Questions tagged [joomla]
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Joomla! Link redirects to another template
I have a website on Joomla. I'm using a template (called "Mall") and when I click a link from the navbar, that link redirects me to another template. I would like to know what's the problem.
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How can I transfer article content from old Joomla 1.5 site to new 2.5 site
I have an existing Joomla 1.5 site and am intending to wipe it and install a brand new 2.5 site. I will pick new plugins, template etc but would like to transfer the basic text / images of the ...
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Weird new users in Joomla user group "Administrator"
I noticed today that 30 people or so registered to my Joomla site (I don't expose a registration/login form), most of them appear to be spammers/bots, somehow they must've found a way to register via ...
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Clear old SEO content from Joomla
Current situation
Our previous website was built to be embedded in Joomla, stuff like "About" were Joomla content, but the main page was custom PHP.
Now that we moved to a complete custom ...
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Suspicious script loads ONLY when navigating to site via search engines
I cannot find anywhere on our site where this code is referenced. More importantly it does not appear when navigating directly to our URL, it only appears when coming from a search engine (including ...
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Joomla! 1.5.9 changing page titles on menu
I am working in Joomla! 1.5.9 and trying to change the names to the page titles in the menu browser (I think that's what it's called).
I have only been able to find basic page info on those specific ...
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What is the feature that imports URL information into Facebook and Google+?
I want to be able to import a heading, short description, and an image into my website, just using a link.
I am using Joomla but can switch to any CMS, or try to build an extension myself. The ...
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How to create a paid membership site? [closed]
I'm looking for a free solution to create a paid membership website. I would like to base it on Joomla or Wordpress if possible, because I already found nice video player and gallery modules for them. ...
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Cookie manager PHP
I own a Joomla commerce store and although I use Google Analytics in order to track visitors, I need to install a cookie manager in order to be able to track cookies that were installed on customer ...
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Analyze high load due to Joomla?
I have a Joomla site causing very high (php) load on the server. I have already ran the MySQL slow log feature and it doesn't appear to be MySQL.
What are some ways to analyze a Joomla site to ...
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Adding a link to an article to footer in Joomla 1.7
I need to create a link in footer of my template (for example a TOS link). My footer has a position.
How can I create such a link in Joomla 1.7? Which module can do this?
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Joomla component upload error 500
When I try to upload a Joomla component via the the Joomla extension upload manager I receive a error 500 message. What can be the cause of the problem? How do i fix it?
Note: I have tried changing ...
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How to change from worpdress to joomla application [closed]
I recently bought a website and took the WordPress hosting plan. Now I like to move for Joomla application. Is it possible?
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Why do I see requests from BOT/0.1 (BOT for JCE) in my server access log and what should I do about them?
My server keeps getting requests with user agent identified as BOT/0.1 (BOT for JCE). The first one arrived 2013-09-14 22:13:17 CEST, the last one yet about three days ago, 2014-08-12 06:05:39 CEST.
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Removing Joomla from client's server
I've been designing a website for a client. It is since completed and I have the ftp details to upload the site.
It appears they are using software called "Joomla!"
How should I go about removing ...
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Emails from joomla 2.5 being marked as "Phishing" mails for vendor and client
The Mails from Joomla to customer as well as vendor are being marked as "phishing" mails. As per solutions provided in the other posts, I checked the header and it is being marked as "Spf-Fail". What ...
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Best way to optimize joomla cache. Difference between Global configuration cache and system cache plugin
I need to know for a Joomla site
there is system cache plugin
then there is global configuration setting to enable cache - how is it different from system cache plugin
below are some of speed ...
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mod_rewrite to change parts of a URL causes infinite loop error
I moved my website to a new CMS and some of my URLs look different now, so I want to delete a part of incoming URLs so that links to my page still work properly.
The old URL looks like:
www.example....
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dynamic website development help
I am wondering is there such thing as a WYSIWYG / graphical editor for PHP based website such as Drupal and Joomla?
I am from the print world, working with code and database just driving me nuts!
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SEO HTML for plain html css website
This isn't really a programming question, but I couldn't think of a place where people can better answer my question then here.
I allways had a joomla website, for me it's good, but it's not very ...
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Is Plone really without security holes as Wiki article suggests?
According to this wiki article (chapter):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plone_(software)#Focus_on_Security
From 2010 there has not been a single vulnerability.
Is this true and Plone is the most ...
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Joomla Article Manager
The Window where the article must be written is not provided with the Formatting icons bar on top.
"Toggle Editor" at the bottom right of the same Window is not showing.
I need instructions on how to ...
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Access denied 403 errors after migrating my site
I've recently migrated my Joomla site from one shared hosting to another with Hostgator. GWT notified me about many 403 access denied pages. I've checked with Firebug too, and even though browser is ...
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Unified data source for k2 installed Joomla websites
I am responsible for a few web sites of my organization.
I use Joomla! 2.5.9 for those web sites. They all are running at the same server.
I use K2 component for content managing.
I have a general ...
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edited and reversed changes on .htaccess - site starts redirecting to .comindex.php/
Site is a Joomla 2.5 site. I wanted to add a non www to www redirect to the htaccess file, did so, then the redirection went mad, reversed but still the site redirects.
