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Joomla Unpacked: Roadmap, Strategy & What's Actually Happening
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- Speaker: Sigrid Gramlinger
Practical AI for Joomla Developers: Beyond the Hype and the Panic
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- Speaker: Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Build an event system using Workflows and Latest News Enhanced - A Case Study
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- Speaker: Laura Gordon
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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- Speaker: Nicolas Cleverie
HikaShop is an open source e-commerce solution that has been developed exclusively for Joomla for over 15 years. Over the years, porting it to CMS platforms was considered many times but always deemed too large an undertaking for a small team like us. Different APIs, different templating systems, different plugin architectures, different database patterns. It would have required starting from scratch.
Then, AI-assisted coding tools changed the equation. Instead of rewriting HikaShop, we used AI to build a "bridge layer" that emulates Joomla's API (DatabaseQuery, HTML, Route, Session...) on the target platform, allowing HikaShop's existing codebase to run with minimal changes. In five weeks and 65+ commits, we went from "impossible" to a working cross-CMS release with full backend and frontend, Joomla modules as Gutenberg blocks and Joomla plugins working on WordPress as is.
In this talk, I will share the concrete story of this port. What AI made possible, where it failed dangerously (security blind spots, platform-specific gotchas), and what it means for Joomla extension developers who want to expand their reach without abandoning their roots.
Key takeaways:
- The "bridge" pattern: emulating Joomla's API on WordPress instead of rewriting your extension
- How AI-assisted coding was used in practice (not just theory but real code examples)
- Where AI failed: security vulnerabilities it introduced, WordPress.org compliance it didn't know about
- How 60+ HikaShop payment/shipping plugins were made compatible through the bridge
- The new economics: if developers can support Joomla and WordPress from a single codebase, more extensions become viable for Joomla, driving renewed growth for the platform
Building a Component for 3-D Media Using Joomla Component Builder
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- Speaker: Allan Dowdeswell
Irgendwas mit KI
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- Speaker: Mario Fraune
My Colleague is an AI: The day my human assistant went to Australia
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- Speaker: Philip Walton
Next generation of YOOtheme Pro – designed AI-first from the ground up!
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- Speaker: Hanna Znanewitz
Accessibility beyond the checkbox: Mehrwert durch digitale Barrierefreiheit
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- Speaker: Marvin Rottenberger
“What’s Your REAL Name?” – Why Your Forms Are Probably Wrong
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- Speaker: Brian Teeman
Improving translation with domain specific translator feedback
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- Speaker: Krishna Gandhi
Mastering SP Page Builder 6: Power-User Workflows & Performance Hacks
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- Speaker: Pawel Frankowski
From Setup to System Design — Building Full-Stack Applications with PHP, Joomla, AI, and Compiler-Driven Architecture
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- Speaker: Llewellyn van er Merwe
Keynote: "It's all about the (YO)U"
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- Speaker: Elisa Foltyn
Elisa Foltyn, President of Open Source Matters, Inc. (Joomla!), shows what an American football team called the "Unicorns" can teach us about open source.
Vertrauen ist das neue Ranking
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- Speaker: Nina Bratka
Wie Websites zur zitierten Quelle in ChatGPT, Gemini & Co. werden
Was uns mehr als 115.000 Joomla Webseites über die Community verraten
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- Speaker: Joachim Nickel
The Million-Dollar Joomla Site: How J2Commerce Turns Traffic Into Revenue
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- Speaker: Olivier Buisard
Zwischen Zukunftsangst und Aufbruch! Menschliche Stärken im KI-Zeitalter.
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- Speaker: Alexander Metzler
