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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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 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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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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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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Best tools to build an auction website
Can I get your feedback on the best tools to build an auction website with the following features:
The site takes a commission (like 5%) on each transaction
Each user can assign a rating (like 4.5 ...
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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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how to create Joomla templates?
I see a lot of sites selling Joomla templates at a premium but most of them look simple enough to build.
Where can I find some tutorials to create such templates which I can provide users for free?
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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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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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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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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 are the different ways of making a Joomla! website mobile friendly?
I am involved in the development of a number of Joomla! websites and we would like to make these websites mobile friendly. I have done a bit of searching online and I can't seem to find any standard ...
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Joomla Hide Menu Item, or: Using Rich Content as part of the navigation
In my Joomla based web site, I have a two layer main menu. The page layout contains two sections whereas the left one displays the content and the right one displays some other kind of content which ...
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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 In htaccess REQUEST_URI is always returning index.php instead of SEF URL
I have installed joomsef version 3.9.9 with the Joomla 1.5.25. Now I want to set https for some of the section of my site(e.g URI starts with /events/) while wanting rest of all urls on http.I am ...
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Is there still a need for 3rd party SEO extensions with the new Joomla 2.5?
In Joomla 2.5 they upgraded the core SEO.
That got me to thinking, do I still need to use third party extensions for my SEO? If yes, why? What is it that 3rd party extensions provide that Joomla ...
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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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As a beginner, I would like to know which should be the markup language to startup with [closed]
I am a beginner in Web Designing.
For sure a CMS like Joomla (Joomla 3.1, now) is very useful for one who doesn't care about coding.
But...
I know for sure that the ability of coding really helps a ...
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Joomla Sites hacked by DR-MTMRD [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
My Sites Were Hacked. What To Do?
A few of my joomla sites were hacked. After I became aware of this, I did these things:
Changed hosting passwords (mysql, ftp, control ...
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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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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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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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Joomla or Wordpress for Classified Ads Website?
I am looking to build a classified ads website but confused whether to go with joomla or wordpress. I know only a little about joomla and nothing about wordpress. Also if in the future, I want to ...
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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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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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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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How to monitor outgoing server activity to detect malware?
I have a website that has previously been victim of malware. I restored the site from an old backup and have made every effort to lock down the server. I have no way to be absolutely certain that the ...
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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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Good podcasting solution?
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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Joomla. Link redirects to another template
Well, i din't know where to post this question (here or stackoverflow) but i really need your help. I have a website on joomla, i'm using a template (called Mall) and when i click a link from the ...
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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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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 subscription ecommerce solution
I am using Joomla and want to implement a subscription based ecommerce solution. I started using VirtueMart and noticed its shortcomings regarding subscription based recurring items.
Turns out ...
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Wordpress, Joomla, on amazon S3 only? or do I need EC2 instance
for services like wordpress and joomla, I remember kind of just dropping project files on an FTP when I was doing static websites.
Now Amazon S3 buckets reminds me of that, and it can be used for ...
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How to do a page with only rotating banner in Joomla?
i'm using Joomla as CMS. I need a component who allow me to do a page with a lot of banner, who rotates.
Can you give me some advice ?
Thanks
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joomla 2.5 : list links to articles in 2 columns
I have a Joomla! 2.5 website, and I have to add a lightbox popup that will contain links to all articles from a specific category(+subs).
If anyone can suggest all-in-one solution, that will be ...
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“No Cache Directory specified.” - How do I solve this?
I'm working with a website running Joomla 1.5. Right now I'm trying to update some articles and just recently when I tried to upload an image file (via the JCE editor extension) this error message ...
