Joomla User Group YOOtheme
Every second Thursday of the month at 15:00 CET (late Oct. to late Mar.) / 15:00 CEST (late Mar. to late Oct.), ie at 15:00 "Amsterdam — Brussels — Berlin", we gather YOOtheme Pro Users online.
Whatever your level with YTP (YOOtheme Pro) there will be something for you. Don't hesitate to suggest topics or to volunteer as a speaker.
This official Joomla User Group (JUG) is an initiative of 2 passionate YOOtheme Users. With other words, it is independent and is not run by YOOtheme itself. We are volunteers.
The idea was born at the JoomlaDays Netherlands 2025, therefore the form of a "Joomla" User Group. But everybody is welcome obviously, whatever the CMS: Joomla or WordPress.
How does it work in practice?
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Around 15 minutes before each Session the link will be published on the present website, next to the Session details.
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No need to install any software: you can join the Sessions directly from your browser. BTW, we use Jitsi a.o. because it is open-source ;)
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Missed a Session? Too bad because there is nothing like participating and exchanging live. But normally all sessions will be recorded and shared afterwards.
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Upcoming Meetings
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Thursday 14 May 2026 @ 15:00 Europe/Brussels
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Daniele Rosario from ZOOlanders
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Advanced use cases with essentials for YOOtheme Pro
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Using Essentials for YOOtheme Pro 3, we'll go through the major features that allow for advanced workflows and dynamic structures when building new sites.
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Button to join appears hereafter about 15 minutes before each Session
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Thursday 11 June 2026 @ 15:00 Europe/Brussels
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Thomas Venugopal (wootsup)
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WootsUp!? API Mapper bridges the gap between external data and YOOtheme Pro, making REST APIs accessible to everyone, not just developers.
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In this session:
- first, a hands-on demo of the tool
- then, the honest story of how someone from the design side of web development built this using AI, after 20+ years of avoiding code
More information on wootsup.com
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Button to join appears hereafter about 15 minutes before each Session
Past Meetings
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Thursday 09 April 2026 @ 15:00 Europe/Brussels
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All participants — coordinated by Marc Dechèvre (aka Woluweb)
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Live forum: bring your own Tips & Tricks, bring your own Questions
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This time, no official speaker: all participants will intervene!
With other words, more a "bottom > up" than a "top > down" Session.
So try to think in advance about
- Tips & Tricks that you could share: it could be a tiny thing or a huge thing, everything counts!
- Precise Questions that you might have
Here is a practical example: at the first YOOtheme Community Day in Hamburg, during a Q&A
- my question was: "in a Grid (or other) Element where you fetch Items dynamically, sometimes those Items have an Image, sometimes not. So where there is no assigned image, how could you possibly have a Default Image instead?"
- then somebody answered "just use RegEx (Regular Expression)". So smart, so easy! I will show exactly how during the Session
Please submit your own Tips & Tricks directly from the menu above !
I forgot to start the recording at the start of the Session, but still the replay covers 80 minutes from the 90 minutes :)
Don't hesitate to regularly publish your Tips & Tricks or to check other people's Tips & Tricks via the new Menu Item above...
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Thursday 12 March 2026 @ 15:00 Europe/Brussels
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Rachel Walraven (Walraven WebWerk)
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YOOtheme Pro for newbies
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This Session will cover various topics, accessible even for Newbies
- How to start with YOOtheme
- Where to find the correct settings
- Templates & pages (difference and what to use when)
- Saving elements and lay-outs
- Dynamic content
Txs again to Rachel for this overview of YOOtheme.
If you are interested to know more, please note that
- there will be several sessions about YOOtheme at the next JoomlaDay USA
- https://www.jdayusa.com/sessions/yootheme-for-beginners by Elisa FOLTYN
- https://www.jdayusa.com/sessions/dynamic-content-with-yootheme by Rachel WALRAVEN
- there have also been numerous presentations a.o. at JoomlaDays, which are available on YouTube (search for
YOOtheme, in particularElisa FOLTYN's sessions)
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Thursday 12 February 2026 @ 15:00 Europe/Brussels
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Elisa Foltyn (COOLCAT creations)
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Date. Data. Dynamics. Filter Events With YOOtheme Pro
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Discover powerful data filtering in YOOtheme Pro 5
- easily display apartment availability
- manage events
- and control calendar content in style
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Thursday 08 January 2026 @ 15:00 Europe/Brussels
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Hanna Znanewitz (YOOtheme)
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Some new features of YOOtheme Pro 5 + Content Types in Joomla with YOOtheme Pro (using a municipal website as an example)
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YOOtheme Pro is a page builder for Joomla that makes it easy to visually design content. Any content can be dynamically loaded into the layouts. This allows you to create everything from site-wide templates to mega menus. In this presentation, I will show you how to structure content into different types with their own categories and fields, and how to link them together. This will be clearly demonstrated using the example of a website for a municipality with information on authorities, locations, people, downloads, events, and more.
Thank you so much for your participation! ❤️
We had not expected that about 200 persons would join this very first live Meeting. 🥳
Apparently, so many persons in one Room was not reasonable. 😱
Quite luckily we quickly found a Plan B and could stream the Session on a public link from a new Meeting Room. 🖵
Our apologies for these ~15 minutes of delay... but above all thank you very much for being so enthusiastic about this new project! 🙏
Last but not least, we want to thank Hanna who made an amazing presentation. 🎉
You want to suggest an interesting topic? Even better: you can present an interesting topic?
The Organisation Team
We are Joomlers. We are YOOtheme Pro users. We are volunteers.






