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Adding Adsense to Your Joomla! 1.6 Site

This tutorial shows you how to display Google Adsense ads on your Joomla! 1.6.x website without installing an extension. Requires you have a Google Adsense account. Should work for other ad providers that provide you with a code snippet for ads on your site. Joomla! 1.6 is now obsolete and Joomla.org no longer provides support for it. The instructions are the same for Joomla! 1.6 and Joomla! 1.7 – except that Joomla! 1.7.0 has compatibility problems with at least IE 8 (and possibly other browsers). Read the updated instructions for Joomla! 1.7 here. Some images may be clicked for larger sizes. It is very easy to place Google Adsense ads on your Joomla! site without installing an extension. Yet, the last time I looked, there were dozens of different Joomla! extensions to help you with Google … Read entire article »

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Installing the Movable Type API Plugin for Joomla! 1.6

This installation procedure is for Movable Type XML-RPC 1.0.0 for Joomla! version 1.6.x. It is likely the same for other version combinations, but there is no guarantee. Joomla! 1.6 is now obsolete. Joomla.org will continue to provide support for 1.6 until 19-August-2011. I have not tested these instructions with Joomla! 1.7 (and will not until I get back from holidays on 19-August-2011). Joomla.org claims there are minimal code differences, so these instructions might still work. This installation procedure is NOT compatible with Joomla! 1.5.x. Instructions for installing the Movable Type API for Joomla! 1.5.x can be found here. Some images may be clicked for larger versions. Installing the Movable Type API allows frontend clients (such as Windows Live Writer) to manage Joomla! articles via a blog interface. The Movable Type API is widely supported. Downloading the … Read entire article »

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How To View Module Positions in Joomla 1.6

Joomla! 1.6 is now obsolete. Joomla! 2.5 is the newest release with long term support. Instructions for installing Joomla! 2.5 can be found here. Instructions for viewing module positions in Joomla 2.5 can be found here. In Joomla! 1.5.x you would append ?tp=1 to the end of the URL to view your module positions. For security reasons, Joomla 1.6 changes this behaviour and you no longer see the module positions by appending ?tp=1 to the end of the URL. This tutorial assumes you have Joomla! 1.6 installed. Instructions for installing Joomla! 1.6 under XAMPP are here. Joomla 1.6 is now obsolete and no longer supported by joomla.org. The current interim release of Joomla! is 1.7. These instructions apply to both Joomla! 1.6 and Joomla! 1.7. Click on images for full size versions. (1) Login to the Joomla! backend. (2) Select Template … Read entire article »

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Installing Joomla 1.6 Under XAMPP

Joomla! 1.6 is obsolete. Joomla! 2.5 is the newest release with long term support. Instructions for installing Joomla! 2.5 can be found here. This tutorial describes how to install Joomla! version 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, and 1.6.6 (skip 1.6.2 and 1.6.5 because they broke some things) under XAMPP version 1.7.3 on Windows XP. The procedure should be the same for other version combinations, but no guarantee is made. Assumes you have already installed XAMPP. (Installation instructions can be found here.) created a MySQL database. (Creation instructions can be found here.) Instructions for installing Joomla! 1.7 can be found here. NOTE: Joomla! 1.6 is OBSOLETE – support for it end on 19-August-2011. Joomla! 1.7 is the current version. Joomla! 1.5 will be supported until at least April 2012. The next version with long term support will be Joomla! 1.8, which … Read entire article »

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