Regular Labs is a company that since 2008 creates and offers an ever expanding and improving range of the best and highest rated Joomla extensions.
Joomla! is one of the worlds largest and best Content Management Systems available. Regular Labs extensions generally focus on extending Joomla's functionality and making repetitive tasks easier and faster.
Regular Labs offers free versions of the extensions and paid pro versions which offer more functionality.
We are fully committed to providing the best Joomla extensions possible, and offering you the highest level of support - with the aim to make your Joomla experience better.
The team
Red Pill version
Peter van Westen
Peter is the founder and owner of Regular Labs, as well as the sole developer.
He started making websites with Joomla in 2005 (back when it was still Mambo) as part of an organization. His mindset of always thinking about ways to improve processes and functionality and add features that are missing, led to his first Joomla extensions.
First, he offered his extensions for free and gave people the opportunity to donate to support his work (developing extensions and providing support). The amazing support from users gave him the opportunity to keep working on the extensions and turn Regular Labs into his full-time job since 2010.
Peter is Dutch and lives in a green and quiet part of The Netherlands, close to the German border. He is 43 years old and has a 16 years old kid.
He considers himself very lucky to be able to do something he loves doing and making a living doing so. He strives for excellence in what he does, to the best of his abilities. He hopes that by using Regular Labs extensions, you will benefit from that.
Andrea Malalana
Andy is a longtime enthusiast of Joomla and Regular Labs extensions. He has been a web designer and webmaster since 2007. After being a supporter of Peter's work for years, and helping create Articles Field in 2017, he officially joined Regular Labs in June 2018.
He shares many of Peter's mindsets and attitudes when it comes to striving for excellence. He's always thinking about ways to enhance and improve everything he's passionate about. So he feels like Regular Labs is a perfect fit.
Andy wears all kinds of hats at Regular Labs: he helps designing and coming up with new features and improvements, testing and debugging. He takes care of writing the extensions documentation, video tutorial scripts. and blog posts. Finally, he also helps out with customer support.
He is 32 years old and lives in Italy. When he's not in front of a computer, you may find him in the middle of the action in a pro wrestling ring. Thankfully, he's a referee, so he's not the one getting smacked around - although that doesn't mean he's always safe!
Blue Pill version
Sven
Sven is the founder and frontman of Regular Labs.
Prior to Regular Labs, he was a scientist working on biological and genetic engineering. After meeting the three chicklings, he decided to settle down and work on something he could do from home.
Regular Labs has now become a vital part of his daily routine. It has been keeping him and his family busy for a year now, and they’ve discovered a whole lot because of it. Sven treasures all the adventures they have had together.
Besides being in charge of the family, he is also in charge of keeping the whole process running smoothly. He finds something odd, Randy solves it, Shelly designs it, and Junior… Well, he’s fun to have around.
Sven cares deeply for his family and the little company they have built together.
But despite the intention of starting something regular, you can’t deny that their little lab is still a little strange.
Randy
Randy is the head programmer and analyst for Regular Labs.
From a young age, he had an interest in solving problems. This motivates him to write code from dusk ‘till dawn. He has always been analyzing problems and situations, he even logs these analyzes in his trustworthy notepad.
Randy is the backbone of Regular Labs. Though his actions may often be underestimated by the team, without his coding and logging, Regular Labs would not be as far as they are now. Sure, the rest of the crew does important stuff too, but Randy’s stuff is most important.
Randy is a young augmented chicken who works best in tidy spaces. You can find many innovative devices in his workplace. Such as his 8x8 Rubik’s cube, which is not as complicated as it looks. He also has multiple completed lego builds, some of them he made up himself!
He is very proud of this company and its team. Despite the fact that the rest often slacks off compared to him, he is proud of them nonetheless. He gives Regular Labs his all and will continue to do so!
Shelly
What does a girl like her do in a place like this you ask? She runs it, of course!
Shelly is the team's creative mind. She cares for the company’s employees and its audience.
As the head of User Experience & Interface, she needs to keep in mind what speaks to people, and what puts them off. She incorporates this natural talent in her fashion design. Besides her work at Regular Labs, she has become a successful local fashion designer. Her family serves as great models and inspiration for her work.
Shelly keeps her team safe and sane. Whenever Randy thinks too much, or whenever Junior thinks too little, she is always there to help. Whenever the boss is away from the workplace, she is the one who keeps everything in check (even if the other two think they’re in charge).
She might be the only member of Regular Labs who tries to find a life outside of the company. She tries out things like Ice Cream Taste Testing, Professional Ballerina-Pointy-Shoe Decorating, and of course Macrame Cultery Design.
But her having multiple ambitions does not mean she puts less effort into her work at the company!
Shelly is very proud of the products she puts out, especially after she has seen how hard everybody has worked on it (yes, even Junior). She loves working at Regular Labs, and can’t think of anything she would rather do than work with her family.
Junior
Space Knight Junior the First is the best you can find! Anywhere!
Junior has earned many titles through the years! Because he is the best.
His titles and achievements include:
- WINGS
Wonderful Ideas & Next-level Greatness Supervisor - SKY
Super Kool Yellow - FLY
Fellow Lellow Yellow
And most importantly:
- CHOPPER
CHief Of Private Personal Elevation Regulator.
Of course, it’s not surprising that the best helicopter in the world has earned the title CHOPPER. Junior is a helicopter. He knows a lot about helicopters. That is because he is very cool. And he’s a helicopter.
Junior also knows his family. He knows that Randy is very smart and doesn’t like it when Junior plays Roblox on his computer. Shelly is very mean but she also thinks that Junior is the best so it’s okay. Sven is the coolest, because Sven knows that Junior likes gummy worms.
Junior likes working at Regular Labs because he likes that Sven gives him big hugs after a busy day. So Junior knows he has to work there so he can get hugs during the busy day. Junior always has master plans like those.
Junior is the best member of the Regular Labs team, because nobody else has all the titles and great plans that he has. And he is the only one that is a helicopter.
