I came across an interesting problem with a module in Joomla! 1.7 which appeared to have available settings in the parameters of the module, but they were not showing in the back end of Joomla's administration portal.

Almost as soon as I wrote an article about the Joomla! migration to 1.6, 1.7 or 1.8, we have the first public release of Joomla! 1.7 made available for general use.

With the long anticipated release of 1.6 in January 2011 many people are confused about whether they should be migrating now, or waiting for the anticipated 1.7 release (July 2011) or even 1.8 (January 2012).

A long time ago I wrote an article explaining how to install an update/upgrade patch for your Joomla! installation, and while a lot of the information is still perfectly relevant today, I thought it was about time to write an update, given the wide range of technologies there are available now to not only keep your site up to date, but also advise you of any changes - potentially letting you know if something untoward is happening.

Virya Technologies are starting a series of videos helping newcomers to Joomla! get started - and we'd like your feedback about how we can help you!

In an attempt to leave our respective comfort zones, Ruth and I have been trying each others specialism in their spare time. Ruth's been having adventures installing and running a GNU/Linux based system, and I've been designing and building a site using Joomla! 1.5

Amongst various issues I've encountered, I found that enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URL's broke my new site. Rather than a nicely formatted site, resplendant with images the site returned plain text in a column on the right hand side of a white page!

In an attempt to leave our respective comfort zones, Ruth and I have been trying each others specialism in their spare time. Ruth's been having adventures installing and running a GNU/Linux based system, and I've been designing and building a site using Joomla! 1.5

Amongst various issues I've encountered, I found that enabling Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URL's broke my new site. Rather than a nicely formatted site, resplendant with images the site returned plain text in a column on the right hand side of a white page!

After spending quite a while trying to figure out why Virtuemart reviews on a client's site were having line breaks/soft returns inserted apparently at random, I managed to track down the code that was responsible.

I came across this error today when editing an article in K2 - every time I saved the article I was getting this timeout error.

After a bit of googling I found several references to content editors adding code into the article text, which the filter tries to clean up - hence causing the timeout errors.

We are really excited to announce the dates for this year's Joomla!Day UK - 30th and 31st October 2010.

Problem: Simpleviewer gallery on a Joomla! site displaying white crosses instead of gallery images

While some people are happy to publicly display the Joomla! Copyright, it is not required and it may not be appropriate on some sites (or may need altering to show different information).  Here's how you do it!

I'd done this a thousand times before, but had a bit of a moment and couldn't remember which file to edit.  Having searched the Virtuemart Forums with no joy, I set about some detective work to sniff out where the file resided and what needed removing!

We are often approached, as are many Joomla! developers, by those unfortunate enough to have their websites exploited for one reason or another, asking us to fix the immediate problem and also secure their site against future attacks.  Needless to say this can be quite costly, not ownly in our fees but also in terms of business downtime and potential loss of clients visiting your sites, and loss of confidence (particularly with Ecommerce sites).  Here are some basic tips to help you secure your site and prevent this happening in the first place.

Are you sick of receiving spam submissions on your Joomla! website forms?  Do you have spam bots sign up for accounts and post on your forums?  There are several options available to you nowadays to work against these pesky spammers!

GPL stands for General Public License and is sometimes referred to as GNU GPL.  GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix" and is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software.  GNU was developed by Richard Stallman, and was provided under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  Although the GNU GPL was originally intended for the GNU operating system, it was quickly adopted by lots of other free software.  It has undergone several revisions, and there are a few "sub-types", with the latest version of GNU-GPL being version 3.

If you've secured your site using JSecure, you'll know that you need to browse to /administrator/?keyword to access your admin back-end.  What happens if you forget the keyword, or something goes wrong with the jSecure plugin?

NOTE: THIS ARTICLE HAS AN UPDATE AVAILABLE HERE

The number of people I see posting on forums asking for support on components who are running versions of Joomla! sometimes 4 or more versions out of date is really quite alarming - when I point out to them the error of their ways, often the first question is "Well how do I upgrade to the latest version?".  Hopefully this article should help clarify the process involved with installing the latest patches for Joomla! and help you stay up to date!

Joomla! docs has a full walk-through of this process, which is where most of the information in this article is from.