One of the common questions that we get from owners of advanced Joomla websites is how to assign articles to multiple categories in Joomla. Our immediate answer to this question is that by default, Joomla does not allow assignment of an article to multiple categories (or sections). The answer we typically receive is “Why”, and […]
Let’s say that you are creating an article called “Privacy Policy” on your Joomla website. You add the article to your website, and the article’s URL becomes like this (if you have SEF enabled): http://www.yourjoomlawebsite.com/uncategorized/privacy-policy As you can see, the name of the category, which is uncategorized, is automatically added to the URL of the […]
We often do Joomla installation for our clients – usually the process is really fast. We first upload the zip file to the server, we extract it there, we create the database, and then we point our browser to http://ourclientjoomlawebsite.com, and we follow the installation process! That’s it! The process was always smooth for all […]
On one Sunday afternoon, you might decide to spend a lot of time browsing your Joomla website, just to make sure that all the pages are working fine. 15 minutes later, you see the following error: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 5298178 bytes) What happened for you to […]
We got a call yesterday from a potential client telling us that he wants to create an E-Commerce website and he heard that he can easily do that with Joomla. He wanted to do the job by himself and so he asked us if we can explain for him the process from scratch. And so […]
SQL Injection is the most dangerous hacking techniques out there. With SQL injection, a malicious attack can drop you a table or even a whole database in a few seconds and with a very simply command through your website. In this day and age, it is unacceptable for any website to have a SQL injection […]
Warning: This post is about removing content from your database, specifically your VirtueMart e-commerce/store tables. If this is not what you want then please stop reading now. itoctopus claims no responsibility (neither explicit nor implicit) whatsoever if you accidentally remove data that you later need. Before you begin you need to download a backup and […]
Yesterday, we worked on a website that was using Joomla 1.0.0. The owner of the website had three problems: Problem #1: The website was displaying “Your are not authorized to view this resource” on the homepage. Well, it wasn’t technically the homepage, as the website had a flash introduction that was redirecting to an article […]