Beware: Some Hosts Are Extorting Joomla Website Owners

We had a call from one of our clients yesterday – she told us that her hosting company shut down her website because it was hacked and told her that they can’t reactivate the website unless the website is cleaned up or unless she subscribes to a security plan that costs $99/month. Our client ran […]

5 Useless Extensions that Must Be Removed from Joomla

We are firm believers that Joomla must be a very light product. We think that all useless extensions should be removed from Joomla. Yes, you heard that right, there are few extensions in Joomla that are useless and must be removed, and they are: Banners: If there is one extension that has been consistently used […]

“0 – SQL=” Error in Joomla

A new client called us yesterday evening and told us that he was seeing the following error on some pages of his Joomla website: 0 – SQL= The error was in the traditional red layout, immediately followed by the classic “You may not be able to visit this page because of…” message. The page where […]

A Simple Joomla Module to Display the Number of Tweets for the Current Page

At itoctopus, we like to share our extensions for the benefit of the Joomla users and the Joomla ecosystem. One of the extensions we have developed recently is a module that displays the number of Tweets for the current page on a Joomla website. The module is super simple. All you need to do is […]

Why We Don’t Recommend Using Akeeba for Backing Up Joomla Sites

One of the most used Joomla extensions is Akeeba Backup, but we don’t recommend it to our clients. Why? Well, because we don’t think it’s a good solution, and we don’t think that backing (and restoring) a Joomla website should be done from within Joomla, and here are 7 reasons why we think that: Akeeba […]

Hey Joomla 2.5 Administrators, It’s Time to Migrate to Joomla 3

If you’re using Joomla 2.5, then we have news for you, it is now time to migrate to Joomla 3. “Why?”, we hear you ask. Well, because by the end of December, Joomla 2.5 will no longer be officially support it (we will still support it at itoctopus though). This means that Joomla 2.5 will […]

How to Show Published Articles by Default in Joomla’s Article Manager

Note: The solution described in this post requires you to make a simple modification to a couple of Joomla core files. If you are not comfortable with that, then please contact us (we can do this with a plugin). If you have been using Joomla for a long time, then you are probably a bit […]