JUG London meetup for 2026
Guest Speaker: Hannes Papenberg
Topic: From Joomla 3+ to Joomla 6 code in 30 minutes
2nd Speaker: NA
Topic: Open Mic bring your own subject
Sep
15
Monthly JUG Meetup (See more info)
19:00 to 21:00
Welcome to Joomla London User Group's monthly meetup
September's JUGL meetup takes on the extension you have not touched in years. Hannes Papenberg — a Joomla core contributor and a familiar face here — shows how to get an old extension onto Joomla 6 code and structure automatically, in about thirty minutes.
Hannes Papenberg — From Joomla 3+ to Joomla 6 code in 30 minutes
Most of us have an extension still running on Joomla 3 code, left alone because the rewrite looks too big to start. Hannes goes through the motions of updating one automatically — code and structure, from Joomla 3 or any version since, in a matter of thirty minutes per extension. The tool behind it is jrector (github.com/joomla-projects/jrector): Joomla rule sets for Rector, the PHP refactoring engine, installed as a Composer package and run over your extension from the command line. He'll also cover setting up a development environment you can keep using afterwards. No more excuses for old code.
Open discussion — what's on your mind?
The second half is open. Bring whatever you want to talk about — we'll put a few up to start if nobody else does: modern site building with or without page builders, security in an AI hacking world, MCPs and whether they're worth the trouble, and using AI for development. No slides required.
Schedule — starts 18:00 UTC (19:00 BST) 15th Sep, runs until 20:00 UTC (21:00 BST):
18:00 — Introductions, chit-chat, and news
18:15 — Hannes Papenberg: From Joomla 3+ to Joomla 6 code in 30 minutes
19:00 — Questions
19:15 — Open discussion — what's on your mind?
19:45 — Fireside chat, news, social, and wrap-up
Register to Attend
Our monthly meetup helps Joomla! users improve their knowledge and skill.
Our next meeting is on:
JUG London meetup for May 2025
Event - JUG London meetup for May 2025
- Title:
- JUG London meetup for May 2025
- When:
- Tuesday 20th May, 19:00 - 21:00
- Guest Speaker:
- Cliff Ford
- Topic:
- Jdocmanual: A site for Joomla! documentation
- 2nd Speaker:
- Maarten Blokdijk
- Topic:
- Ai and Joomla, from smart chatbots, to more ease of use managing your website with AI.
- Type of Event:
- Monthly JUG Meetup
Description
July's mid-year JUGL meetup event:
Join us for this month's Joomla User Group London (#JUGL) meetup!
For July, we have two sessions from this year's Google Summer of Code students, presenting their contributions to the Joomla project
Reda Mohamed - One Article, Many Categories
Joomla articles are traditionally limited to just one category. Reda's Google Summer of Code project adds secondary categories, so a single article can be associated with multiple categories to better organise site content — appearing in each category's blogs, lists and search results, with article counts, filtering and custom fields all following along.
Project: https://github.com/joomla-projects/gsoc26_multicategory
Weno Ndum Billy Hans - Workflows That Move Themselves
Editors move each article through Joomla's workflow by hand. Weno's Google Summer of Code project lets rules do it instead — articles advancing on their own, with a nudge when something needs a human. A workflow that runs itself.
Project: https://github.com/joomla-projects/gsoc26_automated_workflow
Schedule (UTC):
Starting at 18:00 UTC (19:00 BST) 21st July, and will run until 20:00 UTC (21:00 BST).
18:00 - Introductions, chit-chat, and news
18:15 - Reda Mohamed: One Article, Many Categories
18:45 - Questions
19:00 - Weno Ndum Billy Hans: Workflows That Move Themselves
19:45 - Questions
20:00 - Fireside chat, news, social, and wrap-up
...Times may vary
Join us for a relaxed, informative evening focused on Joomla. BYOD for the after party... if we make it that far.
Register (free) at https://www.joomlalondon.co.uk/jugl
You can also ping us on Twitter @joomlalondon
You are also welcome to join the Joomla community on Mattermost here: https://joom.la/chat then message Philip Walton from the search bar to get meeting details.
Youtube channel for vids of previous talks:
https://www.youtube.com/c/JoomlalondonUk
Previous video:
J2Commerce 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxa-SvzpvM
Venue - Google Meet / Hangouts
- Location:
- Google Meet / Hangouts
- City:
- Online / Google Meet
- Country:
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