I bring to your attention a selection of links to new materials on Joomla! CMS for February 2019. In digest: news about Joomla, a selection of links to tools for developers and webmasters, an overview of solutions for e-commerce.

Joomla development
Joomla 3.9.3 Release - This security release contains 6 low-priority fixes, and the release also contains 24 fixes.
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Official news on joomla.org
Updated
Russian localization for Joomla 3.9.3.
The JED team meeting - it was about achievements in 2018 and plans for 2019. I would like to note that all this is done on a voluntary basis by volunteers.
Completed the vote and approved the position of the second group of leadership Joomla - President, Production, Legal & Finance, Operations, Programs, Secretary
Joomla has become a member of Google Summer of Code - Joomla has already become a member of Google Summer of Code 12 times.
For developers
Test launch directory Joomla extensions - The authors say that in the future will make a full-fledged marketplace extensions and sites on Joomla.
Joomla documentation directory for developers and experienced users has been launched - This is a kind of a guide that provides access to translations of official documentation, links to third-party resources and copyrighted materials and manuals.
Overview of the principles of the Joomla - A very good article in Russian, on the principles of the Joomla.
Joomla code base analysis for compatibility with different versions of PHP - since PHP 5.6 has essentially ceased to exist, everyone is interested in how compatible their sites are with one or another version of PHP, this tool will allow analyzing the performance of the site and extensions on different versions of PHP.
Component Attributes v1.2.0 - allows you to add your own attributes (fields) for menu items, general settings, modules, tags, fields, categories, plug-ins, users and contacts.
Component View logs v1.3.4 - for easy viewing of Joomla logs right in the control panel.
Joomla and e-commerce
In this section, we will once a month talk about any component for commerce on Joomla. The goal is to show a variety of solutions. Today we will tell about Hikashop.
Hikashop is a powerful and flexible online store for Joomla. The third most common online store for Joomla in Russia.
Hikashop is a whole set of extensions for Joomla, which includes:
- A free version of an online store where all the basic functions of the store are available.
- A full-fledged commercial version, which includes all possible extensions for an online store, unlike many other products, almost all solutions for an online store are included in the package.
- Expansion for the organization of auctions HikaAuction
- Expansion for the organization of multivendor stores .
- Extensions for selling serial numbers for programs or any other electronic products, as well as Hikaserial subscriptions.
There is a marketplace extensions .
On the developer forum and the forum of the Russian-speaking community Joomla there are sections dedicated to Hikashop: the
Hikashop developers forum and a section on the
forum of the Russian-speaking community Joomla .
Not so long ago, version 4 of Hikashop was released , which is expected to bring with it compatibility with the alpha version of Joomla 4 and many new features:
- Compatibility with the Joomla 3.9 extension for the processing of personal data.
- The administrative part was significantly changed.
- SEO customization features have been added.
About the benefits of Hikashop
The qualitative difference of Hikashop is in the ability to customize the appearance of any part of the store, without the fear that these changes will disappear with the next update. System overrides Hikashop - one of the most convenient and practical.
By setting up the canonical addresses, Hikashop allows you to completely get rid of duplicate goods and other pages of an online store - duplicates are generally a sore subject of online stores.
Another unique feature of Hikashop is the ability to use mass actions. With the help of user-friendly actions in the admin panel of the store, you can perform batch processing of goods - for example, to make a massive update of prices or change the names of goods.
Work with categories or options of goods is available. You can change the parameters and other characteristics. The possibilities are wide enough, especially if one considers that mass actions can also be used during the import of goods.
Thanks for preparing the review on Hikashop
progreccorArticles and interesting news
Work has begun on Zoo 4 . In light of the fact that
ZOOlanders will also be working on a new ZOO 4, we can talk about team consolidation.
SP page builder - the king of Joomla designers - an article about the most popular Joomla
page builder . If you are interested in SP page builder then you should read:
T3 Framework: features and settings - an overview of the framework for creating Joomla templates in Russian.
7 secret Joomla functions that everyone should try - interesting Joomla functions that are in the box, but few who know about them.
Comparison of popular template frameworks for Joomla - A small test of the performance of popular templates.
A little tutorial on how to use custom fields in Joomla - for example, setting up fields for displaying movies and books based on standard Joomla materials.
Templates
Quite famous in Joomla circles, the developer Roberto Segura released the first version of the
front template based on Tailwind CSS .
The most minimalistic template from YooTheme .
A free university theme template on the Astroid Framework .
A selection of the top 15 Joomla templates .
Template for photographers, portfolio and travel .
Template on the medical theme .
Template for online store Hikashop .
Interesting Joomla Extensions
Widget profile githab .
Schedule module .
Tired of overloaded Joomla editors? A great free
marcown editor for Joomla .
Very interesting form designer .
Component of own OAuth 2.0 server based on Joomla site .
Plugin loading module in the material page by ID . The difference from the standard load is that only one module is called, not all modules.
Atompam plugin for Joomla .
Functional filter for Joomla fields .
The social authorization component of Joomla .
YtVideo 1.3.0 plugin to insert a video from Youtube into the site content.
Digital Project Manager - programs, files, scripts, extensions, modules, etc. for Joomla.
Mitap Joomla in Moscow
Pre-announced on April 12, 2019 evening. You can sign up
on Vkontakte .
Topics for discussion:
Front-end development - accessibility, frameworks, template overrides, micromarking, interface design.
Joomla Digest for January 2019