Add interactive 3D globes to Joomla articles with the Content - MiniGlobe plugin. This free tool uses {miniglobe} tags to render customizable, spinning globes via Three.js, supporting textures, bump maps, clouds, and markers for global data like locations or stats. Features include static/dynamic markers (JSON/AJAX), rotation controls, and lightweight performance (under 1.3MB). Ideal for infographics or eye-catching visuals.
Extension Page: Content - MiniGlobe
| Maturity | Stable |
| Released on | Wednesday, 24 December 2025 |
performance improvement - globes that are not visible will pause, preventing unnecessary cpu/gpu processing. animation resumes when the globe becomes visible again. Uses IntersectionObserver.
| Maturity | Stable |
| Released on | Wednesday, 17 December 2025 |
Made the globe more interactive - drag to rotate is now available. Upon release, the globe gently returns to its original axis and rotation.
| Maturity | Stable |
| Released on | Wednesday, 17 December 2025 |
Moved ajax fetch operations to a web worker. Initialized the globe differently so as to not render block the rest of the page. Globe fades in after its render is complete. A bunch of little things that cumulatively make a big difference.
| Maturity | Stable |
| Released on | Monday, 03 November 2025 |
5.1.2 introduces js update to prevent cache for ajax retrieved json and kml files.
| Maturity | Stable |
| Released on | Friday, 24 October 2025 |
added mediaversion to js files
| Maturity | Stable |
| Released on | Friday, 24 October 2025 |
Added hoverStop and markersKML features
| Maturity | Stable |
| Released on | Friday, 10 October 2025 |
Fixed an error where an empty array made it into htmlspecialchars() on globes that were not initialized with any markers.
| Maturity | Stable |
| Released on | Wednesday, 24 September 2025 |
Why do I always forget to add the update server to the XML file? At least I caught it before the JED reminded me.
| Maturity | Stable |
| Released on | Wednesday, 24 September 2025 |
Update to fix event dispatcher issue