Trivia: The title of this post is inspired by the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, which is somehow unique (in our humble opinion), but please don’t unfriend us if you don’t like it. The notion of aging backwards is fascinating, original, and, to some extent, true. While examining the Joomla website of a […]

Warning: The code changes in this post are in the core. Proceed with caution (and at your own risk) and keep in mind that future Joomla updates may wipe out the below changes. In a previous post, we have explained how we resolved performance issues caused by pagination on a large Joomla website. The results […]

Rumors spread around quickly, and the latest rumor, besides the one that states that the world is not flat, is that Joomla 3.5 is 50% faster than Joomla 3.4.8. To be more specific, the rumor states that Joomla 3.5 is 50% faster because, unlike Joomla 3.4.8, it can run under PHP 7. So, the rumor […]

One of the things that we do daily on the websites that we fully manage is check which files were changed in the past 48 hours. Doing this helps us catch files that were maliciously modified, it also helps us check whether the client’s employees have uploaded files that they shouldn’t have uploaded, or have […]

Warning: The solution presented in this post consists of a core modification, which means a future Joomla update may wipe it out. You have been warned! If you check the MySQL slow query log of a large Joomla website, you will probably see something like the below query: SELECT a.id, a.title, a.alias, a.introtext, a.fulltext, a.checked_out, […]