At itoctopus, we test our clients’ Joomla websites constantly, so much that we have developed Joomla plugins that will help us in the testing. One of the plugins that we have developed and that we constantly use is the Super Login plugin, which allows us to login as any user to the Joomla website with […]

We had a very curious case today: an occasional customer of ours emailed us and told us that for the past few months they weren’t able to see the administrator menu in the backend. They temporarily addressed the problem by installing an extension called Admin Menu Manager, which provided an alternative for generating the admin […]

A substantial chunk of our work consists of optimizing Joomla websites. As such, we have gathered over the years a vast experience in that particular field and we almost know every variation of the problem as well as its causes. In this post, we would like to share our knowledge with our readers by providing […]

We had a client today complaining that when he clicks on the New button in Joomla’s Article Manager page, he has to wait for a long time for the Add New Article page to appear (the problem also happens when he clicks on an existing article in the Article Manager page to edit it). We […]

Note: The solution presented in this post requires a core modification. As you may probably know by now, core modifications are delicate and may be wiped out with the next Joomla update. Please proceed with caution if you elect to implement the below. If you’re running a high traffic Joomla website, then you probably have […]

Late last night, a new client called us and told us that he can’t login to his Joomla website; that he’s being redirected to the login page with no errors when he logs in with either correct or wrong credentials. Of course, we’ve seen this issue several times, and so we thought it was an […]