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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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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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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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Add a template to the dropdown in Kunena
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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
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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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Restoring your WYSIWYG editor after upgrading Joomla
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Restoring your WYSIWYG editor after upgrading Joomla

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...

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