Joomla! JED on GPL in 2009

I just finished a new Blog post on Joomla Extensions Directory and SEO Effects on the sites and developers that are listed on that directory.

The Joomla Core team also decided that on July 1st 2009 all Joomla 1.0.x extensions will be " unpublished" which means that a lot of websites owners that only have a Joomla 1.0.x extension will either need to update that extensions to version 1.5 or search for other means of traffic...

Selling Joomla Components is not a valid option anymore if you want to get into the JED, however you will see Commercial GPL based extensions coming into the Extensions site, but the commercial part will than be like selling modification service or support on the extension.

Recently we have seen the same thing happening on the WordPress Theme site, with Brain Gardner and friends as the big winners that have their Revolutiontwo site featured on the most visited site of WordPress...great job!

I love the Themes they now provide for free!