Website updates

25–26 October 2026

Version 1.6

Messages and statements

Messages and statements by Ka Joma are now marked as such in the Repository, like his articles, interviews and speeches. Each kind can be listed on its own and has its own cover.

Version 1.5

Search

The website now has its own search engine. Results come up in a fraction of a second, with the closest matches first, and books and articles are suggested while you type. Search recognises names and acronyms such as Joma, JMS, CPP and NPA from a starting list that the Foundation is still reviewing, and it tries to correct misspellings, though not every misspelling yet. When a search finds books, they can be narrowed by type and by decade.

Advanced search

Exact phrases, OR, excluded words and searches by title, author or year now work in every search box. The new Advanced search page does all of this through a simple form.

Articles, interviews and speeches

The Repository has started to include Ka Joma's articles, interviews and speeches in full text, each on its own page with the date it was written, the books it appears in and its footnotes. This is work in progress: the first articles are published, and most are still being checked by the Foundation before they are published. They are gathered on the Repository page under "In his own words". The "Download PDF" button on these pages will work once the PDFs are ready.

Tables of contents

Tables of contents used to be part of a book's description. They now have their own section on the book page, and searching for a chapter title finds the book. Linking the chapters to the full texts of the articles has just started and covers only the articles published so far.

Repository page

The Repository page was reorganised into Essential readings, the Sison Reader Series, his shorter writings, and a bookshelf of all books by decade. Each book page also suggests related books.

Creative Commons license

All items in the Repository are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license. They may be shared and adapted for non-commercial use, with credit.

Home page

The home page was redesigned to match the rest of the website, with a search bar and links to the Biography, the Repository and News.

Faster pages

Pages now ask much less of the server, so they load faster, especially on phones and slow connections.

Security

The accounts that manage the website now log in with passkeys instead of passwords. Passkeys cannot be stolen by fake login pages. Repeated wrong login attempts from the same place are paused, and the login page no longer reveals which accounts exist.

23–24 October 2026

Version 1.4

Repository filters

The Repository can now be filtered by category and sorted oldest or newest first. A filtered list has its own link, which can be bookmarked or shared. The Repository is also ready for items other than books, such as statements and letters.

Sharing and search engines

Pages shared on social media now show a picture and a summary, and the website can now be found through Google and other search engines.

Privacy

The website no longer loads anything from other companies' servers. Content from other websites, such as the Internet Archive book viewer and the newsletter sign-up form, only loads when a visitor chooses to open it. The cookie notice now says plainly that the website sets no tracking or advertising cookies.

Security

Comments, which were only used by spam, were switched off, together with an old remote-publishing interface (XML-RPC) that attackers use to guess passwords. The usernames of the accounts that manage the website are no longer visible anywhere public.

Version 1.3

New design

The new version of the website went live on 24 October 2026, with one design across all pages and text that is easier to read on phones.

News

The News page now shows the latest story first, with earlier news below it. Articles can be shared or their link copied.

Repository

The Repository shows the books as a bookshelf, and every book has its own page with links to buy or download it, or a way to request it from the Foundation.

Search

Search results are now ordered by relevance, and accents no longer matter, so "Jose" also finds "José".

Security updates

WordPress, which was badly out of date, was updated from version 6.7.10 to 7.1.3, and the plugins were updated or removed. The server now runs PHP 8.5 with the patch for "php2shell", a critical security flaw in PHP announced in October 2026. This also moves the website off PHP 8.2, which stops receiving security fixes at the end of 2026.

Privacy

The website's fonts are now served from our own server instead of Google's, so visiting the website no longer shares your internet address with Google.

1–2 August 2025

Version 1.2

Search

A search bar was added to every page, along with a separate search for the Repository.

Repository

Repository listings show where each book can be bought or downloaded, and how to contact the Foundation when it cannot.

News

The News page was redesigned around a featured article.

Phones

The menu, buttons and pages were improved for phones.

14–15 February 2025

Version 1.0

Formal launch in Utrecht

The Foundation formally launched on 15 February 2025 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, during the month of Ka Joma's 86th birthday. At the launch, the Foundation's archivist and IT specialist presented the website and its first functions, shared the plans for its further development, and called for volunteers to help with the work.

Repository

The Repository listed Ka Joma's books in chronological order, more than 80 at the launch, with links to download or purchase most of them.

Search

The website had a basic search, the one that comes with WordPress. It found words on the site but could not rank the results well. This was a first version, and work on a better search continued.

Biography and About the Foundation

The website opened with Ka Joma's Biography and the About the Foundation page, where you can find out how to contribute to the Foundation's work.

News

The News page was set up for Foundation updates.