Every once in a while we get a unique project – a project that requires us to dig into every hidden feature in Joomla to know how we can execute it the “clean” way, without making core modifications and without creating tons and tons of code that could’ve been saved if we just used one […]

While working on a Swiss website today, we noticed that every time we clicked on the HTML button in TinymCE, the browser tried to download source_editor.htm (which is a TinyMCE file). At first, we thought that there was a problem with the browser, so we tried another one but we had the exact same problem. […]

Now, don’t get us wrong, we are totally pro website security. In fact, we have written so much on Joomla security to prove that. However, we think that sometimes security is applied to the wrong place. An example of this is running a whole Joomla website in HTTPS mode. For those who don’t know, HTTPS […]

We know – that’s a very long title for a post, but we couldn’t think of a better title that would explain what this post is about. In any case… We got an email near the end of the day yesterday from a new client – he was complaining that his website, although running Joomla […]

One of the companies that we regularly do work for complained about a sudden slowness issue with their Joomla website. They said that their Joomla websites was taking about half a minute to load. So, we tested the website, and it was taking exactly 30 seconds to load – and that was on each attempt. […]

If you’re using JCE (which is, by far, the best rich text editor in Joomla) you might have run into an issue where, when you insert an iframe into the body of the article and then you click on “Save”, the iframe disappears. In fact, this is default behavior so nearly everyone who’s using JCE […]

At itoctopus, we always provide solutions. But the solutions that we are really proud of are the simple solutions, the solutions that don’t involve a lot of work to implement, the solutions that are clear and that actually work! Today, we are proud to announce that we have created a Joomla 2.5 module that will […]

If you perform a search on your regular Joomla website, you will notice that the search results will only display a maximum of 50 matches, even though you might have more. So, why is that and how to fix it? To answer the “why” part of the question, Joomla is a heavy CMS, and, obviously, […]

We love K2 (we actually said that before) and we think that it’s a better content manager than Joomla’s own content manager. In fact, we are increasingly helping companies migrating the content of their Joomla websites from Joomla to K2. However, there are always little issues with K2, which is perfectly acceptable considering its huge […]

We have been securing/cleaning Joomla websites for so long that we have identified the three-step process a malicious attacker performs to hack a Joomla website: The attacker injects a PHP file in the images directory. The attacker then replicates the PHP script into other directories where it’s under the radar. This strategy ensures that the […]

Yesterday (yes – we work on Sundays!), we were moving a Joomla website hosted on a Plesk version 9 server to a Plesk version 11 server – the transfer was pretty smooth, except that when we tested the website on the new server, we got a blank page. Restarting Apache didn’t solve the problem (although […]

One of our clients called us today and told us that the captcha below JComments comments is not working properly. She said that it works on page load, but once she hits the refresh button below the captcha, the captcha image disappears. Hmmm! We did a long investigation and we finally discovered that the reason […]

A company that we deal with runs a very large Joomla website mainly discussing law topics. The company complained that Joomla’s search doesn’t address a very common human issue: spelling mistakes. For example, if you are trying to search for Lawyer and you searched for Lauyer, then you won’t find anything using Joomla’s search, this […]

A couple of days ago we were working a skeleton template that is used to display some articles in lightbox popups. The template was very straightforward and had a few lines of code and had only one module position. We created the xml manifest file and then we packaged the template into a zip file […]