How to Password Protect the Backend of a Joomla Website with .htpasswd (and .htaccess)

Early last week, we had a case where a malicious extension was subtly installed on the Joomla website for one of our clients. Luckily, our extra security measures prevented actual harm, but still, we were confident that if the person who installed that extension was a bit more persistent, he could have wiped out the […]

Unable to Delete Items in Joomla’s Trash

Note: This post applies to Joomla 2.5 only. If you’re running Joomla 3.x and you can’t delete articles from Joomla’s trash, then please let us know in the comment section of this post as the below solution will not work for you. Yes – we know – our regular readers might say that we have […]

Why It’s Important to Have Contiguous IDs in Joomla Tables

One of our newer clients called us yesterday morning and told us that his Joomla website was running very slow. So we checked his website and we immediately knew the cause of the problem, Mosets! If you are a regular reader of our blog, then you probably know that we don’t think highly of this […]

How to Display the Time for the Last Logged In Users

A client called us earlier this week and told us that when he logs in to his Joomla website and he checks which users are logged in to the website, he only sees the login date. Given that all his users login nearly every day, just seeing the date wasn’t enough for him. He also […]