Software, built the way good software is built
Multizone has been building software since 1998 and content management solutions on Joomla since 2005. Six Joomla extensions, all released under the GPL, each with a free trial. Every release is tested across Joomla and PHP versions before it ships, and checked against Joomla Extensions Directory rules before it is listed.
The same discipline runs through our mobile work. Multizone App Modernisation takes existing iOS and Android apps that have fallen behind and brings them back to current platform standards in weeks, not months, with a UK team and no offshoring. This is where we publish releases, updates and longer-form pieces on both the extensions and our apps, whenever we have something material to say.
How we build
Continuous integration on every change. Automated testing across supported Joomla and PHP versions. Joomla Extensions Directory compliance designed in from the start, not retrofitted. Security work runs alongside feature work, not after it.
How the subscription works
Every extension installs with a free trial. Use it for 30 days, or register and carry on trialling for as long as you need. Upgrade at any time for more functionality and support. Pricing is simple, with four tiers: trial, standard, premium and enterprise.
Six extensions
- Automatic Meta Description for site SEO
- Cassiopeia Themer for template visual control
- Verified Forms for spam-resistant submissions
- Payments via Stripe for Joomla for e-commerce
- AI Assisted Article Generator for content streams
- Subscriptions Manager for the keys
Joomla 6.1.4 and 5.4.9 are out with sixteen security fixes. We have checked every Multizone extension against them and released updates where our own code needed the same protection. Alongside that, a round of SEO work took this site’s Ahrefs health score from 84 to 100 — and the tools that did it are in MetaGen, which is free.
Joomla 6.1.4 and 5.4.9: what we checked
The release fixes sixteen security issues in Joomla itself, from cross-site scripting in HTML mail templates and toolbar links to access checks in the web services API, and adds 31 bug fixes. Most concern Joomla’s own components, but a few describe kinds of mistake any extension can make, so we went through our extensions for each one.
- Server-side requests (SSRF). Joomla hardened places where the server fetches an address someone else supplied. Four of our extensions do this, so all four now refuse any address on the server’s own network — local, private or cloud-metadata addresses — check every address a host name points to, and check each redirect along the way. The most important is Proposals, whose enquiry form lets a visitor enter a website address; update it first. Article Generator (sources, feeds and images), Content Amplifier (article images) and MetaGen (its site scan) have the same protection.
- HTML email. Our extensions that send HTML email already escape anything a customer typed, and none of them rely on the Joomla mail template feature that changed.
- Web services and toolbars. Our API endpoints make their own access checks, and our toolbar links look the same under the new escaping.
- Spreadsheet exports. One bug fix stops CSV exports running as spreadsheet formulas. Verified Forms’ exports already did this.
Update Joomla to 6.1.4 (or 5.4.9 on Joomla 5), then update your Multizone extensions from System → Update → Extensions.
A month on from our last round-up, here’s what has shipped. The theme this time is SEO: two of our extensions now fix the warnings audit tools keep flagging on Joomla sites, without you touching a line of code. And if Joomla has been grumbling when it checks for updates, see the last section.
MetaGen is now a free SEO tune-up
MetaGen started as a meta description generator. It’s now a one-stop panel for the SEO issues that tools like Ahrefs report on Joomla sites — still completely free.
The new SEO tune-up panel on the dashboard shows each issue with a live count of affected articles and a one-click fix:
- Over-length meta descriptions and titles. Finds only the descriptions over 160 characters and titles over 60, and shortens them to fit. Shortening titles is a separate, explicit choice because it changes the headline; the URL is preserved either way.
- Headings. Demote extra H1s to H2, or swap a heading level across articles — for example promote orphaned H3s, optionally within one category.
- Gaps. Regenerate meta descriptions that are too short, and list the articles whose images are missing alt text.
- “Duplicate pages without canonical”. MetaGen adds a canonical link tag to article pages, so the same article reached by different URLs isn’t counted several times over. It works alongside the Redirect plugin and steps aside if a canonical already exists.
- Social previews. Open Graph and X (Twitter) card tags on article pages, with the Open Graph URL matching the canonical.
Every change is recorded in an Articles changed list, with the original title kept alongside the new one so you can put anything back by hand. Broken link and image checks are next.
Read more: September newsletter from Multizone: Fix your Joomla SEO
It was built for one person, on one screen: what day it is, what is happening now, what is coming next, and what is for tea.
It is for a family member who is happy, settled and living at home, but finding it harder to keep track of the day. When to eat, when to drink, when their favourite programme is on.
So there is nothing to tap. It never says anything has been missed. No red, no "overdue". Just the day and time in large, warm text, today's events, the meal menu, who is visiting this week, and a note from the family if they want to leave one.
Read more: Daysome is now on the App Store, Google Play and the Amazon
Subscriptions Manager is the extension that issues, validates and manages the subscription keys for the other Multizone Joomla extensions. The newest release also lets it do the same job for third-party Joomla extension developers building their own subscription products. This is the seventh and last post in the series.
We've been busy. There's a brand-new extension to introduce, and a run of improvements to the ones you already have. Here's what's worth knowing.
New: Content Amplifier by Multizone
Turn the articles you already publish in Joomla into scheduled social posts without leaving your Joomla administrator.
Content Amplifier reads one of your published articles and drafts a post shaped for LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon with just the right length and tone for each. From there you can:
- Build a campaign, not just a post. One article becomes a sequence — Tease, Announce, Deep-dive, Proof, Recap — spread over days and across every connected network. *Suggest an arc* proposes the beats and dates for you.
- Schedule and repeat. Post now, schedule for later, or set a repeating rhythm so an evergreen article keeps reaching new readers.
- See it all on a calendar. Day, week, month and quarter views over your articles and their social posts.
- Keep control. Every draft is yours to edit, and the copy is written to read well — no clickbait, hype or hashtag walls.
Your content, your server, your social accounts, your AI key — one flat annual licence per site, no per-channel or per-seat meter. Start free on up to three networks.
Read more: August Newsletter from Multizone: Content Amplifier — plus
Content Amplifier turns articles you publish in Joomla into scheduled social posts across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon, without leaving Joomla administrator. It reads a piece you have already written, drafts a post shaped for each network, hands the draft to you to edit, then posts it now or on a schedule. It is the seventh extension in the Multizone directory, it reached its initial release this month, and it earns this series an eighth week.
Read more: Content Amplifier: turn a Joomla article into scheduled