At itoctopus, one of the things we are fascinated by is security – we are always researching new ways to improve the security of our managed websites. Our Joomla honeypot experiment, for example, was a huge success and we implemented it for our major clients. It also helped us better understand attack patterns, which, in […]

We are getting calls from Joomla administrators telling us that they are seeing a bizarre warning in the backend of their Joomla sites after updating their sites to 3.7.x. Here is a sample warning: Your PHP version, 5.6.30, is only receiving security fixes at this time from the PHP project. This means your PHP version […]

RSForm Pro is one of the most powerful extensions out there. You can create any type of form with it, and associate any action you can think of when the form is submitted, whether through plugins or through embedded PHP code. This makes RSForm ideal for integrating Joomla with payment gateways (such as Authorize, PayPal, […]

A client with a huge Arabic news website called us on April 26th (the day Joomla 3.7 was released) and told us that he’s not able to save articles after updating to Joomla 3.7. He told us that article saving was timing out, and urged us to take a look. As usual, we obliged. We […]

Joomla 3.7 is a weird iteration of the famous CMS – it seems that quite a few important things were half baked or not completely tested. For example, the new routing functionality that was meant to be completely revamped in Joomla 3.7 was supposedly scratched from that version, to be later introduced in a future […]