A Very Scary VirtueMart Exploit, or Something Else?

A new client called us a couple of hours ago and told us that he had a problem on the VirtueMart store on his Joomla website. He said that early in the morning a client called him and asked him about the status of his one week old order which he paid for through PayPal. […]

Are You Unable to Edit Your Joomla Articles? Read This!

Note: This post is extremely advanced. Only try to implement the below if you’re a solid developer and after backing up the Joomla website (database + filesystem). We had a weird case this morning. A client called us and told us that her staff were able to edit certain articles only once every day – […]

“Application Instantiation Error: Table ‘db.#__session’ doesn’t exist” Error in Joomla: 5 Possible Reasons

Note: You must replace #__ in the post below with your database alias which is the value of the variable $dbprefix that is defined in the configuration.php file of your Joomla website. Another note: Always backup your Joomla database before making any modifications to it. A not so uncommon fatal error on Joomla websites is […]

Using Apache’s Substitute Module to Remove the Joomla Meta Generator Tag

At itoctopus, we love doing things in different ways, this helps us broaden our horizon and it also allows us to provide several alternative solutions for our readers, who may prefer one method over another. In a previous post, we have discussed, in details, 2 methods for hiding the Joomla version. The first one consisted […]

“Blocked loading mixed active content” when Using Joomla’s SEF in HTTPS Mode

Yesterday noon, a new client contacted us and told us that he was having problem when using HTTPS on his Joomla website (the website in question was using the latest Joomla version, which is 3.6.4). He said many images did not appear, and it seemed as if no CSS was applied to the website whatsoever. […]

“The most recent request was denied because it contained an invalid security token. Please refresh the page and try again.” Error when Updating a Joomla Website

While trying to update the Joomla website of a regular client of ours, we were faced with the following error: “The most recent request was denied because it contained an invalid security token. Please refresh the page and try again.” If you are an avid reader of our blog, then you will know that the […]

JCE Editor Crashing on a Specific Joomla Article

We think very highly of JCE and we have huge respect for its developers. We recommend it to our clients and we always install it on the Joomla websites that we fully manage. With the exception of very few quirks, our experience (and that of our clients) is very smooth with JCE. The very few […]

“Fatal error: Class ‘JFeedItem’ not found” When Overriding the Joomla Core

Note: This is an advanced post which mentions an unstable extension at the time of writing (November 2016). We suggest you avoid overriding the Joomla core if you’re not comfortable with your programming skills. If you need help with overriding the Joomla core, then you can always contact us! Until very recently, we used to […]

How to Create a Custom HTML Module in Joomla’s Backend

Sometimes, large companies have some text that they want to display somewhere on the backend of their website for their staff. The text might consist of editing instructions, a legal disclaimer, or a general announcement. Now, on the frontend, it is very easy to display such a text by using a Custom HTML module (nowadays, […]