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Update for Joomla 2.5.x Note that Joomla versions 1.6 upwards include this as an option in the global configuration settings which you can access using your Joomla admin panel: Template Manager Options Preview Module Positions -> Disabled or Enabled You will still need to suffix the frontend URL with ?tp=1 Joomla 1.5.x...
The Issue Basically that after upgrading Joomla, my TinyMCE WYSIWYG (What-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor halved its number of buttons and I couldn't add code snippets... The Fix Just installed JoomlaFCK WYSIWYG Editor, an editor I use with my day job's MediaWiki software and it's pretty amazing. Incredibly cross-brows...
This took me a while to do so I thought I'd document it for future reference. The Issue See the restore default setting link at the bottom of this page in the footer? I wanted to put one of the styled buttons behind it but then found that there's a lot more to do than just that. Instructions Open the templates/rt_affin...
To setup your store to use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) you will first need an SSL certificate. Many hosting companies will either provide (or can offer) "Shared SSL" or the option to buy a "Dedicated SSL" certificate.Shared SSL means that your store will run using two domains your master domain name and shared secure dom...
Change Page Title in WebsiteHere are some instructions on changing the page title in Joomla! CMS to display both the actual page title and other stuff. As I like doing this for this particular website (my personal one) in every version of Joomla it's been upgraded to, I've noticed some differences that I've noted down...
I added this article because when I was only trying to look up how to do this, this nut "the Storyteller" went and carried out a benchmark test on the most popular ways of counting the occurrence of a specific word within a string of text.
Basically the gist of http://docs.joomla.org/Security_Checkli … omla_Setup is as follows: Security Checklist 4 - Joomla Setup 1. Install official versions of Joomla 2. Change the default administrator username 3. Protect directories and files 4. Adjust file and directory permissions 5. Remove unneeded files 6. Turn Reg...
Hide Menu Item from Registered and Special Refer to this link if you want to clean out a front-end admin interface with your website's style. The following is from http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=252258&start=0 at this date/time. Can't simply hide an item but can hide a menu (of course the menu could have...
How to redirect the visitor after the contact page: Open Contact.php and go to line 473 - 475 and change the line: $link = ‘index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=’. $contact[0]->id .’&Itemid=’. $Itemid; mosRedirect( $link, _THANK_MESSAGE ) replace that code with the URL for the contact Thank-you page as def...
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