The Ramblings of a Developer, Project Manager, Sys Admin and Tech Junkie
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Joomla 3.5 has been Released It’s that time again; The Joomla development team have released the next major version of their CMS, Joomla 3.5. This release fixes a bunch of security issues, adds plenty of new functionality. For those of you with existing Joomla websites you will be glad to hear that this time the…
One thing I did not like about the old Joomla 1.5 and 1.0 was that need to use 3rd party tools to add extra fields to Joomla’s user registration process. The 3rd party tools were often heavyweights like Community Builder, which were complete overkill for what I was doing, e.g. adding a country or city…
add style=xhtml to your jdoc include for the position, e.g. <jdoc:include type=”modules” name=”contenttop” style=”xhtml” />
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH! Not exactly intuitive. 1. In the “slides” list, filter a certain category from the drop down, located on the right, above the slides list. 2. Now you see the slides for that particular category. Hit the “Order” table header, so manual ordering is enabled. 3. Drag a slide from the 4-directional arrow to…
Thought it would be nice to show those who don’t want to go through the entire installation process what the new installer looks like + have a quick gander at the new Admin UI. First make sure your server matches the Joomla 3.0 minimum requirements:
Exciting times are here; the first public installer for the next major Joomla version (Joomla 3.0) was released this weekend. The STS (short term release) Joomla 3.0. It’s looking pretty sweet.
Sometimes one needs to access Joomla’s functions and variables from an external script. Typically one should write a Joomla extension to do so but maybe you want something done quick, or you just need a little integration to another system, e.g. I’ve often had the need to grab the name or id of a user…
The Joomla team have released Joomla 2.5.4 and associated patch files. This is a pretty low priority security release patching an information disclosure issue and a potential xss vulnerability. It does add 3 new features however. Add option to show full CMS version number in generator tag Implementing Access levels for Content Languages Make the…
The Joomla team have released Joomla 1.5.26 and associated patch files. It is highly recommended that you upgrade all Joomla 1.5x websites as this patch includes a high severity password reset vulnerability and a low priority information disclosure issue. details here http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5419-joomla-1526-released.html and here http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/9-security/10-core-security/396-20120305-core-password-change
The Joomla team have released Joomla 2.5.2 and associated patch files. It is highly recommended that you upgrade all Joomla 2.5x websites as this patch includes a high severity security fix to protect against core SQL injection. details here http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/391-20120301-core-sql-injection and here http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/392-20120302-core-xss-vulnerability Announcement here: http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5415-joomla-252-released.html