’s blog | Follow @ahmadalfy
Joe LeBlanc – Design vs. Develop
Joe says he argues in code and I believe him. He works with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery & Joomla. Checkout his Joomla tutorials & podcasts (see his blog’s about page).
Read Joe’s blog | Follow @jlleblanc
Brian Teeman – agree or disagree
Joomla co-founder and quite an opinionated blogger (blog tagline: “agree or disagree… i don’t care”). Brian gives you a blog with both interesting and thought-provoking reading.
Read Brian’s blog | Follow @brianteeman
Jen Kramer – Joomla4Web
Jen Kramer is the author of Joomla! Creating and Editing Custom Templates and Joomla! Advanced CSS. Her blog gives you easy-to-understand tips, trix and news.
Read Joomla4Web’s blog | Follow @jen4web
Barrie North – Compass Designs
Barrie North is the author of the book The Joomla Book – A User’s Guide to Joomla 1.5. On his blog you can read about Joomla templates, tutorials, news and tips.
Read Compass Design’s blog | Follow @compassdesign
TEMPLATES/EXTENSIONS PROVIDERS
JoomlaBamboo
Anthony from JoomlaBamboo creates beautiful, minimal and clean Joomla templates. On the (soon to be more active) blog you will find his Joomla related tutorials and interviews.
Read JoomlaBamboos’ blog | Follow @joomlabamboo
Sakic
Joomla extensions developer and former member of the Joomla core dev team. Emir blogs about best practices using Joomla, programming for Joomla plus general web development hints.
Read Emir Sakic’s blog | Follow @sakicnet
iJoomla
Merav and her team focus on usability and develop powerful extensions for SEO, RSS, news, ads and much more. Read their blog for reviews, Joomla tips and more.
Read iJoomla’s blog | Follow @iJoomla
JoomlaTools
This is the team behind Nooku and DOCman. They are firm believers in Open Source and specialize in training, consulting and development for Joomla.
Read JoomlaTools’ blog | Follow @joomlatools
Joomla Bear
This big Joomla bear has a friendly attitude, a good blog with videos and informative posts about Joomla tips & tricks plus an interesting Twitter feed.
Read JoomlaBear’s blog | Follow @JoomlaBear
OPEN SOURCE
Open Source Network & Open Source Support Desk
These two blogs are run by the same team.
On the Open Source Network blog you find blog posts about Joomla, Magento and more.
Read the Open Source Network blog
Follow @osNetwork
Open Source Support Desk provides support for Joomla and blogs mainly about Joomla.
Read the Open Source Support Desk blog
Follow @osSupportDesk
JOOMLA PROFESSIONALS
Zuno Studios
Jon, Nick and Maribel are a fantasticly friendly and clued up team. Check out their blog and follow on Twitter for tips about Joomla, ecommerce, entrepreneurship and more.
Read Zuno’ blog | Follow @zuno
jfoobar
The team behind this blog are 8 well-known Joomla professionals writing about anything related to content management systems and Open Source.
Read the jfoobar blog | Follow @jfoobar
Did I not include your favorite blog about Joomla?
Please write a comment below and I’ll add it in the follow-up blog post (tip: use the CommentLuv feature to automatically pull in the latest post from their/your blog).
Tags: blogging, Joomla, Online Presence, open source
Great list! I felt left out so I wanted to mention that we’ve started Joomla/Wed Dev tutorials and Joomla software reviews on our blog ;) http://www.joomlapraise.com/blog/
Kyle Ledbetter´s last blog ..AdminPraise Lite 0.9.3 Released!
Wohoo! That’s really great Kyle! I see you started on the 8th of October so it make sense that I overlooked your blog, since the last week I’ve only gone through the shortlist that came out of the massive list of blogs I had originally.
I might have been a bit heavy-handed on the scissors sometimes (cutting out blogs from the list above), but I’ll let somebody else write a blog post with a list of ALL Joomla blogs out there. :D
Thanks for including the Zuno blog!
Actually, it was Maribel’s post about ecommerce etc that made me decide to subscribe to your blog. :) (http://zunostudios.com/blogs/Are-Social-Communities-Hurting-eCommerce-.html) Keep up the good work!
She’s really the only reason to visit our site ;)
Thanks for the list. I’ve got them all in Google Reader now in a Joomla! folder.
Thanks Dusty, I do the same. Works like a charm. I was considering creating an OMPL file for everybody to download and import in their favorite rss reader, but somehow ended up not doing that. If anybody else would like to do it I’d be happy to add it to this blog post :)
@Tess – i figured, thanks! it’s a great list, added a couple i missed before to my reader as well
Tess, this is an excellent resource list. I am following new RSS feeds because of it.
