Home 
Conticreative Blogs The Joomla Blog
Conticreative Blogs The Joomla Blog
The Conticreative Joomla Blog
Subscribe via email
A blog about the Joomla CMS with tips, tricks and evaluation of Open Source and commercial add-ons.
In this blog you are as likely to find a video tutorial about a specific Joomla Extension as you are to find an article about a recently discovered bug and its fix.
I write this blog to give back t the Joomla community and as such I invite you to let me know what you think and participate with your own thoughts and comments.
Assigning Joomla templates - URL syntax and sh404sef compatibility
Blogs - The Conticreative Joomla Blog
Written by Marco Conti Saturday, 26 June 2010 12:31
Joomla has the ability to assign any template to any given page (as long as that page is linked from a menu) which is a very useful feature. However, often this trick does not work very well with sh404SEF turned on. At least not with the version currently in stable release (A new Beta version is coming out and I'll bring you a full review - hopefully in print and video - as soon as I have a chance to test it).
The other day I had a need to create an alternate template I could assign to a single page in the site. I needed a full set of modules to appear on the left column where normally the navigation and several other modules reside. Doing this is possible with a number of extensions, mostly modules like NoNumber.nl Advanced Module Manager, Metamod and others. However, in some cases swapping the template itself can be a more manageable solution (interestingly, the developer of Metamod has an extension called "MetaTemplate" that may have helped as well). In any case, for various reasons it was the solution I needed.
Read more
Add comment (6)
Hits: 8569
Jomla Vulnerable Extension list via Email
Blogs - The Conticreative Joomla Blog
Written by Marco Conti Monday, 21 June 2010 20:01
Keeping your site secure can be a full time job. If your Joomla! site has many third party extensions, keeping track of their vulnerabilities and updates can be a full time job in itself.
Not keeping track can be very dangerous and potentially lethal for your site and your private data.
(Skip the article and go directly to the Vulnerable Extensions Feed:
http://feeds.joomla.org/JoomlaSecurityVulnerableExtensions make sure to use their "Subscribe by email" option)
Joomla! 1.5.17 is dead, long live Joomla 1.5.18!
Blogs - The Conticreative Joomla Blog
Written by Marco Conti Saturday, 29 May 2010 22:24
What do you know? Just as soon as I managed to updated most of my client's sites to Joomla 1.5.17 (including those I had just updated to 1.5.16, for a few hours) Joomla 1.5.18 has come out.
Get the full skinny on Joomla.org here or download the joomla 1.5.18 full version here or get the joomla 1.5.18 patches here while they are still hot from the oven.
Joomla 1.5.17 released after only 3 days since 1.5.16
Blogs - The Conticreative Joomla Blog
Written by Marco Conti Tuesday, 27 April 2010 13:36
Joomla.org has just released today the new 1.5.17 patch to the short lived 1.5.16 patch they released on April 24 2010.
Something must have gone very wrong with the .16 patch but the bottom line is to hurry and patch your Joomla site to version 1.5.17 today.
If you need to know how to properly patch Joomla to the latest version please read the rest of this article.
Joomla 1.5.16 is out
Blogs - The Conticreative Joomla Blog
Written by Marco Conti Saturday, 24 April 2010 15:15
EDIT: joomla 1.5.17 was released only 3 days after this patch. Please read the article about the 1.5.17 patch instead.
The Joomla Project has just released Joomla 1.5.16. A new security patch for the Joomla! CMS. Everyone is advised to upgrade as soon as possible their site to the new version.
The new patch is available here:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=5184
The patch is currently available only for Joomla 1.5.15. Until older version patches are available the patching process will be in 2 steps (your version to 1.5.15 ==> 1.5.16)
How to patch Joomla
A few weeks ago I created a Screencast for 10 Minute Joomla! Tips on patching Joomla. For non Cpanel server the process is similar but in many cases uploading and expanding ZIP files and creating ZIP archives for backup purposes is not possible. Which is the reason why I prefer using Cpanel for all my sites and my client's.
Read more...
- Making Dreamweaver recognize .INI and other non-native files
- Virtuemart Flypage fix - flypage not changing on product pages
- Fix the beez modified date from 1999
- Create a clone or "staging" site for your Joomla website
- How to install and Configure JCE - Part 2
- Joomla 1.5 - Sending System Emails from localhost
- How to install and configure the Joomla Content Editor - Part 1
- Change Joomla 1.5.x article date format
- Create a Static Joomla! 1.5 Homepage - take 2
- Internet Explorer 8 is here - What is means for Joomla and your CSS templates
Page 1 of 6
Resources
Latest Blogs
Joomla Training
Conticreative offers Individual and Corporate training (in person or online) on Joomla, Wordpress, Zen Cart and other leading Open Source scripts.
Books
