Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 19 August 2026 Published: 23 August 2026 Last Updated: 23 August 2026

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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MCP for Joomla turns your Joomla site into an MCP server, so an AI assistant can read and edit your content, menus, users, templates and SEO directly — no local Node, no Python, no proxy. In this stream I'll show you where it's running out in the wild and everything that landed in the latest v2.5.0 release.
Here's what we'll get into:
✅ The new v2.5.0 Setup Guide — the copy-a-prompt path built for site owners who don't want to touch a config file
✅ The add-on catalog — 4SEO, RSTicketsPro, Template Creator CK, AdAgency, Akeeba and more, installed with one click from inside Joomla
✅ Why it's not just for Claude anymore — Cursor, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf and any standard MCP client all work
✅ How the Pro add-ons work through Cybersalt memberships, while the free core stays free It's already live on 15+ sites — Cybersalt's own brands, a handful of client sites, and even a county .gov — so this is a look at real production use, not a sandbox demo.
This one's for Joomla site owners, freelancers and agencies who want to point an AI assistant at a real site and actually get work done, whichever assistant you already use.
Get MCP for Joomla (free core): https://www.cybersalt.com/extensions/...
Pro add-ons & memberships: https://www.cybersalt.com/membership-...

Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 05 August 2026 Published: 06 August 2026 Last Updated: 06 August 2026

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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Today I'm doing the thing every busy web person puts off: taking my OWN Joomla site to the doctor. cybersalt.org has been running for years while I keep everyone else's sites patched and clean — so today it goes up on the lift, live and unedited. The vitals are good — Joomla core is current, PHP is current, the site is fast. But open the cabinet and there are 600 installed extensions, 86 of them disabled but never removed, plus a few default files left sitting in the open. That's the real lesson of this stream: "current on the important stuff" is the starting line, not the finish line. What I work through on air:

✅ A real health check — core, PHP, and the pre-update healthcheck
✅ The medicine cabinet cleanout — uninstalling dozens of dead, disabled extensions (disabled is NOT removed)
✅ Confirming the update list is real and not just a stale cache
✅ Checking old security scars from a cleanup earlier this year
✅ Tmp/cache and log hygiene
✅ Locking down default files that shouldn't be public
✅ Making sure my own backups are actually running

Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 29 July 2026 Published: 29 July 2026 Last Updated: 29 July 2026

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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The finale of the Jewel Osman extension picnic — we clear the whole shelf. Three streams in, this one covers the last 36 modern-Joomla extensions in the "JO" catalog, led by JO Fun Captcha (the tic-tac-toe CAPTCHA Jewel built to guard his own forms) and JO Module to Component (the only component in the entire catalog). Plus a content-authoring block (Article Snippet, Auto Article, Table of Contents, Read More Toggle) and a run down the rest of the shed.
This is for Joomla site owners and freelancers who want a fast, honest tour of a working extension catalog — what's worth installing, what to watch for on performance, and where these fit on a real site. Catch up on the picnic:
✅ Picnic #1 — WMW #345:    • Jewel Osman Picnic #1 — JO Remote Admin + ...  
✅ Picnic #2 — WMW #346 Jewel Osman's catalog: https://jewelosman.com

Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 15 July 2026 Published: 19 July 2026 Last Updated: 19 July 2026

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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The second stop on our walk through Jewel Osman's ~67-item "JO"-prefixed Joomla extension catalog.
Picnic #1 (WMW #345) worked the exclusive/pro member tier top-to-bottom — this time we're into the wider free-tier shelf with 47 modules, plugins, and the catalog's one component still to touch. Star candidates: JO Text-to-Chart (visual demo material), JO Word Cloud, JO Photocard Generator (already on our extension-tracker at Cybersalt), JO Fun Captcha (the delightful tic-tac-toe CAPTCHA Jewel uses on his own site), JO Module to Component (the only component in the whole catalog), plus the admin-UX cluster — Alternative Admin Menu, Horizontal Admin Menu, Cache Cleaner.
Jewel is a solo Joomla developer based in Bangladesh who ships under his own brand at jewelosman.com. Live install, live poke, live commentary — same picnic format as #345, no script, no rehearsal.
Featured extensions (subject to time):
JO Text-to-Chart, JO Word Cloud, JO Photocard Generator, JO Fun Captcha, JO Module to Component, JO Alternative Admin Menu, JO Horizontal Admin Menu, JO Cache Cleaner, JO Beautiful Tooltip, JO Timeline, JO Opening Hours, JO Countdown (module form), JO Read More Toggle, JO Magic Background, JO Article Snippet, JO Simple Modal, JO Testimonials, JO Table of Contents.
Vendor site: https://jewelosman.com