Joomla News for 2020-08-18

• Joomlashack shared How to Install a Joomla Template Manually with Joomla's Discover core feature in their recent blog article.
• Joomlashack also shared that Joomla 4 Has Customizable HTML Email Templates
• TechJoomla shared Web Development Trends to Look Forward to in 2020 and tips for Joomla web designers, focusing on top web development trends of 2020.
• TechJoomla has also released Quick2Cart version 2.9.19 that brings promotions to specific Joomla User Groups
• TechJoomla also released an update to their LMS system Shika 1.3.33
• The Joomla project has recently partnered with Elastic Email for Transactional and Marketing mail sending
• The Joomla board is looking for more volunteers to fill open positions
• Group 1 Elections Nominees are now listed with their individual manifestos so that you can see who may be leading various areas of Joomla. Elections will be held throughout August.
• MySites.guru has surpassed 64,000 connected sites - providing you with assurance that your sites are following best practices, have backups, are monitored, and a host of other functions. You can even test it out for your first month free.

In the latest Joomla Magazine

• Newsletters and GDPR - How to get your newsletters compliant
• Getting extensions ready for Joomla 4
• Joomla 4 and Accessibility: give back the web to everyone
• Teaching Joomla to teens in New Jersey - COVID-19 "Joomla style"
• 10 Things to Know about Extending and Connecting Joomla - reviewing Joomla's benefits of being a system that is easy to extend
• My experience with the Beta of Joomla! 4 - by Patrick Jackson
  
  
• Your first project proposal? A guide on things to consider when writing a proposal as a Joomla freelancer.
• Joomla 4: The new Media Manager
• Installing Joomla! has never been so easy and so fast - taking a look at the Fast & Easy Installation process in Joomla 4
• In Meet a Joomler this month you can meet Alison Meeks from the Social Media team
• In this month's case study - How the Joomla Community can help a web project
• In Community Openings you can browse a list of key openings where you can get more involved with Joomla!
• 10 Reasons: Joomla is Easy For Everyone - gives you a list of quick reasons that Joomla is a system for everyone

Tips and tricks

• JoomlaBeginner shared How to Optimize Joomla Articles for Better SEO that will help you learn how to optimize Joomla articles to rank better on SERP without using any third party extension.

Code Update

• The current version of Joomla is 3.9.20 - this update fixed 6 low- to moderate-priority security fixes and a number of bug fixes and improvements
• Joomla 4 Beta 3 has been released, along with Joomla 3.10 Alpha 1

New Extensions

• Sticky Sidebar - will help you easily make your website sidebars sticky and permanently visible when the visitors scroll up and down.
• Raspberry Pi Lab - is a Joomla administration component providing a GUI to some settings and management of a Raspberry Pi server
• Mx Pricing Table - allows you to easily create your own pricing table, giving you a responsive layout with up to 6 price columns per row.

Events

• August 26, 2020 - JUGNJ - Virtual Meeting - TOPIC: Using Joomla 4 Custom Fields to synchronize data from other sources
• October 17, 2020 - Pizza, Bugs, and Fun - ONLINE event