We've been busy. There's a brand-new extension to introduce, and a run of improvements to the ones you already have. Here's what's worth knowing.
New: Content Amplifier by Multizone
Turn the articles you already publish in Joomla into scheduled social posts without leaving your Joomla administrator.
Content Amplifier reads one of your published articles and drafts a post shaped for LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon with just the right length and tone for each. From there you can:
- Build a campaign, not just a post. One article becomes a sequence — Tease, Announce, Deep-dive, Proof, Recap — spread over days and across every connected network. *Suggest an arc* proposes the beats and dates for you.
- Schedule and repeat. Post now, schedule for later, or set a repeating rhythm so an evergreen article keeps reaching new readers.
- See it all on a calendar. Day, week, month and quarter views over your articles and their social posts.
- Keep control. Every draft is yours to edit, and the copy is written to read well — no clickbait, hype or hashtag walls.
Your content, your server, your social accounts, your AI key — one flat annual licence per site, no per-channel or per-seat meter. Start free on up to three networks.
Article Generator — better sources, cleaner drafts
If you write with the Article Generator, the latest version gives you more say over the research and tidier output:
- Review your sources. A shared good/bad sources list lets you mark, verify and delete the sources behind an article, on both Topics and Article Briefs.
- Pin the sources that matter. Lock a source so it's always kept and always used for grounding — plus a manual "Add source" control and a "Regenerate sources" action that re-runs research without touching your draft.
- Drafts that follow your house style. Your style guidance is now applied by the generation pipeline.
- Proper image attribution, including images using the UK Open Government Licence.
Cassiopeia Themer — a lot more control over your look
Themer has had a run of releases. If you haven't updated in a while, here's what you'd gain:
- Light, dark and auto appearance. Give your site a proper dark mode — or let it follow the visitor's device — with the standard Bootstrap theme switch, no custom code.
- Google Fonts, the easy way. A type-ahead font picker on the typography panel, a live specimen preview so you can see a font before you commit, and the web-font loading handled for you.
- Colour that carries through. Build a palette and apply gradient Quick Presets from it, set a semantic alert colour mode, choose your favicon icon colour, and pick matching container pairs — your brand colours flow through the whole theme.
- Layout panels for real pages. Control how images inside articles are sized (including a working maximum height, so tall images stay in proportion), and turn a Category Blog into clean cards — all without hand-editing CSS.
- Check your colours before you ship. A "Test article" button creates a colour-validation article so you can see your palette on real content in one click.
Verified Forms — the right list for the right message
Verified Forms now separates subscribers, by Joomla user group for cleaner lists and cleaner sends.
Verified Forms now sends scheduled email broadcasts through Postmark, with a Sent/Scheduled/Draft view of every send, a per-recipient history of who each broadcast reached, open/click/bounce figures pulled back from Postmark, and a Save as Copy button to reuse a past newsletter. It now ships as a package (the component plus a scheduled-task plugin that sends broadcasts when they're due), so this release needs a one-time manual reinstall — upload the new package once and it updates your existing install in place, keeping all your forms, subscribers and settings.
A better trial experience across the range
Every Multizone extension now shows a clearer trial status and an easy way to register for a free trial key, which removes the reminders and the trial time limit — with a straightforward path to upgrade when you're ready for more.
Updating
All of these arrive through the normal Joomla **Extensions → Update** screen. As always, take a backup first, and check your site after updating.
Thanks using our extensions for Joomla, and if you try Content Amplifier, we'd love to hear how you get on.
- Angus