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Template clubs like RocketTheme, JoomlArt and YooTheme are pumping out at least one new template per month. JoomlaShack has recently even challenged itself to release 6 templates in as many weeks. Of course let’s not forget about sites like TemplateMonster that manage to launch dozens of new templates per week. Then lastly … Read more

First off I would like to say that I'm fully aware of the fact that Joomla isn't the software equivalent of a magical fairy land. Neither have I spotted any unicorns in the Joomla scene, nor do I recall seeing double rainbows in the source code. Nevertheless, both a lot has changed with regards to Joomla lately and a lot of the … Read more

Starting a couple of months ago, you can now set up custom dashboards in Google Analytics (GA). From experience I know that many people find the amount of available information in Analytics daunting. Therefore I wrote this overview to make sure you can get actionable information from your statistics. Setting up an actionable GA … Read more

Check our special Joomla! 2.5 page for info, articles, FAQ, tweets and more about Joomla! 2.5. December and January are by tradition a time of looking back at what passed and looking ahead at what may come. We did the looking back a couple of weeks ago when we reviewed the '8+1 Reasons Why 2011 Was a Great Year for … Read more

With the upcoming Long Term Support (LTS) release of Joomla! 2.5, more organizations than ever will consider upgrading their current Joomla! 1.0 or Joomla! 1.5 website. We've created this handy flow-chart to help these organizations decide whether or not they should upgrade their website to Joomla! 2.5. Start at the top and … Read more

Check our special Joomla! 2.5 page for info, articles, FAQ, tweets and more about Joomla! 2.5. A couple of days ago, we've posted an article about the new Joomla! 2.5 User Notes feature. This blog will discuss a method to determine whether features like that (which are likely to be used by a small percentage of Joomla! … Read more

Check our special Joomla! 2.5 info page for articles, tweets, FAQ and more about Joomla! 2.5. The upcoming Joomla! 2.5 release has quite a few new features. For example you could check out most new features visually or view screenshots of the Joomla! 2.5 Administrator. One of the totally new features in Joomla! 2.5 is … Read more

Check our special Joomla! 2.5 hub for info, articles, FAQ, tweets and more about Joomla! 2.5. The last couple of days we're seeing quite a lot of search traffic for the search phrase 'joomla 2.5 screenshots'. It appear that many people are interested in seeing how the administrator looks in Joomla! 2.5. Image credits: … Read more

Check our special Joomla! 2.5 info page for articles, tweets, FAQ and more about Joomla! 2.5. As most of you will know right now, Joomla! 2.5 beta 1 was released earlier this week. The post about the release mentions 20+ new features and patched, most of which were covered in our earlier post on the proposed new features … Read more

The holiday season is around the corner! To celebrate this event, we've created a special promotion. No need to dress up like Santa or hang your sock near the fireplace, everyone is in on the holiday promotion for this season! The promotion is valid for all our Joomla! templates and will be applied immediately to your … Read more

The year 2011 has proven to be a great and forward-moving year for the Joomla! project. Some of the most prominent changes such as the release of Joomla! 1.6 / 1.7 and the great success of J & Beyond 2011 are outlined in this post. 1. Time-based Release Schedule Introduced For Joomla! 1.0 and Joomla! 1.5 a feature-based … Read more

Check our special Joomla! 2.5 page for info, articles, FAQ, tweets and more about Joomla! 2.5. Two days ago, Jean-Marie Simonet from the Production Leadership Team (PLT) published a short article on Joomla.org titled 'Last Steps to Joomla 2.5!'. In this post Jean-Marie explained that version 11.3 of the Platform was merged … Read more

Recently I've discovered what caused the amount of visitors to a certain website to drop sharply and for an extended amount of time. I'd noticed myself that the site had started to run slower recently and was loading unpredictably, which are normally bad signs on itself. Then people started to report (amongst other strange … Read more

Executive summary We've rebranded our company from FinishJoomla to ThemePartner. The motivations for this change were that the old name was often causing confusion and was incompatible with our desire to offer themes for other platforms as well (such as Wordpress, Drupal or Magento) in the future. The company is still ran by … Read more

Halloween is coming this weekend! To celebrate this event, we've created a special promotion. No need to trick-or-treat or wear a special costume, everyone is in on this spooky good promotion for this weekend! Image credits: (^^RaviN^^) The promotion is valid for all our Joomla! business templates and will be applied … Read more