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When Your Website Stops Working Properly, it may be a Corrupt Database
This tutorial is for people using a web host that uses the cPanel interface (version 11.34.1). Instructions may be the same for other versions or interfaces, but not guarantee is made. When we set up a website, we expect it to keep working. Maybe we have to apply periodic updates and patches, but, in general, we expect it to keep working. Unfortunately, after a while, you may find your website, powered by Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal or some other CMS, stops working correctly. Common symptoms include: I have experienced all these on Joomla! and WordPress powered sites I run. Some or all of the comments disappear Some or all of the content disappears You get database connection errors Your layout / template starts looking a bit funny Pages you know exist start generating HTTP 404 Not Found errors URLs start looking funny A … Read entire article »
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Joomla! 2.5 – Installing a Movable Type API Plugin (XMLRPC)
This installation procedure is for Movable Type XMLRPC for Joomla! 1.7.1 under Joomla! 2.5.0. It is likely the same for other version combinations, but there is no guarantee. Even though the plugin name says it is for Joomla! 1.7.1, it works fine with Joomla! 2.5.0 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 Plugin 1a) Download the plugin from here. The download link is the package icon – you will need to scroll about halfway down the page: 1b) Accept the GNU license terms … Read entire article »
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Adding Adsense to Your Joomla! 2.5 Site
This tutorial shows you how to display Google Adsense ads on your Joomla! 2.5 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. It is less convoluted than it was for Joomla! 1.6 and Joomla! 1.7 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 at least 30 different Joomla! extensions to help you display Google Adsense ads on your site. Embedding ads directly within your article requires a plug-in and is not covered by this tutorial. Determine Ad Placement You need to find a place for the ads on your site. Ads are … Read entire article »
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How to View Module Positions in Joomla! 2.5
These instructions are the same as for Joomla! 1.6 and Joomla! 1.7. Some images may be clicked for full size versions. (1) Login to the Joomla! backend. (2) Select Template Manager from the Extensions menu: (3) Click on the Options icon: (4) Click on the Enabled button of the Preview Module Positions entry.Then click on Save or Save & Close to save the change. (5) Observe that module positions are now visible on your Joomla! pages when you append ?tp=1 to the end of your URL: When you are done examining module positions, remember to set Preview Module Positions to Disabled. … Read entire article »
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Installing Joomla! 2.5 Under XAMPP
This tutorial describes how to install Joomla! version 2.5.0 under XAMPP version 1.7.3 on Windows 7. The procedure should be the same or similar 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.) Joomla! 2.5 is a release with long term support until at least July 2013. Some images may be clicked on images for full size versions. Downloading Joomla! 1) Download the full Joomla install from here Click on the zip link. 2) Click on Save as. 3) Choose a directory in which to save the file and click on Save. Remember where you saved the file. 4) After the download has completed, you can choose Open to open the downloaded file with the default application … Read entire article »
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XAMPP – Fixing ‘Strict Standards’ Errors
This tutorial is for XAMPP 1.7.4 and XAMPP 1.7.7. It addresses the problem of many errors being generated by popular PHP applications (notably Joomla!) that you would expect to work, but, instead, generate lots of errors. If you have installed XAMPP 1.7.4 or XAMPP 1.7.7, you may have noticed that some applications (notably Joomla 1.5.x, 1.6.x, and 1.7.x) generate lots of errors along the lines of: Strict Standards: Accessing static property JCache::$_handler as non static in C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla\libraries\joomla\cache\cache.php on line 420 This happens because these versions of XAMPP ship with default PHP settings that cause the PHP interpreter to choke on poor programming practices and deprecated (obsolete) language features. For developers, this is a good thing, but for the general user, it causes a lot of grief. (1) Go to the php directory under XAMPP. Normally, … Read entire article »
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Does Your CMS Affect Your Traffic?
This site began on December 16, 2009 with an article on getting Windows Live Writer to recognize your Joomla! theme – as far as I know, it was the first article on the web describing how to do that because I’d searched and searched and couldn’t find any tutorial on how to do it. After figuring it out, I decided to share that knowledge. I don’t do any advertising or marketing of this site, I rely on search engines to provide me with traffic. I have always used what are termed “SEO friendly URLs” – i.e., my urls look something like http://complete-concrete-concise.com/friendly-url instead of http://complete-concrete-concise.com/article?id=0126334. Originally, this site used Joomla! 1.5 as the CMS (Content Management System). I used Joomla! because I was familiar with it and use it on some other sites. … Read entire article »
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Adding Adsense to Your Joomla! 1.7 Site
This tutorial shows you how to display Google Adsense ads on your Joomla! 1.7.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! 1.7.0 has backend compatibility problems with IE 8 (and possibly other browsers). These instructions worked using FireFox 6.0, but will not work using IE 8 because you will be unable to edit the Global Configuration page using IE 8. NOTE: Joomla! 1.7.1 does not have this problem and works as expected. 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 … Read entire article »
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How To View Module Positions in Joomla! 1.7
Joomla! 1.7 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 and 1.7 change 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! 1.7 installed. Instructions for installing Joomla! 1.7 under XAMPP are here. These instructions are the same for both Joomla! 1.6 and Joomla! 1.7. Click on images for full size versions. (1) Login to the Joomla! backend. (2) Select Template Manager from the Extensions menu: (3) Click on the Options icon: (4) Click on the … Read entire article »
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Installing Joomla! 1.7 Under XAMPP
Joomla! 1.7 is now 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 1.7.0 and 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4 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.) Some images may be clicked on images for full size versions. Downloading Joomla! 1) Download the full Joomla install from here. 2) Choose to either save the ZIP file or to open it over the web. Saving the ZIP file makes it easier to install Joomla again, if you have to. Extracting Joomla! 3) Open the downloaded file by … Read entire article »
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