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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...
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...
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...
You can probably find this information of the rocket theme forum but I thought I'd put how I resolved this here. The issue is basically that you want the background to stay in its position in the browser while the rest of the elements scroll about. Go to Extensions -> Template Manager> Edit the CSS for the template You...
This issue happened with a friend who was trying to upload extensions. You should find that the configuration file is unwriteable (and that you can't change it using the joomla interface).In the end to resolve this, he had to do a fresh install and double-checked the server settings for a subdomain.
RokStories has been overhauled to provide the spectacular display that you see on this demo. The module adapts depending on your image size, so no need to manually create rounded corners on your images, RokStories will do the rest.The custom features are also available in the standalone version.
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