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We’re excited to announce a major milestone for the JomSocial community: JomSocial 5.0.0 is now available, delivering full compatibility with Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3.

This release also includes refactoring across both backend and frontend areas to ensure a smooth upgrade path and long-term stability.

Even better: all JomSocial themes and templates are also fully compatible with Joomla 6, so you can upgrade with confidence while keeping your current look and feel intact.

If you’re planning a Joomla 6 migration (or already running Joomla 6), this update is the recommended foundation for a secure, modern, and future-ready community website.

JomSocial 5.0.0 update - Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3 compatibility


What’s new in JomSocial 5.0.0

Version 5.0.0 focuses on Joomla 6 readiness with a full review of deprecated APIs and legacy calls, plus key improvements to installation, configuration, and media workflows. Below is the full changelog:

Version 5.0.0 changelog

  • Update for Joomla 6 compatibility
  • Refactored deprecated backend methods and legacy code
  • Resolved installation and configuration issues
  • Replaced deprecated frontend methods and legacy calls
  • Refactored photo upload workflow to comply with Joomla 6 APIs
  • Fixed: Incorrect return value for hash in pro/dev version
  • Fixed: JavaScript error in Terms & Conditions popup

JomSocial Themes – Joomla 6 ready

All JomSocial themes have been reviewed and updated to ensure full compatibility with Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3. You can safely upgrade your Joomla core while keeping your community design consistent and stable.

JomSocial Templates – Joomla 6 ready

In addition to themes, all official JomSocial templates are now fully compatible with Joomla 6. These templates work seamlessly with JomSocial 5.0.0 and help you customize layouts without breaking core functionality.


Download JomSocial 5.0.0

Get the latest packages:

Download JomSocial 5.0.0 Download Themes Download Templates


Upgrade instructions

  1. Backup first: Create a full site backup (files + database) before making changes.
  2. Update Joomla & PHP: Ensure your environment is running Joomla 6 and PHP 8.3 (or upgrade in a staging site first).
  3. Install JomSocial 5.0.0: Download the package and install it via Joomla Extension Manager.
  4. Update themes/templates: If you use JomSocial themes or templates, download the Joomla 6 compatible versions and apply them as needed.
  5. Verify site functionality: Test registration, activity stream, photos, user profiles, and key workflows.

Tip: If your site includes heavy customizations or template overrides, we recommend testing in a staging environment first to ensure a seamless transition.


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Hi guys,

Guru Pro 6.3.0 is now ready to download.

This update brings full Joomla 6 compatibility, improved PHP 8.x support, and a set of important bug fixes to ensure a stable and future-proof LMS experience.

Guru Pro is a powerful Joomla LMS extension for building online courses, universities, and training platforms that generate revenue. Version 6.3.0 ensures your LMS is fully aligned with the latest Joomla standards.

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Hi everyone,

Another Joomla update is here. We’re releasing a new batch of JoomlArt templates updated for Joomla 6.0.1 and Joomla 5.4, ensuring continued compatibility, stability, and performance with the latest Joomla versions.

All templates in this release are built on the latest T4 Framework and fully tested with Joomla 6.0.1 and Joomla 5.4.

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Hi everyone,

The Joomla 6 upgrade continues! We’re excited to announce another large batch of Joomla 6–ready template updates, further expanding our compatibility coverage across the JoomlArt portfolio.

All templates below are now fully compatible with Joomla 6 (and also support Joomla 5.4 / Joomla 4), ensuring smooth upgrades and long-term stability for your sites.

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Hi guys,

After the Developer Preview version of Purity III released 2 weeks ago, we are still amazed on how much feedback, support and love we are receiving on a daily basis toward Purity III. For these, we THANK YOU.

And today, the long-wait is now over. We're glad to announce that Purity III stable version is OUT.

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Time flies and I can't imagine that it is already 7 years since our Purity template was chosen to be the winner of Joomla 1.5 template contest. The template was later selected to be included into the core of Joomla 1.5. Purity has been the most successful template so far because of its simplicity yet flexibility. It does not look fancy, but it works seamlessly with any type of content you come up with.

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First month of the new year deserve much more than regular monthly releases, for starters we are releasing 3 cool FREE Joomla extensions which we are sure would be very useful for your websites. Yes, they are responsive too and works great with both Joomla 2.5 & Joomla 3.

These freebies are JA Image Hotspot module - Joomla extension for Image markup, JA Promo Bar module - cool flexible promotion bar for your site, and JA Google Charts module - Joomla extension for better visualization of your data using Google visualization API. Check out details below :

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We got exciting news for everyone, our free Joomla translation component - JA Multilingual now also supports Google translate apart from Bing Translator. While both the services are great, Bing allows 2 million characters translations a month for free whereas Google translate is fully commercial. We have a little comparison chart down below highlighting the features of Bing translator and Google translate.

We have also updated JA Multilingual component to support auto translation of metatags and meta description, which should be helpful from the SEO point of view. The new version also fixes the bugs reported by users.

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T3 Framework - a powerful Joomla template framework version 2.0.1 was shipped last week.

What can you expect in T3 Framework version 2.0.1?

  • Up-to-date with Joomla & Bootstrap 3 framework
  • Improved in UI for both front-end & back-end
  • Even more flexible in term of navigation system

Apart from the new features, T3 Framework still embraces its core such as: Layout Configuration, ThemeMagic, Layout Customization, Megamenu Configuration, and more. If you are unfamiliar with T3 Framework, here are the shortcut to learn more about the Framework:

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Building a Joomla 2.5 or Joomla 3 multilingual site can be tricky, we encountered difficulties while trying to setup multi-language demo site to demonstrate our RTL language layouts for our latest templates. We developed a internal tool to overcome the problems we faced and we thought why not add more options and release the extension as FREE for the benefit of the Joomla! community.

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After 4 months of hard work, T3v3 has finally released the stable version for Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0 a few days back accompanied with JAEM (JA Extensions Manager) urgent bug fix in upgrading T3 plugin.

1. T3v3 Stable Version 1.1.0

During the last couple of months, we have released a few beta and RC versions of T3 Framework and received numerous feedback from the Joomla community to improve the current Framework to the current level.

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We're here with another post on one of the greatest features in T3v3: ThemeMagic. If you guys have installed the latest T3v3 version, you probably already have had the chance to test it.

What is ThemeMagic?

In short, ThemeMagic lets you customize your JoomlArt T3v3 based Joomla! template without having to search for the right file or without diving into the code, one can manipulate most of the template's CSS properties right from the ThemeMagic backend. Video says it all :

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It’s Halloween time! Trick or Treat?

Here at JoomlArt we created a special free Halloween module for your Joomla website! Surprise your website visitors with a flying pumpkin... and if, when you read this blog post, Halloween is already passed, don’t worry, you can make any images move in your website with this great module!

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JoomlArt is proud to introduce JA Extensions Manager, a brand new component for Joomla. The component aims to bring a new way to manage extensions: upgrade, rollback, remote install, internal repository and compare versions.
Our development team promised to transform old extension management into a new and modern one. It comes with new features to speed up and ease the processes.  Check the Video inside.

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