Joomla 5/6 Plugin Development: Complete Guide

1. Introduction

Plugins in Joomla 5/6 represent the most modern evolution of the framework. This knowledge set provides everything you need to create robust, efficient, and maintainable extensions following current patterns.

1.1 What You Will Learn

• Modern Joomla 5/6 plugin architecture
• SubscriberInterface and getSubscribedEvents() implementation
• System, content, and user event handling
• Event Classes with type hints
• Dependency injection
• PSR-4 namespaces and automatic autoloading
• Security and performance best practices
• Practical and complete examples

1.2 Prerequisites