The Ramblings of a Developer, Project Manager, Sys Admin and Tech Junkie
Do I need to upgrade to Joomla 2.5? So do you need to upgrade to Joomla 2.5? That’s the first question you’ll be asking yourself. For those of you who remember the migration from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5 I can feel you cringing already. It’s slightly easier this time around though but it’s still…
Joomla 2.5 Released Well the title says it all. The good folks at Joomla.org have relesed their next Long Term Support (LTS) version of their ever popular CMS with added features, functionality, improved language support and enhanced security features. Click on the post for a rundown of the main points.
Posts in the Supplemental Index This evening I was having a quick look at Google and page rankings. I noticed that man of the pages were not being displayed in Google, yet were first page items in Bing and Yahoo. I haven’t built any links so that’s part of the problem but then I checked…
This post will show how to embed a Google Calendar in Joomla powered websites. In the past I’ve used Joomla’s excellent event management calendars like JEvents, EventList and JCal Pro. These are great for replicating the functionality that one would be used to in MS Outlook, e.g. multiple events, with attachments, notes, attendees, recurrence and colour…
What is Joomla? Well there’s a question I’ve been asked a few times and I’m ashamed to say I never even thought to post about it before as I had always assumed anyone visiting this blog would be would be looking for more in depth information about the CMS. So what is Joomla? Joomla is…
I’ve lost count of the amount of times I wanted to execute custom code in one of my modules. It’s not exactly hard but depending on template choice, what libraries are included and what I want to do I often have to jump through hoops trying out all the usual suspects or use something less…
Ever wanted to create a niche video site that operates like YouTube? Sounds daunting but Dave at Highwood Designs created the HWDVideoShare extension a number of years ago and it’s been going from strength to strength. This is one of my favourite extensions – a seriously impressive piece of work. Once installed and configured users…
OK, so I would like to increase security on a couple of my sites. You’ve probably seen my minimum security post from a few months ago (if not click here to see what I’d do to protect a joomla website as a minimum). So having browsed the forums and extensions directory I’ve come across the…
On a recent client’s site I had to create a form in a module position to allow users to book a room. Everything looked fine and dandy in the backend, however, when the user clicked on the submit button on the frontend the page just refreshed. On further analysis it turned out that Joomla (1.7.2)…
Joomla is a fantastic CMS but if, like me, you have multiple deployed sites you must spend alot of time maintaining, updating and monitoring them. Tools like Akeeba’s AdminTools help with the updating part but that’s just for the Joomla core. Most websites are compromised via 3rd party extensions, not the core at all (or…