10 Facts About Joomla

Joomla is developed by a community of volunteers supported with the legal, organisational and financial resources of Open Source Matters, Inc.

Joomla is written in PHP, uses object-oriented programming techniques and software design patterns, and stores data in a MySQL database.

Joomla includes features such as page caching, RSS feeds, blogs, search, and support for language internationalisation.

Joomla has a web template system using a template processor.

Joomla is designed to be used by people who have basic website creation skills and requires an Apache–MySQL–PHP server like LAMP or WAMP.

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Joomla was the outcome of a fork of Mambo on 17 August 2005.

In July 2009 of that year, the Joomla project announced a restructuring of its management: a new Joomla Leadership Team replacing the Core Team that had originally led the project.

In general, templates designed for each major version of Joomla are not interoperable with other major versions of Joomla.

Joomla is maintained as an open source project by a community of volunteers and licensed under the GNU General Public License on an "as is" basis, without any warranty of any kind including implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Joomla is primarily funded by private sponsorships that offset OSM's operational costs; these costs include taxes, accounting, presence at ground events, operation of domains and so forth.