This user guide shows the current user documentation. You can contribute to that: see under Contributors and Jobs To Do. We are reorganising the menu, so it will have a more logical structure, besides the current alphabetical listing: see under Re-structure.

For the developers manual for Joomla, see https://manual.joomla.org/. You can do a pull request to the Github repository to improve or enhance the developers documentation.

Help wanted

Your help to improve and enhance the documentation is needed and very much appreciated! We are working on it to make contributions to the user guide as easy as possible. This is the current procedure to do that:

• Sign in with Joomla's Identity Portal. Under "Contributors" you'll find more detailed instructions.
• Go to the "Documentation Suggestions" channel on Mattermost and ask for author-rights for your account. You can always go back to this channel for any questions or consultation about the documentation.
• Under  "Jobs to do" you'll find a list of things that need to be done for the user guide. We are still working on that list.
• Under "Contributors" you'll find a tutorial about how to make a tutorial.
• If you want to contribute to the user guide, log in with your author-account under "Contributors" and create a new article.

Hope to see you on Mattermost and on our Pizza, Bugs & Fun on January 30 and 31, 2026. Thank you!

Translations

At the moment you don't find translations of the user guide on this site. That is deliberately left out for now, as we first want to focus on the content and only display the core text in English. If you want to see translations of this manual, please look at JDocManual, made by Cliff Ford, where translations of the current user guide can be found in eight languages besides English (German, Italian, Russian, Brasilian Portuguese, Portugese, Dutch, Spanish and French). Those translations were provided by automatic, AI-assisted translation, possibly with human review afterwards. That will be the way we will do translations of the documentation in the future. For translations of any page into another language, you could also use Chrome browser to translate the pages (use "Translate..." in the Chrome menu).

Origin

We are moving away from the "old" wiki at docs.joomla.org. The content of the current user guide is composed of articles that were originally in our wiki at docs.joomla.org. Two years ago they were migrated to Github Markdown and used as basis for JDocManual (a Joomla extension using documents in a Git repository) and Docs-Next (also using a GitHub repository as basis, but rendered with Docusaurus, like the developers manual does). The content of JDocManual was updated after that migration. For our user guide on this site we used the content of JDocManual as our base.

License

All contributions to the documentation are covered by the Joomla! Electronic Documentation License.