I'm not very keen on end-of-year posts, but I do feel that this time it's worth looking back a bit, and more importantly, also looking forward. So here I go, 2025 and 2026 from my perspective as a Joomla SEO and content extensions developer.
What happened in 2025?
A lot. But I think I can easily break it down into two parts: development and community:
2025 was a very busy year in terms of development and releases. I had never done this before, but today I took the time to just count releases throughout 2025: a total of 37 new releases across 8 extensions:
App
Releases
4Analytics
10
4SEO
7
4Command
6
4AI
5
4SEF
4
4Podcast
2
4Logs
2
4Video
1
Importantly, most of these were feature releases, bringing in new functions and not just mere bug fixes or small adjustments.
A quick note to inform you of a change in how I manage subscriptions here at weeblr.com.
How was it working?
In July 2023, I introduced a big change in my subscription plans, as I needed to increase prices but did not want to simply increase prices. So I started offering each subscription in two versions:
regular subscriptions are valid for up to 3 sites
pro subscriptions are valid for an unlimited number of sites
The idea was that users with many websites are agencies, and it would be easier for them to pay a bit more, while prices would stay the same for individuals and smaller businesses, who most often are managing just their own website.
The thing is: I did not actively enforce these limits. I trusted my users, most of them very long-time users, to progressively upgrade their subscription at the next renewal, and get a pro version based on how many sites they were using our extensions on.
After nearly two and a half years, I unfortunately came to the conclusion that my expectation was not realistic. While a significant number of users indeed upgraded, a large fraction use extensions on 30, 50 or 100 websites with just a regular subscription.
What's changing?
Effective 1 January 2026, I will enable website count controls on subscriptions. This means:
if you use your subscription update/access key on 3 or fewer sites, there's no change
if you have more than 3 sites and a PRO subscription, no change either
if you have more than 3 sites and a regular subscription, one-click updates will stop working after the first 3 sites
In addition to updates, the following features are linked to your subscriptions and are therefore affected as well:
4SEO Google Search Console connection and data extraction
4Analytics AI analysis
These features will only work on the number of sites associated with your subscription.
Things are moving fast around us and there are new tools we can take advantage of to better assist us. Using AI at Weeblr is nothing new, 4AI was published in May 2023, more than 2 years ago, and has since gained new features continuously.
It's by far the most feature-full AI assistant for all versions of Joomla but right now, it was our only extension using AI.
That's changing now, with the release of 4Analytics version 4 which brings you AI analysis.
Another real quick blog post to announce the availability of development versions of all our extensions compatible with the current beta version of Joomla 6.
Joomla 6 is around the corner
The Joomla project announced the release of Joomla 6 beta 2 recently. This is a test version, meant to let website owners but also extensions and templates developers update their websites or products to adjust to the upcoming Joomla 6 official release.
Joomla 6 official full and stable release is scheduled for October 14.
Why bother?
Joomla 6 is what's called a major version (i.e. from 5.x to 6.x). As major version change is when Joomla developers are "allowed" to include breaking changes, well, they do.
A quick blog post to announce a pretty big step forward for 4AI in version 5.0. Since its appearance nearly two years ago, 4AI has worked by using the OpenAI AI service. OpenAI are the makers of ChatGPT and at the time, they were not only the obvious choice as a provider for an AI API, but essentially the only one.
Google Gemini models in 4AI
I've been continuously monitoring and testing all the various API providers which have appeared over the last 2 years: Claude, Mistral and of course DeepSeek just recently.
None of them appeared valid choices to be part of 4AI, either for reasons of price, availability, reliability or just speed.
This changed on February 5, when Google released Gemini version 2.0. Gemini is fast, much faster than OpenAI, it works very well and is essentially free for use in 4AI, as Google's free tier allows up to 1500 requests per day free of charge.
