Joomla; J!

Joomla CMS

Software
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Owner

Open Source Matters, Inc

Type

library, backend, web

Licence

GPL-2.0

Last evaluated

27.10.2025

Origin country

United States of America

Release date

-

DPG since

-

Description

Joomla is a free, open‑source content management system (CMS) for building and running websites and web applications. It includes robust access control, content workflows, multilingual support, an extensible API, and built‑in privacy and security tooling.


Core Components Assessed/Included Repositories

The following repositories were submitted by the solution and included in our evaluation. Any repositories, add-ons, features not included in here were not reviewed by us.

Feature

content-management

Scale of the Solution*

Connected members

N/A

Participated Programs

N/A

Available Languages

Italian, Basque, Swahili, Estonian, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Turkish, Esperanto, Dutch, Welsh, Croatian, Czech, Serbian, Ukrainian, Tamil, Hebrew, Japanese, Slovenian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu (Pakistan), Swedish, French, Pashto, Georgian, Indonesian, Hindi (India), Irish, Persian, Korean, Norwegian, Finnish, Arabic, Slovak, Belarusian, Polish, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Danish, Kazakh, Urdu, Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Afrikaans, Chinese, Khmer, English, Catalan

Organisations using it

Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS) aimed to enable web developers and designers to create web applications and websites, and has been downloaded more than 141 million times during the last 20 years. Below are some examples of websites that have been created with Joomla. Joomla! Government Sites: https://www.hcourt.gov.au https://uidai.gov.in/ https://nbcc.police.uk/ https://www.heb-hagen.de/ https://geopark-vulkaneifel.de https://www.jf-campolide.pt/ https://www.minedu.gov.gr/ https://qms.at https://ifb-online.arqa-vet.at/ https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/ https://www.dni.gov/ https://www.forestry.gov.scot/ https://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/ https://www.zim.gov.zw/ https://www.gov.tc/ https://www.gov.vc/ https://www.falklands.gov.fk/ Joomla NGO’s Sites https://medeor.de https://www.mode-macht-menschen.com/ https://thelabworks.de/ https://www.nuclearsuppliersgroup.org/ https://fondationdefrance.org/fr/ https://www.neba.at https://gam-anon.org Public Library Websites https://sfplnj.org https://poblib.org Public University Websites: https://sas.rutgers.edu https://arthistory.rutgers.edu/ https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/

* This information is self-reported and updated annually

Github insights

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Application Details

DPG ID

GID0092292

Status

DPG

Date Created

2025-06-22

Date Submitted

2025-08-19

Date Reviewed

2025-10-27

Date of Expiry

2026-10-27

Application Log Details

Timestamp

Activity

2025-10-27 18:55:44

Ricardo Torres (L2 Reviewer) submitted their review of Joomla CMS (152) and found it to be a DPG

2025-10-27 18:55:43

System unmarked Joomla CMS (12754) as a nominee

2025-10-27 18:55:39

Ricardo Torres (L2 Reviewer) passed 9A. Data Privacy & Security for Joomla CMS (12754)

2025-10-27 18:55:36

Ricardo Torres (L2 Reviewer) edited 9A. Data Privacy & Security for Joomla CMS (12754)

2025-10-27 18:23:11

Ricardo Torres (L2 Reviewer) passed Scale of Solution for Joomla CMS (12754)