Has Joomla Finally Reached Maturity?

Back in January 2011 (7 years and 1 month ago), people started migrating from Joomla to WordPress or Drupal in droves. The main reason for this mass exodus was the absence of a non-technical migration script from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.6 which left many Joomla administrators with 3 options: 1) pay a lot of […]

How We Switched a Large Joomla Website to HTTPS

Back in August 2014, Google stated on their official webmasters blog that their ranking algorithm will start giving an advantage to HTTPS sites over HTTP sites. Back then, many people simply did not care, and did not switch their sites to use HTTPS. However, in the beginning of the last autumn (“the beginning of the […]

“1881 – Operation not allowed when innodb_forced_recovery > 0.” Error on Joomla Site

A new client called us yesterday and told us that the website of the company he works for is down. He told us that it was displaying a weird error. We immediately visited the website, and we noticed that it was displaying the below error (in red): “1881 – Operation not allowed when innodb_forced_recovery > […]

“AJAX Loading Error: error” when Updating Your Joomla Website

A regular client who subcontracts work to us emailed us that he wasn’t able to update the website of one of his clients from Joomla 3.8.3 to Joomla 3.8.5. He told us that the update would fail halfway through with the following error: AJAX Loading Error: error Of course, the first thing that we thought […]

Your Company IP Is Blocked from Accessing Your Joomla Site? Read This!

Around 10 AM EST yesterday morning, we got a call from a large company telling us that their Joomla website is down as none of their staff members are able to access it. We checked and we were able to access the website. The first thing that came into our minds was that their company […]