Common Joomla issues we see at the start of the year

Why these issues show up in January

January is when a lot of businesses take stock: budgets reset, priorities shift, and suddenly that “small website niggle” becomes a “we should probably fix this”.

With Joomla sites, the same handful of issues appear year after year. The good news: most are preventable with a simple maintenance routine.

January is the perfect time for a Joomla health check

If your Joomla site is doing its job and everything feels stable, it’s tempting to leave it alone. But Joomla websites don’t usually “fail loudly”. More often, issues creep in quietly: performance degrades, extensions become outdated, emails stop sending reliably, or security patches get missed.

A quick check at the start of the year can prevent most of the expensive headaches later on.

It's exciting times to be involved with Joomla, with the launch of version 4 due to be released before the end of 2020.

One of the most anticipated functions of Joomla 4 has to be Workflows. Here at Storm, one of our clients is very excited about the prospect of allowing their users to create content, which is approved by admins before it is published.