Note: The solution presented in this post consists of a core modification. Core modifications may be wiped out with future Joomla updates. Please keep that in mind should you decide to implement it. Last Thursday, a regular reader of a client’s website emailed our client and told them that whenever he likes an article on […]

When you start delving into the wonderful world of Joomla, you will soon know that it has many mysteries; some of which you are curious to know everything about, others of which you prefer to leave alone. In the latter category, we can think of one mystery, the Redirect Manager‘s Advanced Mode. Before explaining what […]

Note: This post is very advanced, and requires some Linux shell experience. If you feel that your experience is not up to the suggestions below, then we suggest that you ask some experts to do it for you. Another note: Please read the post to the end before performing any work. Recently, Apache‘s ModSecurity has […]

We had a curious case last week. A client called us and told us that his website’s K2 RSS feed was not working. He was using FeedBurner, and he told us that it (FeedBurner) was displaying content that was weeks old instead of displaying the fresh content from his website. So, we checked the website […]

If you’re an avid reader of our blog, then you may already know that we’re not huge fans of sh404SEF. In fact, we have gained expertise in getting rid of it on large websites. So when something wrong happens to a website that has sh40SEF installed, we immediately suspect this notorious extension, and usually, we […]

A client of hours with a high traffic Joomla website called us and told us that everyday during peak hours, their website slowed to a crawl. So, as usual, we ssh’d to their server and we checked the slow query log and we didn’t notice anything unusual, which was unusual (even though the long-query-time was […]