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Fixing JSON Data Errors After Updating to Joomla 3.6.3
How to fix fatal errors related to JSON decoding when updating you Joomla core version.
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Site Sends no Mail After Updating to Joomla 3.2
Unfortunately I was on the receiving end of this bug before finding out that it existed. Apologies to anyone trying to download my extensions – I have just enabled all new user accounts. Updating to Joomla 3.2 introduces a new option which allows you to disable email sending globally. You can find it in Global
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Joomla Stalling at Installation Stage | PHP Session Storage
There has been a few reports about not being able to install Joomla because it stalls at the installation and you can’t get past the first installer step. Whilst there are many reasons why this could happen, most times I have come accross it it has been down to the server setup and Joomla not
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How to get Joomla’s Current Site Language
Sometimes there is a need to get the current content/site language to use in other places. An example being when you want to set social share buttons to display in the same language as the site. Luckily Joomla makes this easy for us.
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Using JLayout to Override Global Views in Joomla 3
Global layouts were introduced in Joomla 3 so that they are no longer limited to a particular view or extension. In this example I am going to create a new view for the tags component which will output a plain comma separated list so that I can use it in a facebook opengraph tag.
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People Register to Web Site When There is no Registration Form
The launch of a new site left me really confused a couple of weeks ago. The launch went better than expected, but a few days later people were registering on the site, which would have been great, except that there was no registration form on any of our pages. At first I jumped to the
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Joomla Article Url from ID
URL to preview joomla articles If you want to preview an atricle without adding a menu item you can use this url and add the item ID of the article on the end. index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= If you would like it to display the modules assigned to a menu item then you can add: &Itemid= using the
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Remove Joomla Generator Tag
Rather than hacking the core files, which can be replaced with an update, place this line in your template index.php file above the </head> tag. <?php $this->setGenerator(‘Changethisline’); ?> Replace Changethisline with whatever you want to show or just leave it empty.
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Remove Joomla! is Free Software Text from the Admin Area
To change or remove the “Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.” links from the joomla administration area we need to edit 3 files: administrator/templates/khepri/cpanel.php administrator/templates/khepri/index.php administrator/templates/khepri/login.php
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Remove Numbers from Joomla Category View
By default joomla shows a number by each article when listing all the titles in a category view layout. Here’s how to remove the numbers…
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Remove the ‘Powered by xmap’ Link
How to remove the xmap ‘Powered by Xmap!‘ link from your HTML site map.