If you’re not using a 3rd party extension to generate your SEF links, then most likely you are already annoyed by the presence of the article ID in article URLs. In fact, most Joomla administrators use a 3rd party SEF extension to generate their links instead of Joomla’s built-in SEF tool because of this particular […]

A major website that we manage used sh404SEF heavily for SEF links. Although we don’t think highly of sh404SEF, we were hesitant to remove it (despite its many issues) because the website was highly dependent on it. However, we were courageous enough to make the brave decision (OK, now we’re flattering ourselves) to dump sh404SEF […]

If you’re using the “Email this link to a friend” feature in Joomla, then you might have probably noticed that the popup window that opens when clicking on the link has fixed width and height, which means that if you ever decide to change its template, then it’s very possible that those fixed width and […]

A major healtchare client of ours emailed us yesterday and told us that they’re getting reports from some visitors that their Joomla website (the healthcare website) is blocked because it is compromised. One of those reports stated that it was Websense that labeled the website as compromised. So, we immediately went to csi.websense.com and we […]

One of the most annoying, and needless plugins on Joomla is the email cloaking content plugin. For those of you who don’t know what this plugin is, it translates any email (a string that matches an email pattern) to JavaScript obfuscated code in order to prevent spammers from picking up that email and ultimately spamming […]

One of our clients called us today and told us that his Joomla website was slow to load. We checked the website immediately, and not only it was slow, it was extremely slow. It was taking about 20 seconds to load. We went through the following checklist: Was the website hacked?: It wasn’t. In fact, […]