If you’re using sh404SEF, then, first, we feel sorry for you! But second, we have good news! We have created a script that allows you to batch change links in sh404SEF. For example, say you have 5,000 links on your website that contain the pattern my-products/, and say you want to change my-products/ to products/ […]
A new phenomenon that we’re noticing lately is that a user with a username “JoomlaSupport” is registering automatically on Joomla sites that allow user registration. Once that user registers, the owner of the Joomla website is contacted by a shady company, (surprisingly) called “JoomlaSupport”, pretending to be Joomla’s Official Support and telling him that his […]
We have been working with Joomla for nearly a decade now (actually, more than a decade if you include the time we worked with Mambo), and we know it inside out. Joomla is a great CMS, and, in our humble opinion, it is the best CMS. Having said that, there is still room for improvement, […]
Although K2 is one of the most used and powerful Joomla extensions out there, there is very little documentation to do even the basic things with it. For example, how can one generate an SEF link to a K2 item based on the ID of that item? That’s why, at itoctopus, we decided to share […]
Custom HTML modules are by far the most used (and most loved) modules in Joomla. They’re very easy to use, they do the job, and they are extremely light. However, there is one problem with Custom HTML modules that stops them from being perfect, it’s that they always encapsulate the user’s content (e.g. the content […]
We are seeing more and more Joomla administrators doing the following when they have some issues on their Joomla websites that they cannot resolve themselves: They create a Joomla website from a fresh install (same version of the one that they currently have). They install some or all of the extensions they have on the […]
At itoctopus, we love to share our Joomla work with our readers. We think that by doing this we do our part to ensure that Joomla remains at the helm when it comes to CMS solutions. Why do we do that, you might be wondering? Well, because we believe, and rightly so, that Joomla’s success […]
If you’re an avid reader of our blog, you will probably know that we love K2 – no – make that we’re in love with K2. It just makes our lives much easier and happier: we can extend it, we can easily migrate from one version of K2 to another, it doesn’t suffer from the […]
Note: This post only applies to Joomla websites using MySQL. Another note: This post only applies to Joomla 2.5 and lower. Joomla 3.x uses the InnoDB engine across the board by default. The majority of crashes on Joomla websites are caused by database issues, in particular, database corruption issues. For example, if the table #__session […]
We are recently getting a barrage of Joomla 3.2.1 websites that are hacked and need to be fixed. Obviously, someone cashed in on the recently announced vulnerability on Joomla 3.2.1, and fast! We are saying someone (and not some people), because 90% of those hacked websites have the exact same hack: the Google hack! (Or […]
We were commissioned, earlier this week, to integrate reCAPTCHA with JComments on a website belonging to a super-major news company. Large companies usually have 2 environments, one called dev (for development), and one called prod (for production). Our job was to make the reCAPTCHA work on the development environment, and then, once everything’s OK, move […]