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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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How to Find the Full Joomla Version in the Site Files
Sometimes, for whatever reason, I need to find out the exact version of Joomla a site is running without being able to access the administration area. Here’s where to find the version number in the file system.
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Adding a Compile LESS Button to a Joomla 3.2 Template
There was no big announcement, but you may have noticed that the Joomla 3.2.2 templates area now has a compile LESS button when viewing a less file. I had a look at how to bring this into a custom template without having to use a plugin, giving you the possibility to compile a templates less
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How to Remove Joomla’s Canonical Tag Without Hacking the Core
For reasons detailed in an earlier post about why Joomla canonical urls are not implemented correctly it may be that you want to remove them. That’s pretty easy by hacking the core, but safer to unset the tag in your template so the changes don’t get wiped out on an upgrade.
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The Problem With Joomla’s Canonical URL Links
Joomla 3 introduced a new feature of canonical url links. There is no way to turn it off in settings, which wouldn’t be a problem if it worked correctly, but unfortunately it doesn’t. It has been plagued by problems since it was introduced and has led to some sites taking a massive hit on visitor
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The Easiest way to add Google Authorship to Joomla Articles
I wrote about this a while ago in my Joomla microdata article. It has struck me since that it was complete overkill to add authorship in that way and can be done without any code changes at all, just using the standard contacts component. The reasoning is, that you don’t have to link each article
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Adding Microdata to Joomla Articles
Google has been using microdata for quite a while now and adding it to your website can help with clickthrough rates from search engine results. The most obvious is Google’s own authorship markup (not strictly microdata per se) where linking to your Google+ profile adds your profile image to pages in search results, but there
/ 4 min read / Joomla
Adding Facebook Opengraph META Tags to a Joomla 3 Template
There are hundreds of plugins, modules and components which add Facebook opengraph tags to your articles, but is it really necessary to add an extension for the sake of a couple of meta tags. There was a time when Facebook ignored your standard meta tags and insisted that you add a specific opengraph tags for things like page title
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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.
/ 2 min read / Joomla
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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Mobile blogging with boomla 3 ;)
The future is here, the future is now. Boomla 3 has been sent back from the future to fitful our mobile bogging needs. I’ve been away for the weekend so what better time to sample a piece of the future. And what better time to test android s predicted words features.
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What is the xreference Meta and Joomla External Reference Field?
The reference field is not something that is new in Joomla 1.6 and up. Joomla 1.5 had a ‘Key Reference’ field in the articles advanced parameters tab. What is different is where the field is now found and the way the data entered is utilised. In Joomla 1.5 the content of the key reference field
/ 3 min read / Joomla
Stripping Joomla 3
So Joomla 3 has been around for a while now and seems stable enough that you can use it for production sites without having to check up on it everyday to see if anything new has broken. And with a new site comes a new template. As always, I wanted it to be fast loading,