Whatsapp is the most popular IM for the last ten years. It offers a convenient and free app which allows users to send text messages, photos, videos, and audio recordings over the internet. Whatsapp is one of the Facebook main app on iPhone and Android. To harness the power of WhatsApp, Facebook has expanded its reach beyond the mobile platform by developing a web version. Now we can conveniently use the Whatsapp not only on our iPhones or Android phones, but also on our computers, laptops or even Chromebooks (a cloud-based laptop that runs Chrome OS)

WhatsApp Web is entirely developed using HTML5 and Javascript. To enhance the capabilities of Whatsapp in the browser, a huge number of open source projects have emerged, disclosing the Javacript API to public. As a result, programmers can effeciently develop their own plugins that work with Web Whatsapp, enabling them to extend their abilities and customize their Whatsapp experience.

Joomla is a very powerful CMS with high scalability. Last time, I mentioned about WordPress vs Joomla in Joomla 4 news. That may not be 100% precisely true. But for my perspective, Joomla is a very suitable platform to build multi-functional site with thousands of extensions support.

In one simple comment, Joomla extension is similer with WordPress plugin, but the more complicated thing is, Joomla extension have several types, while WordPress has only one type.

In WordPress, everything is plugin. But in Joomla, it’s called the “extension”. The extension could be a component, a module or a plugin. To make it easier to understand, I move a picture from Joomla document.

On 7 January, Joomla 4 beta 6 is released, along with Joomla 3.10 alpha 4. Why is it so important? As Joomla 4 is the next major version of the Joomla which stay 3.x for years. According to the official release news, the beta 6 will be the last beta version, which means the final Joomla 4 is on the way.