We regularly have clients coming to us and telling us that they are unable to install an extension on their Joomla website. An extension, as most of you would probably know, is any plugin, module, or component. So imagine if you are about to install a simple plugin to display the current temperature on your […]

At itoctopus, we receive a lot of Joomla jobs, a lot of more jobs than other CMS’s, which means that Joomla is very popular. But why is Joomla that popular? We think there are many reasons for Joomla’s popularity, including: It is very easy to build a basic website with Joomla that anyone with little […]

We had a weird case today. One of our clients came to us and told us that one of his Joomla websites got hacked, and he sent us some links on his website, containing some obscene content, links to malicious websites, and of course, malicious JavaScript that will probably install a spware/adware/virus on one’s PC […]

Literally every week we either receive a phone call or an email from a client telling us that one of his articles is now marked as “checked out” and is locked for editing. They tell us that they’re unable to unlock these articles to edit them. They then ask, why was the article locked in […]

Sometimes, we have some business owners or even IT Managers in non IT companies (such as law firms) asking us about Joomla. The first and most important question they ask us “Is Joomla a good choice?” Our answer is, as always, it depends. We tell our customers that Joomla is a good choice if: You’re […]

We were in Qatar a couple of weeks working on a huge Joomla website. The website was for a portal for a school (unfortunately the agreement states that we cannot mention the school name on our website). This is the second largest website we’ve done in Qatar, the first one was a non-Joomla website we’ve […]

We have had a few jobs to make Joomla work with Oracle instead of MySQL, and we can say for sure that it’s not a job for beginners. Yes, Joomla can work with Oracle as a database, but the problem is that it needs modification in its core for it to be able to do […]

A question that many of our clients ask is the following: “How many users can my Joomla website handle?” Our answer is: The number of users that your Joomla website can handle depends on the following: – The server you’re hosting your website with. – The number of extensions you have activated on your website. […]

In this post, we have decided to answer 3 common questions that our clients ask us about the location of files/data in Joomla. We hope that this post will help everyone! Where is php.ini in Joomla? php.ini is a PHP system file, and has nothing to do with your Joomla website. php.ini is usually located […]

Most of our jobs dealing with securing a Joomla website by removing all potential security threats have to deal with Acunetix. Usually, our customers come to us with either an Acunetix report or ask us to run an Acunetix scan on their Joomla website. Typically, here are the couple of critical vulnerabilities that we find: […]