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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
Joomla

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
Joomla

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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Migrate MediaWiki to another server
MediaWiki

Migrate MediaWiki to another server

Old Server mysqldump -u root -p wikidb > wikidb.sql tar -cvf wiki.tar wiki ;this is the wiki folder on document root New Server: create database wikidb; this is inside mysql, Note that both mysql versions should be same. grant create, select, insert, update, delete, lock tables on wikidb.* to wiki@localhost identified...

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Using MetaMod to hide buttons from logged in users
Joomla

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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Add a template to the dropdown in Kunena
Joomla

Add a template to the dropdown in Kunena

This is what I had to do to be able to add another template to the dropdown in the Kunena configuration panel: Download your site from your server to a copy on your local disk (hard disk, flash drive, etc) Make sure that the \components\com_kunena\template folder is on your local disk Make a copy of the default folder...

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View your available module positions
Joomla

View your available module positions

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...

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