This past weekend, a client of ours from Kuwait emailed us and told us that the backend of his Joomla website is displaying a blank page. He told us that the login page to the backend was working, but, as soon as you login, you will see a blank page. He also told us that […]

At itoctopus, we have a strong passion for optimizing Joomla websites, that’s why we always research new ways that may improve their performance. We mostly focus on optimizing the database because sometimes a simple database optimization can have a huge impact on the overall performance of the Joomla website. This time it was no different. […]

Yesterday evening (or very early in the morning today), we updated the Joomla website of a new client from Joomla 3.1.5 to Joomla 3.7.5 (we are waiting for 3.8.2 to be released to update to 3.8). The update was really nothing out of the ordinary: we did see some issues but we fixed them immediately […]

Note: This a very lengthy post. So, it’ll be a good idea to read it first thing in the morning when your mind is fresh and while you’re having your wake up coffee (or tea, or milk, or cold water, or nothing). Another note: This is a very technical and a very advanced post. It […]

A new client emailed us that he was seeing the following error on his Joomla website: Error displaying the error page He told us that he started seeing the above error when the hosting company moved his website from one server to another. He told us that the hosting company debugged the issue for a […]

A few weeks ago, we wrote a post in which we admitted that we haven’t discovered fire. This morning, however, we had a new discovery akin to discovering fire, and it was a very clean, very elegant, very lovely method to check if a user is a super user. It all happened by coincidence when […]