When i click view site in ...
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Simple count visitors for front page for Joomla
We have a website with Joomla and we want to put a simple counter for visitors in front page of website, just the number of visitors. I use stat counter but the problem is that I can’t see all the ...
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How can I migrate articles from one Joomla 2.5 installation to another Joomla 2.5 installation?
I want to move some articles from an existing J! 2.5.x installation to another J! 2.5.x installation. I have had a look in the extensions but there is not a non commercial component that does this.
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Joomla: Cross site link boxes
I am currently evaluating Joomla for use on the the rebuild of our corporate website.
One of the features our designs have is spaces for what we've been calling widgets.
These widgets include common ...
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Can Joomla 1.7 ACL control view permission of extensions for users?
I need to create view permissions of some extensions and some parts of other extensions for users.
Can Joomla 1.7 ACL control view permission of extensions for users?
Thanks
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Unable to remove crawl-errors from Google
When I open Google webmaster tools I have about 300+ crawl errors like these:
http://www.verhurenhuis.nl/index.php?option=com_jea&view=properties&layout=rotterdam&Itemid=6&...
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Good podcasting solution? [closed]
I simply ask for the best, most common and simple way to set up a podcast? Please, I need an answer so I can close this question?
I run a joomla-based website for a small church and now need a simple,...
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Help needed with joomla template installation
I got a new template which is bit huge as compared to my connection speed (15mb). When I tried the normal way, couldnt use the upload and install it. Since its doing nothing (time out).
Is there any ...
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A good user forum extension for Joomla? [closed]
Does anybody knows a good Joomla user forum extension?
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Where can I find Mambo 3 downloads / documentation?
Does anyone know where I could find copies of the Mambo 3.0.x distributions, manuals and (ideally) instructions for upgrading to Mambo 4.x or Joomla?
I have an old site implemented in Mambo 3 that ...
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Joomla 1.6 URL rewrite on IIS7 (removing /index.php/)
Joomla 1.6 was released today and I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get rid of the /index.php/ part?
How link looks now:
http://www.example.org/index.php/stuff
How link would look after URL ...
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want give access only one component backend manager users?
I want give access only one component to the back end manager users? it is possible?if yes please tell me how can?
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Set the base url of any menu item in Joomla
I'm not sure if this belongs here, superuser or stackoverflow
I'm using virtual domains, which means that www.company.com has one template www.community.com has another template user accounts are ...
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Website was not redirect from non www to https+www
I'm currently doing www+https redirection where I hope that my website able to redirect from http://example.com to https://www.example.com but it does not work even I have added redirection in ....
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Joomla site slow after connecting to firewall
I have a Joomla site developed in version Joomla! 3.2.0 Stable. The site load time 5 or 6 seconds if the network in not connected to firewall. But after connecting to firewall the load time goes up ...
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How to slim down Joomla for clients? [closed]
I am just wondering is there a way I can create a 'lite' version of the admin backend, removing all the things my client wont need and just including things like article creation, web store stuff etc.....
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Joomla Sub-Menu Won't Expand
The popular items menu on www.nfpn.org (displayed in right side bar) has sub-menu items defined. When someone navigates to a top-level page that's represented in that menu, I'd like for the child ...
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robots.txt ignored
I'm working on a joomla website, and robots.txt is messing with me... i have it in domain.com/website/robots.txt and I just wanna prevent users from browsing directories.
By default it had Disallow: /...
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Will 404 errors affect search engine ranking?
I had installed joomla in my domain with the sample data. I now removed it and installed wordpress in my domain. There are a lot of 404 errors in my domain. Will they affect my search engine rankings. ...
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can mod_rewrite be used for this problem?
We used to have a URL
http://www.abc.com/index.php?itemID=144
which is moved to
http://www.abc.com/index.php?itemID=1556
we want our users which are hitting the above url(144) to reach to 1556. ...
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Attacker added "/modules/com_gcalendar" to my Joomla site
Someone hacked into our servers. Not sure when. They have created this folder /public_html/modules/com_gcalendar and some files in it.
Any one of you had the same attack? Any findings?
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A new database user for every database?
Hi I have a number of sites on a server. They have been hacked. Now I am looking to update the passwords for the database users. There are quite a number of users, as for every website installation I ...
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Server log what does "ho=<something>" mean?
I have got a Joomla site that got hacked and I am looking at the server logs and I see something like:
GET /bind.php
ho=mx01.1and1.es&po=25&ma=cristina%40bpmlighting.com&lo=cristina&...
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Redirect link of old webpage to new webpage in Joomla 2.5
I have modified my website www.vidyaniketan.in. It is a Joomla 2.5 site. When I search for it in Google by URL, there are several sub-links displayed (e.g., "ABOUT US"). this links to the old webpage. ...
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My Xmap generated sitemap is not being submitted
I m using Joomla Xmap component for creating sitemap. Here is the URL of my Xmap generated Sitemap:
http://www.acethehimalaya.com/index.php?option=com_xmap&sitemap=1&view=xml
I tried to ...
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Joomla 2.5 - Password to backend lost
Can I recover the backend password for Joomla 2.5?