Joomla! is an open-source CMS written in PHP and powered by an MVC-oriented framework. Over 6,000 extensions are available and can be installed through the admin interface.
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Joomla 2.5 — Adding a custom field to menu-item-edit-form
I would like to add a new Field (Select list of all menu-items) to the menu item-edit form. To do so I was setting up an system plugin with the following directory structure:
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How can I have a Joomla site where users can create other users through a registration form? [closed]
I'm looking for a module/plugin in Joomla that will give me the opportunity to have system where I can create main users and main user can create simple users. Main user can create files PDF or JPEG ...
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Google Analytics in Joomla
I was asked by a client to insert the Google Analytics code in his joomla page. No problem, I said, peace of cake.
Little did I know that it is going to be such a struggle.
First of all, I ...
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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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Why my Joomla gallery link asks for admin access to administrator folder? And how do I fix it?
I have an image gallery component, linked to a menu item. I also have my administrator folder secured on my web host (user security). Additionally, my folders are all CHMOD 755.
When I click on the ...
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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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Legitimate emails from web contact form in Joomla website get marked as spam/phishing by Gmail
I'm using a Perfect Web contact form on my Joomla 2.5 website. The contact form emails all the info when a user fills it in and sends it to my Gmail account which in turn forwards it to my office ...
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What is the feature that imports URL information into facebook and google+?
What I am trying to do.
I want to be able to import 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 ...
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customize no access error message [closed]
I am using joomla 3.x and have restricted access of some articles to certain user groups. When I am not logged in I get a really ugly message "You are not authorized to view this resource".
I would ...
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Joomla one time self registration with unique code
I am trying to find out if there is an extension for Joomla where you can use a unique coupon code to access the self registration form. After the code has been used it should get invalid so that a ...
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Sqaure payments for Joomla [closed]
I'm having trouble finding a Joomla component that supports payment though Square. Does one exist or, is Paypal and Google checkout my only options.
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Joomla 1.6 site cannot add a new extension through admin interface
I'm having a very frustrating problem with my Joomla 1.6 site. I cannot add any new extensions through the admin interface. I have tried to upload the extension, or to use the search folder option or ...
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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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Cookie manager php
i own a joomla commerce store and although i use Google Analytics in order to track visis, i need to install a cookie manager in order to be able to track cookies that were installed on customer when ...
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Remove dynamic generated end of URL
I have a Joomla 2.5 website with joomshopping and AceSEF extension component.
SEF URL generation works just fine except one issue.
For some reason, there are dynamic parts generated in the end of ...
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In Joomla how to change the module mod_news_show_gk3?
How can I change the mod_news_show_gk3 module to:
Change the size of the post image. It uses the first image of the post, but it seems to not be resizing the image.
Add an extra field: It is ...
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If I use a joomla hosting provider, am I able to customize the PHP *completely*?
not sure if this is the right place to ask.
Joomla is offered by many hosting providers. I have set up joomla 1.7 on my local machine, and I've found a nice template to start with. But I customized ...
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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 ? Wich module can do this?
Thanks
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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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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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Hiding a menu item until an article has been accessed [closed]
I have a menu that contains a link for posting an item to trade and also a link to view all trades. This is a Joomla 2.5 site. I would like to reveal the view all link only after a new users posts ...
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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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Should I use both Robots.txt and META NAME=“ROBOTS”?
I am currently using the Robots.txt file (the standard one of joomla, to say). Now I have found that there are also specific HTML meta tags that specify desired robot behavior.
Is there a reason to ...
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Apache Reverse Proxy
I would like to host 2 Joomla! websites on separate machines using XAMPP with Apache. I need to make sure it is configured the correct way but I am not sure if I understand how it is to be written in ...
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How to remove the menu name -Home from the Browser page title? Joomla 2.5 +
I want to remove the browser page title which appears on the browser like:
Example Name site - Home.
and be like:
Example Name Site
I know the "Browser Page Title" under "Page Display Options", ...
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Virtuemart Displays Featured Product Vertically [closed]
Hello I'm using Virtuemart 2.0.20 and Joomla 2.5.8 with Helix Framework template.
