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An article for me or for whoever dares to upgrade their Joomla CMS from version 3 to version 5. Disclaimer: I'm used to doing this without any third-party extensions. I strongly recommend you do a backup beforehand of the database and of all your files
This article is a quick note on how to change your Joomla CMS "Read More" to "Register to Read More" all without hacking away at the Joomla core.
This is a short article on how to remove the ID numbers from your Joomla website addresses for search engine friendly URLs. // What I have www.joellipman.com/index.php?option=com_content&category_id=4&article_id=123-article-alias // With URL rewriting enabled www.joellipman.com/index.php/4-category-alias/123-article-al...
During a site upgrade, the commenting extension for Joomla called JComments would return errors when using PHP version 7. This is a quick article to document what needed doing to fix the errors. How?
This is a quick article to remind me how to move a Joomla administration section and to lock it down to a specific IP address. The below does not involve installing any third-party extensions and will remain in place even if you update your Joomla CMS.
A quick article to remind me about this issue. Not sure whether it is specific to the Joomla Content Management System, but within the Joomla! CMS, an error 1054 comes up if you use the above statement.
This is an article to document the migration of a Joomla! CMS running version 2.5.11 to an instance of Joomla! CMS version 3.4.1. I would consider the below instructions an ALPHA version as it is considered unstable for official use... Saying that this is how I upgraded my own personal website: www.joellipman.com. This...
So I'm getting an error like this: The requested page can't be found. An error has occurred while processing your request. You may not be able to visit this page because of: - an out-of-date bookmark/favourite - a mistyped address - a search engine that has an out-of-date listing for this site - you have no access to t...
A quick article for Joomla CMS version 3.x on resolving a menu item alias conflict: Warning Save failed with the following error. Another menu item has the same alias in Root. Root is the top level parent You will need: Access to the Joomla Administration Panel (to check for and remove expired menu items) A good databa...
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