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Joomla banners not rotating
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Joomla banners not rotating

The issue here is that you have added all your banners, divided between clients and categories and you're looking for a solution which doesn't involve installing a 3rd party applicatoin. Unfortunately the Joomla banner module only supports alternating between banners of either the same client OR the same category. The...

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Mediawiki Extension for Camtasia Studio SWF videos
MediaWiki

Mediawiki Extension for Camtasia Studio SWF videos

This took me a whole afternoon and involved a lot of hope as I browsed the Internet and no one seemed to have done this before. Fortunately, MediaWiki extensions are easier to write than Joomla CMS ones :c) This article shows you how to get your MediaWiki system to display your Camtasia Studio SWF files in it's article...

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Changing the yourdomain.com for phpBB3
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Changing the yourdomain.com for phpBB3

This is related to the issue of renaming yourdomain.com as your title page in phpBB3. You need to login to the phpBB admin control panel (ACP). On the General tab, look under Board Configuration and click on 'Board Settings'. The Site name is the first field in the right panel.

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Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme template
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Installing phpBB3 for Joomla with a RocketTheme template

"OK this should take just a few minutes..." I've written this because I spent all night on setting up a "quick" demo resulting in a quick 1 hour nap before having to go to my day job... It sounds straight forward because both phpBB3 and RocketTheme talk about how to install the RocketTheme templates... But it's not. I'...

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Using K2 with jezReCaptcha plugin causing errors
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Using K2 with jezReCaptcha plugin causing errors

The Issue Basically that you've installed JoomlaEZ's ReCaptcha Integrator plugin to protect your forms ("type two words" captcha) and then installed K2 Comments to use it's own ReCaptcha. If you try adding a comment, you may get something like the following: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare_recaptcha_qsencode() ( previous...

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Does Google Chrome Frame really improve performance
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Does Google Chrome Frame really improve performance

The jury's still out on this one. I have noticed a slight improvement in my page loads but will have to carry out proper tests on the weekend. Instructions to a hard-coder The Google Chrome Frame (or ChromiumBrowser) is quick to enable. Simply ask your webmaster to put the following meta tag in between the head tags of...

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Using MetaMod to hide buttons from logged in users
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Using MetaMod to hide buttons from logged in users

Source: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=431&t=401086&p=1693742#p1693742 It's been difficult to find an easy solution to hide menu items from registered users. Finally, I found a solution that works 100% for me using the MetaMod tool without using any template hacks. The instructions on the metamod page are very...

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