I'm having these issue where virtuemart Featured Products module would show incorrect order of products (it shows ...
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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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Limit Joomla user login sessions
I am testing a Joomla installation for making a commercial website where you pay for accessing content. I just found out that it is possible to login from two different computers at the same time into ...
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Slow Migration is it possible with a PHP/SQL Driven site
I have a Joomla site that is operating on www.mysite.com, I want to migrate to WordPress but heres the thing, I have hundreds of pages and simply moving migrating them to a test site isn't ideal since ...
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Need help in removing and forbidding some kind of malware in my website [closed]
I have a website based on Joomla 2.5. Recently people with AVG anti-virus started to complain that some strange windows appear when they open the site. An unknown line of code with comments "Google ...
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Migration Joomla to Codeigniter - GWT reporting lots of 404's - How to fix
I recently created a whole new fitted system structure for a site previously running on Joomla 1.5 CMS. They wanted something more simple and elegant, and their back-end was a mess of modules and ...
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SEO Joomla URL to WordPress URL's
I am trying to migrate from Joomla 1.5 SEF URL's to WordPress SEF URL's.
The old links use this formatting: /site/sectionname/categoryname/id-titlename.html
I want to migrate it to ...
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Joomla redirect manager doesn't redirect when there are params in url
We've recently transfered a huge site to joomla. It has two languages; english and german.
There is a twitter account which has links to the previous site.
These links look like this:
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How to solve 503 issue
I'm participating in a web project. It's a Joomla web page and it's gained a lot of visitors in the past months. Actually we are receiving donations each year to pay site's hosting and domain. The ...
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500 error on Joomla website
PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function setQuery() on a non-object in /home/josh/public_html/administrator/components/com_jfusion/plugins/phpbb3/forum.php on line 226
Just moved over to a new ...
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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:
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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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Joomla Backend running slow on localhost
I made a local backup of my Joomla site a few months ago to test changes before updating the live site. Everything worked fine.
Today I checked the local version after a while but when I open access ...
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Why is Joomla based website that was copied off of live server into localhost not showing pictures and throwing 404 error?
I have copied Joomla based website via FTP onto my machine and I am trying to make it run on my localhost which is provided by the latest version of XAMPP. I have exported and imported the DB with no ...
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Joomla .htaccess - images gone
I opened a new folder inside my Joomla 2.5 installation "Images" folder called (/images/Icons). In it was a google maps icon and a .htaccess file with this content
Header set ...
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Redirect from SSL HTTPS to HTTP (NO SSL)
Many of my visitors have bookmarked my site already with https://mydomain.com. Under the bad advice of a programmer I have put my whole site (Joomla) using SSL.
I do not sell anything or provide any ...
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Joomla 1.5 to Wordpress 3.1 migration: how to redirect Joomla's permalinks
I'm migrating a Joomla 1.5 site to a WordPress 3.1 site (I will later update to WP 3.2.x) and I've found the right tool to do it, a plugin called Joomla 1.5 Importer. There is another plugin called ...
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Is Joomla or Drupal easier to manage?
Is Joomla or Drupal easier to manage?
Better community than the other to receive help?
One made for corporations vs for private?
Seems like WordPress is very popular, too, but can it do the same ...
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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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Display RokNavMenu as a two-tier menu system [closed]
I am trying to modify the was RokNavMenu displays its dropdown menus.
Assuming a 3-level menu, I need to have level 1 and level 2 be horizontal and level 3 drop down from level 2
This image shows ...
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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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Including title page name in PHP URLs
How do I show titles of the page in URLs?
Currently: http://websitename.com/index.php?c_id=18&start=0&m_id=1
Change To: ...
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How can redirect pages from old core PHP site to new Joomla site?
We have our old site into core PHP and we have developed it again into Joomla 1.5 last year (because of some limitations we have to build it into 1.5). Now the problem is the URL of sites changed as ...
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Raw coding vs Joomla / Drupal
Currently my sites pages load in about 500ms. The html, css, javascript, php, python, perl, and sql queries are totally unoptimised. If I recreate the site using Joomla, will my site slow down?