I hope that we are considered in the future at s-go.net/blog/ We have been building/hosting and supporting Mambo/Joomla sites for 5 years. We write about Joomla and SEO with the potential client in mind. There is great stuff for developers as well. Thank you.
Steve Gorney´s last blog ..Joomla SEO – Six Great Steps
Hi Steve,
I really don’t understand how I could NOT include your blog on this list! It’s going up on the list tomorrow, for sure. You have a really useful blog with SEO tips and much more around Joomla. Thanks for letting me know – I really appreciate it!
Cheers,
Tess :)
Been waiting for this list for a while glad to see it finally happen. Not sure how you could possibly say I am “opinionated” ;)
Brian Teeman´s last blog ..Joomla Hidden Secrets – the movie
LOL! Yeah, I don’t know where I got that from… :D It’s a huge part of what I love about your blog, you don’t seem to hold back and at the same time you’ve done your research. Hats off to you Mr Teeman.
What a great resource page Tess! It looks like you identified all the really great Joomla! bloggers and I am very honoured to be listed on a page amongst them.
JoeJoomla´s last blog ..This is how to launch a Joomla! User Group!
You deserve it! Thanks for blogging good stuff!
I know I’ve most likely missed a few other great blogs ( like http://www.joomlapraise.com/blog/ & http://www.s-go.net/index.php/s-go-blog ) so I’ve decided to keep on updating this blog post with what’s being recommended in the comments, which means this page will change as time goes by.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Tess
Thanks for mentioning my small blog :)
Ahmad Alfy´s last undefined ..If you register your site for free at
It was really cool finding a blog (yours) that I hadn’t seen before! I saw you started blogging about Joomla and I hope you keep up the good work. :)
As previously mentioned, this list will grow based on feedback and new discoveries so let me know if you find a hidden gem somewhere in the Joomla blogosphere and I’ll definitely check it out.
Thanks for including us in your list Tess. I’m going to blog about this right now and spread the word ;-)
Thank you for writing about us! Much appreciated. :)
I see the word is spreading on Twitter as well and I really hope that everybody on this list see the number of their rss subscribers increase.
Cheers,
Tess
Hi Tess. Would be grateful if you consider http://www.theartofjoomla.com/ worthy to add to the list. Thanks in advance.
ehrm, funny thing is that I just discovered that I already have that page open in my browser, but somehow missed to include it in the list. Of course The Art of Joomla should go on this list – it’s a very good resource. I’ll update the list in one go this week (have a few more that should be included). Thanks for pointing it out! :)
Tess´s last blog ..Morph, Configurator & Vanilla updated to version 1.00RC4
:) S’ok. Thanks. Just wish I had more time to blog more. Great list – I’d missed a few of these. Might also be worth adding http://community.joomla.org/connect.html as well.
Andrew Eddie´s last blog ..Introducing the new permissions in Joomla 1.6
The Art Of Joomla! One of the best for sure!
JoeJoomla´s last blog ..This is how to launch a Joomla! User Group!
After reading this usefull article how to use twitter. I even see some sens in twittering. Thx a lot.
Thanks so much for the mention, Tess!!! I am sorry I have not posted much lately, but the book is almost done… then I’ll be back to it!
Jen
Also checkout http://interactiveonline.com/blog
Thanks for the very helpful list.
This is a very helpful list! Thanks.
I blog about Joomla! development topics at http://www.nodwell.net/site/in-dev. These are things I’ve discovered along the way as I work with Joomla! sites and particularly the source. I’m more comfortable with the php and mysql than the graphics, but I’ve turned to template making in my spare time.
Jennifer Nodwell´s last blog ..Four New and Free Templates
Nice, but what about blogs in another language for eg. blog.elimu.pl – about joomla! and some drupal.
Paul´s last blog ..Grudniowe szablony cz.2 (Joomla!)
Hello All
I am also created a blog in joomla , as clients never let me do my work.So i will too place my link for joomla blog here soon.
This is not a blog but a solid CMS website in joomla.You will not believe If i say that its is one of default template in joomla.
I customized it to full extend.
Thanks
Manonit
Hi, this is an excellent resource thanks for creating! Especially for those starting out reading blogs about Joomla!
Thanks again,
Emily
@FreestyleJoomla
Emily Clarke @FreestyleJoomla´s last blog ..Home
Hi thanks for the great info. This is very useful articles. Check out also Joomla Template.
bads928´s last blog ..
Would be nice if you’d consider including torkiljohnsen.com in your list. I guess it’s a tips & tricks blog, or a personal one perhaps.
Thanks in advance :)
Torkil
Torkil Johnsen´s last blog ..Using MySQL Workbench to manage your Joomla component’s db schema
That would be a shameless self advertise..just kidding :P, you got a nice blog though might be helpful to Joomla community :)