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In this article, we are going to add a new field to the article editor screen and use the content of the field to output a canonical link in the head of the page on the article view. At some point, Joomla’s automatically added canonical links were removed as they didn’t work correctly, so this
How to fix fatal errors related to JSON decoding when updating you Joomla core version.
In the days of Joomla 1.5 there were a few limitations to using core content for anything other than simple pages. Yes, plugins were available but they couldn’t handle things like nested categories, item specific galleries and videos etc etc. Many components were created to combat those limitations but the outright winner in terms of
There has been a few reports about not being able to install Joomla because it stalls at the installation and you can’t get past the first installer step. Whilst there are many reasons why this could happen, most times I have come accross it it has been down to the server setup and Joomla not
Template overrides are great, but sometimes you have no choice but to take a component apart to get it to do what you want it to do. It’s great that all the code is open and you are able to do that too. What’s not great is when you hand over that site to someone
Today I was looking into moving our company blog to a new joomla 1.6 test site so I could experiment with a bit of HTML5 Due to the structual differences between 1.5 and 1.6, there is no option to import data from the backup of an old site like it was when upgrading from 1.0
Google, Bing, Yahoo and all search engines are instructed not to index photos from a default installation of Joomla.With the advent of blended search results, why would you not want your images to be indexed and shown alongside your site in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPS)?
Inspired by Robert Vining over at www.joomstew.com and the fact that I am building most of my new sites using Joomla 1.7, I decided it was time to finally migrate this site to the latest Joomla version. I think the actual decision maker was when I was adding about 50 flickr gallery modules to a
I only realised a few days ago as I looked into someone elses site that the standard url on an xmap sitemap for the homepage is /home Both this and the standard / urls exist and it can lead to problems when getting indexed. Here’s how to sort it out…
I was looking for a simple latest news slider module for joomla 1.5. You would think that there are hundreds of them around but nothing really fitted what I needed and anything that did was using jquery which conflicted with the ajax search and twitter modules. Plus I don’t really want to be loading 2
Joomla Estate Agency Canonical URL Problem, solved Before reading this please note tht some php code has been stripped out of this article. I’ve included a zip of a text file at the bottom containing all the code update #2 – I found a way to do this automatically in the end, the info is
Joomla estate agency component has had the ability to use the title alias in the url since the last major update. The currently available plugin for xmap still uses the old url structure which just uses the property id. I noticed this when checking on a site made a couple of years ago which has
The xmap plugin for Joomla Estate Agency (JEA) has now been updated to stop duplicated properties with buying and selling menu items. It can now be found on the JED {removed as it is 1.5 only}. Please give it a vote {try, I dare you} so it rises above the older module which produces the
I’ve just uploaded a joomla 1.5 module to display a share to diaspora button. The module automatically takes the url of the page, the page title and the introtext and sends it to the users diaspora stream and shares it with their frineds. I added a parameter to limit the number of chars sent, as
I just made a quick module based on the K2 Quickicons admin module to add the quickicons from the K2store component to the Joomla dashboard. After just building a site for a client with K2store, I thought the only reason they would want to go to the back-end of the site regularly (It is an
Enable Leverage browser caching for Joomla websites If you use firebug with either the pagespeed or Yslow plugin, you’ll be familiar with the persistantly red, top warning of ‘Leverage browser caching’ (‘Add Expires Headers’ with Yslow) This can be quite simple to fix by adding the following lines at the bottom of your .htaccess file.
I’ve just uploaded a weather module I created using the api from yr.no. It produces a 10 day, detailed weather forecast. Check out the details here And the demo here
Today I made a quick module for Joomla 1.5 to display a newsletter sign up box on your site. It connects with your AWeber account and signs up subscribers. I looked around and found that a module was made for mambo but never updated. There was a plugin for $30 that also used the registration
I have just created the custom html plus module to be able to add text to a component view and override the page title, meta description and meta keywords. I also added the functionality to add extra css and general code to the head section. Normally there is no option in a menu item to
Last night I had my first play with the new Adobe Edge prieview (available free to download and works for just over 100 days). It creates flash style objects using only html, css and javascript. Having never really used flash before I was unfamilliar with the layout of the program (it’s a kind of cut
Just put out a new google map module that plots tweets with info bubbles. Check it out here
This is more apparent when using an AJAX refreshless search method, but affects all joomla sites using the default search settings. Here’s how to speed it up…
If you have a K2store and your site is in multiple languages, you might have found that there was no way to translate your product attributes and their options. Now there is……..
The yr.no joomla weather module has now been updated to work with all UTF8 characters.
Just a quick note to say that the yr.no module has just been updated to add joomla 1.6 configuration parameters. I’m still testing it but there doesn’t seem to be any problems so far. Let me know if there are!
I’ve just finished the basics of the next version of the popular yrno joomla module. YRNO2 is Joomla 2.5 specific and has a load of new features including:
Open up your module zip file or download the module folder from your server. In the main directory there will be a php and xml file, usually with the same name as the module.
Where are the Joomla Administration Header Images? To customise the Joomla admin header locate the images directory administrator/templates/khepri/images/ For the purpose of this tutorial we’re going to edit the default template style which is green. The files are contained in the folder
Joomla Estate Agency is an excellent real estate component for joomla. After using it for several sites and spending some time in the support forum I noticed there seemed to be some confusion on how to edit the property contact forms. So here is how to do it….
URL to preview joomla articles If you want to preview an atricle without adding a menu item you can use this url and add the item ID of the article on the end. index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= If you would like it to display the modules assigned to a menu item then you can add: &Itemid= using the
I recently had an email asking how I removed the ?task=search from the url of the joomla estate agency component. I originally removed the ?task=search query string as it prevents people from emailing the url of a property to a friend. When the url is visited by another user it will show a session has
Certain functions within joomla rely on a high/normal php memory limit. Certain web hosting companys have a very low php memory limit, around 8mb.
Xmap is a great automatic sitemap generator for the joomla content management system. It produces HTML (For your users) XML (for search engines) and news (Please fill me in!) The URL’s to these sitemaps however are not so search engine friendly.
Joomla .htaccess and SEO for Dummies The Joomla content management system provides a powerful, yet simple way for anyone to design a website. However, out of the box, a standard site is not set up with search engine optomisation (SEO) in mind. There are several simple rules that should be implimented into every Joomla
Joomla slows down page loading times by loading the full uncompressed Mootools 1.1 Javascript library. Here’s an easy way to speed it up…
Joomla loads Mootools.js and caption.js by default. If you have ever wondered why your simple pages load slowly, this could be the reason. If you have nothing that uses Mootools.js (dropdown menus and such) and want to speed up your site then it would be a good idea to stop it from loading. In