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Editor OCH: For anybody who is wondering why the share count for Linkedin shared blogs are not showing anymore: it's not a bug, it is deprecated by LinkedIn.

Editor OCH: Kunena (my favorite forum extension for Joomla!) just received an update. This is a security and maintenance release. The last in the 5.0.x series. A lot of work is being done on the new and improved 5.1 version!

Editor OCH: New version of Joomla released: this is a security and maintenance release. Updating your site(s) is highly recommended!

Editor OCH: Good (long) read with a lot of excellent do's and don't per page on your website. Very useful checklist!

Editor OCH: Joomla is perfect when it comes to out-of-the-box #SEO support, but lacks #SMO (Social media Optimization). Just released a new version of ochOpenGraph and wrote a featured blog to showcase what ochOpenGraph can do for your on-line reputation!

Editor OCH: Good blog on what content-scraping is, how it impacts your web site and what you can do about it. It says WordPress, but this is not wordpress unique: can be applied to every website / cms.

Editor OCH: Page load speed vs bounce rate: “the average bounce rate for pages loading within 2 seconds is 9%. (...) the bounce rate soars to 38% by the time it hits 5 seconds”

Editor OCH: Nice overview of the potential back end changes that we will see in Joomla 4

Editor OCH: This is a really cool release! why? In this Joomla release is my first Joomla Core commit! #whoot #opensource

Editor OCH: Interested in design? here is a guide with ten (possible) design trends for 2018. I LOVE them! Hope the Joomla Template designers will take these into account when releasing new versions / templates

Editor OCH: I have been playing with the Joomla 4 Alpha and I am impressed with how it looks template wise: Good read to get some insights into what changes are there and how they came about...

Editor OCH: With the New Kunena 5.0.12 version my code improvements have been accepted into the Kunena project. This will make your live easier :) A new guide on how to implement consistent and kick-ass Social Sharing buttons in Kunena!

Editor OCH: This is cool: new Kunena just released WITH two of my code changes for displaying Social Sharing buttons. They are now also shown on index and category pages. No more using custom HTML modules on those pages :)

Editor OCH: Here we go... Talked about a lot, now finally available to install and test. Let the games begin :)

Editor OCH: It's update time, 3 (medium to low) security fixes and over 90 chaanges / bugfixes... Just updated my sites: flawless!

Editor OCH: Something we all knew ofcourse, but now it is official!

Editor OCH: Why bother with developing (Joomla) extensions. Is it worth the time that needs to be invested?