--- title: How to use Joomla - Tutorials and reviews description: Joomla for beginners - free tutorialsa. Reviews of extensions and templates for Joomla. Answers on questions from Joomla expert Aleksej Khoroshevskij canonical_url: https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms language: en-GB date: 2023-01-24T14:33:58Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms. markdown-tokens: 1083 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Featured - [Website Creation Programs](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-vs-wordpress#website-creation-programs "Website Creation Programs"). - [Why I Chose Joomla](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-vs-wordpress#why-i-chose-joomla "Why I Chose Joomla"). - [A Subjective Joomla vs WordPress Comparison](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-vs-wordpress#a-subjective-joomla-vs-wordpress-comparison "Subjective"). Since about 2008 until today, I've been creating «turnkey» websites on Joomla (in 99% of cases). I also handle their modification, SEO promotion, contextual advertising, hack protection, and loading speed optimization. I'm barely familiar with other CMSs. This article is my answer to a question from clients that pops up from time to time: «Why did you choose Joomla? Why not WordPress?». **It's subjective because I have worked and still work almost exclusively with Joomla (with very few exceptions).** Featured - Type – free website builder (content management system). - [Video overview](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/whats-new-in-joomla-6-1#video-overview "Video overview"). - [Changes in Joomla 6.1](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/whats-new-in-joomla-6-1#changes-in-joomla-6-1 "Changes in Joomla 6.1"). Joomla CMS 6.1 is a version of the Joomla content management system that was released on April 14, 2026. The main changes include built-in CAPTCHA, a visual [workflow](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-workflows "Joomla Workflows tutorial") editor, new [field](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-fields "Joomla сustom fields tutorial") types, versioning, and multilingual associations for modules. In total, Joomla 6.1 includes [132 different changes](https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/milestone/148?closed=1 "Joomla! 6.1.0"), including new features, fixes, updates, and more. Featured - Type – free Joomla component for creating online stores. In the previous [video tutorials](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-shop "Joomla shop"), we covered the development of an online store using Joomla and VirtueMart. In the previous video lecture, we discussed multilingual functionality, and in the Joomla tutorials, we configured [multilingual support](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-multilanguage "Video tutorial «Joomla Multilanguage (Part 1)»") for a small website. In this video tutorial, we will take the previously developed online store and add a second language to it. Featured - Type – free website builder (content management system). - [Video overview](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/whats-new-in-joomla-6#video-overview "Video overview"). - [Changes in Joomla 6.0](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/whats-new-in-joomla-6#changes-in-joomla-6-0 "Changes in Joomla 6.0"). - [Changes in Joomla 5.4](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/whats-new-in-joomla-6#changes-in-joomla-5-4 "Changes in Joomla 5.4"). CMS Joomla 6.0 is a version of the Joomla content management system, which was released on October 14, 2025. The main changes include: automated update, a new built-in template «Cassiopeia extended», an update to the versioning «mechanism», new [field](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-fields "Joomla сustom fields tutorial") types, a backward compatibility plugin and much more. In total, [276 different changes](https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/milestone/116?closed=1 "Joomla! 6.0.0") were made in Joomla 6.0 (new features, fixes, updates, etc.). Featured - Type – free website builder (content management system). Mail Templates (com\_mails) is a free component built into Joomla since version 5.2, designed for editing emails sent by Joomla itself and its built-in extensions. For example, emails from [contact forms](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-5-contacts "Video tutorial «Joomla 5 Contacts»"), emails during [user registration](https://aleksius.com/en/joomla-cms/joomla-user-management "Video tutorial «Joomla user management and registration»"), and so on.