We were busy most of the month doing emergency updates for our clients since Joomla had several critical updates in a row. Most updates went smoothly, but several didn’t. One update, for example, caused the following error to display on the homepage: DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (Never) at position 0 (N): The timezone […]

A new client of ours emailed us and told us that whenever he visits his website, he’s seeing the following error: The connection was reset. The above error is displayed when he’s using FireFox. When he uses Chrome, his website also crashes but with the following (different) error: No data received Now, we worked on […]

Note: This post is slightly oriented for programmers. We just wanted to let you know before reading it in case you found it a bit too technical for your taste! Another note: The solution presented in this post requires a core modification since it is addressing a bug in Joomla’s core. Proceed with caution and […]

A client of ours, running a Joomla 3.4.6 website and not wanting to update to the seemingly rushed 3.4.7 asked us to update the PHP instance powering his website from PHP 5.4.44 (which has a known exploit when it comes to the serialization and unserialization of data) to close all known exploits on his server. […]

Note: The guide described in this post, although straightforward, is probably better performed by a system administrator as there’s always a chance of a glitch while tinkering with the server’s Apache and PHP installations. Last week, we were commissioned to create a microsite for a large clients of ours. The microsite consisted of copying a […]

This very morning, the head administrator of a Joomla intranet website belonging to an extremely reputable university in the US Northeast (that university is a client of ours), called us and told us that whenever he goes to the Article Manager page on Joomla’s backend, he sees a blank page (despite the fact that his […]