Perspectives

Perspectives is a collection of thoughtful articles on Joomla, open-source software, extension development, and the ideas shaping the future of the ecosystem. It is a place for practical experience, informed opinion, lessons learned, and conversations about how we can build better software, strengthen the Joomla community, and help Joomla remain a capable and relevant platform for the years ahead.

Articles
Title	Published Date	Author
Closing the Gaps: Making Joomla Harder to Ignore - Part 2: Finding the Gaps In Part 1, I argued that Joomla! can have a strong Core and still be harder to choose when ordinary project requirements are not covered well enough by the ecosystem around it. That leads to the next question: if the gaps matter, how do we actually find them?	September 15, 2026	Jason Crimmel
Closing the Gaps: Making Joomla Harder to Ignore - Part 1: The Problem This is the first article in a developing series about a question that has followed me through more than twenty years of using Joomla: what makes a platform genuinely useful in the real world? Joomla Core matters enormously, but people rarely choose a CMS because of Core alone. They choose it becaus	September 7, 2026	Jason Crimmel