SH404sef and pagination in Joomla and SOBI

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Written by Marco Conti Wednesday, 24 June 2009 12:50

I just recently discovered that sh404sef has a long standing bug with the Joomla and SOBI pagination system.  The pagination numbers create URLs that 404sef is unable to handle and therefore no matter what page number is clicked it will always display the same page.

I am currently researching the topic and I am trying to find a solution, but it looks like for the moment the only real fix is to change SEF component. Artio SEF, an old stanby seems to be working fine with the pagination.

It is a real pity because I have been using SH404sef almost exclusively for the past couple of years and finding this bug is very distressing.

If you know of a solution, please comment below or contact me, otherwise I will post the results on this blog.

Update June 25, 2009

Unfortunately, no good news so far on this topic. However, if pagination is not very critical,  a temporary fix would be to allow more entry per page in SOBI therefore eliminating the need for pagination. That's what I am doing for the site until a better solution can be found.

Joomla 1.5 admin menus disappear

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Written by Marco Conti Wednesday, 26 November 2008 14:47

Has your administration page in Joomla 1.5 suddenly lost the ability to display tabs, drop-down menus and navigation? You could be a victim of the "Disappearing /media/ folder. When using "lazyBackUp" for Joomla 1.5 sometimes, and seemingly out of the blue, your menus in the administration website will stop working at all.

The cause is uncertain at this moment, but the cure is pretty straightforward: upload the /media/ directory to your site from a backup (or from a fresh installation if you don't have a backup) and the menus will work once again.

I will keep you posted if I find a better cure for this issue.

Joomla: Finding a good Vertical CSS menu with drop downs

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Written by Marco Conti Friday, 21 November 2008 14:31

The Problem: There are plenty of horizontal, unordered list based, pure CSS menus for Joomla, but there are no standard compliant Vertical CSS menus available.

The Fix: Superfish is your solution. Also, go to Media65.com read the tutorial and download the Superfish menu module for Joomla 1.5.
NOTE: It makes a dandy horizontal css menu too.

Thunderbird: after import emails vanish from folders

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Written by Marco Conti Friday, 21 November 2008 14:26

The Problem: After importing emails and custom folders from MS Outlook, the Thunderbird custom folders appear empty.

The Fix: In Thunderbird, select the account and go to Properties. Select "Do not delete messages from server". All your emails will reappear.

You may need to r-click on the folders and choose Properties: Rebuild Index

Joomla - JCE Editor rewrites script and object tag

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Written by Marco Conti Friday, 21 November 2008 14:17

The problem: In Joomla 1.5.8 after an update from 1.5.7 the JCE editor strips the and tags from the code for a video file. The end result is gibberish.

The fix: Go to Content->Article Manager Click on Parameters.
Scroll to the bottom of the parameters popup and select 'Registered' in the 'Filter Groups' (ie : the user type that WILL be filtered) section and check the 'Blacklist (Default) ' option in the 'Filter Type'.

Thanks to Ryan of joomlacontenteditor.net and creator of the JCE Text editor for Joomla for this fix.