Many Joomla administrators know how to hide hit tracking on a Joomla article – they can do this simply by clicking on the article title in the Article Manager, and then clicking on Options button on the top right, and then setting the value of Show Hits to Hide. Setting this value will automatically hide […]

On some occasions, you may wish to redirect specific users to specific pages when they login to your website. For example, if a user hasn’t logged in for a long time, then, you may want to redirect him to a specific page where he can see the latest additions to your website. Another example would […]

Ask any programmer what kind of work he dreads (and dislikes) most, and he’ll invariably answer you: “It has to be manual data entry”. Since we are programmers, then that answer applies to us as well. But hey, life isn’t always about doing the things that you love, sometimes, you’ll need to do things that […]

One of our clients, for whom we have just migrated a Joomla website for her small business, called us today and told us that she wanted to know how to add a new menu item to the Main Menu to point to a new article she has just created. We emailed her (while still on […]

So far this month, we have had 5 cases where all the users in a Joomla website had their usernames and passwords updated to the same value. In other words, all the usernames in those Joomla websites were set to admin, and all the passwords were set to an identical, md5 value. This type of […]

We are currently having an increasing number of cases where the 404 page – just the 404 page – is hacked. For example, when someone visits a page that doesn’t exist (on the Joomla website), he is either redirected to an obscene website or he just sees some obscene content on the Joomla website (or […]

Our clients (with previously hacked Joomla websites that we fixed) often ask us: “What can one do to have ultimate security on a Joomla website?” Our short and concise answer would be: “Have a development server and a production server. The development server is the one where you do the updates (and it’s usually behind […]

Cyber Monday is a huge online event in North America (the US and Canada). For those who don’t know what it is exactly, it is the Monday immediately after Thanksgiving, and during that day, online retailers offer huge discounts on their products. Cyber Monday has gotten extremely popular since its inception back in 2005 and […]