By Sigrid Gramlinger on 2026-11-05 23:15 in Certification Team

Participants
Make it Happen session at JWC 2026, Potsdam, 17 October 2026:
Sigrid Gramlinger, Brian Teeman, Sabine Volmert, Angelika Prox-Dampha, Florian Bauer

Things are moving again

At the Make it Happen session in Potsdam, five of us met to discuss how to bring the Joomla Certification Program back to life. We agreed to keep it as simple as possible.

Our approach

• Start with the Administrator certification only.
• Keep it low-level and don’t overengineer it. The focus is on the exam itself.
• Set up a public directory of certified Joomlers.
• Taking the exam will cost a fee, so the certification carries real value.
• Each certification is tied to a Joomla major release, and every certified person gets a personal badge with their name.

Next steps

• Find a provider for the exam platform
• Recover the old exam questions
• Update the questions to the current Joomla version
• Set up the certification directory

Next meeting: Monday, 9 November 2026. If you’d like to help, feel free to join or reach out to us on Mattermost.