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2009 Joomla Training Survey
- Written by Barrie North Barrie North
- Published: 17 February 2009 17 February 2009
In 2008, our sister site, Compass Designs ran a series of successful single day training classes for Joomla across new England. One question we was asked again and again was "when will you be running classes in 2009?"
People had mentioned interest in different types of classes and perhaps different locations. So, we have created a survey for anyone interested in Joomla training to fill out, and from that we'll be determining the most popular combinations of location and class type.
If you are interested in expanding your Joomla knowledge in 2009 make sure you enter in your choices!
How to Change your favicon (Joomla! 1.5)
- Published: 09 February 2009 09 February 2009
Another popular article on this site explains how to change your favicon in your Joomla! 1.0-powered site. Naturally, a lot of people want to know how to change your favicon in a Joomla! 1.5-powered site, so this article goes through the process of changing your favicon in a Joomla! 1.5 site.
How to Move Your Joomla! 1.5 Site to a New Server
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 February 2009 07 February 2009
Update July 15, 2010: I should have posted this a long time ago, but the BEST way to move your Joomla site to a new server is to use Akeeba Backup.
The most popular article on this site covers How to move your Joomla! site to a new server, but it does not cover all of the details for moving your Joomla! 1.5 site to a new server. This how-to discusses the process of moving your Joomla! 1.5 site to a new server. The information contained in this how-to also happens to be an excerpt from my upcoming book, Beginning Joomla!. (Due out in early April)
Read more: How to Move Your Joomla! 1.5 Site to a New Server
How to add a JomComment comment counter to your Joomla!-powered blog
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 January 2009 19 January 2009
Video on building a blog with Joomla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bqG2iXiQOc
As promised, here is an article about one of the things I learned while upgrading How To Joomla to Joomla! 1.5. I have been using JomComment on How To Joomla for quite a while. You may have noticed that besides having the usual "Add Comment (2)" link at the end of each article introduction, I have also added a comment counter and link along with the "Written by...," date, section, and category, as shown in this image:
With the ability to override Joomla!'s core content output in a Joomla! 1.5 template, you can do virtually anything within your template. This tutorial demonstrates how to use template overrides to insert a JomComment comment counter anywhere you want to add it in your articles.
Read more: How to add a JomComment comment counter to your Joomla!-powered blog
How to Redirect 1.0 URL's to Joomla 1.5
- Written by Barrie North Barrie North
- Published: 15 January 2009 15 January 2009
You may have noticed that Joomlashack is now running on Joomla 1.5. We did a stealth migration yesterday.
We had one problem we needed to address, and it took a while to figure out, so we thought we would share the solution for others.
Our old site used Joomla 1.0, as I have mentioned before, we wanted to make sure we did a 301 redirect of the Joomla URL's so Google would quickly pick up the new ones and pass the pagerank to the new pages. The problem however was that our 1.0 site used the raw URL:
https://www.joomlashack.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37
We rapidly discovered that mod-write unfortunately will basically ignore all the php parameters here. You can't get rewrite to pay any attention to them.
Life Group LA wins 2008 Charity Contest
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 14 January 2009 14 January 2009
The Joomlashack community has spoken: The Life Group- LA is the winner of our 2008 Charity Contest!
LGLA narrowly edged out the very worth Global Conservation Assistance for first place. Joomlashack is proud to present a $1,000 USD contribution to the Life Group LA.
The US Joomlaverse expanding in 2009
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 14 January 2009 14 January 2009
With Joomla so popular now that even Paris Hilton uses (and breaks) it [Editor note: It seems early reports of Ms. Hilton using Joomla are not accurate- see the comments in the original post from Joomla core team representatives], it's no surprise that new Joomla User Groups (JUGs) are popping up all over the map.
The latest is in Wisconsin, where the Milwaukee User Group will hold its first meeting in a couple weeks. A few of us Vermonters call the New England User Group home, which has grown to an impressive number and is now helping spin off another new JUG in the seacoast region of New Hampshire (near Portsmouth.)
And then there are Joomla Days like the upcoming one in Las Vegas. Unfortunately we'll never know what happens there, because what happens in Vegas... So you'd better find your own local Joomla User Group and/or Joomla Day to attend!
If you are involved in a JUG or Joomla Day and think we should blog about it here on Joomlashack, let us know!
Joomla 1.5.9 Released- Important Security Update
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 14 January 2009 14 January 2009
It's been two months since a new version of Joomla 1.5 hit the streets, and not a moment too late. The new release has the longest change log we've seen in a long time, including some high priority security issues and dozens of bug fixes and changes.
The Joomla proclaims Joomla 1.5.9 is "a security release and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately." So get to it!
How to Find Joomla!-related Resources
- Published: 06 January 2009 06 January 2009
I am happy to announce that I have just put the finishing touches on a Joomla!-specific search engine at resources.howtojoomla.net. HowToJoomla! Resources started as a way to easily search Joomla!-related sites that offer useful resources to the Joomla! community. Using traditional search engines to search for terms like "templates" or "components" won't turn up Joomla!-related information, but using this search engine will because it only searches sites that offer services and resources to the Joomla! community.
If you have a site that you think should be included in the list of resources, please feel free to submit your site for consideration. Not all sites will be accepted. Only sites that provide Joomla!-related services and resources to the community will be considered.
3rd Annual Joomlashack Charity Contest- Vote Now
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 19 December 2008 19 December 2008
NOTE: Voting on this contest closed on 1/4/2009. Want to support our 2009 charitable efforts? Read about our matching program!
Support these five charities, but vote for just one!
Last month we asked our Joomlashack community to nominate their favorite charity for a $1,000 USD cash prize. Within 10 days, we had nominees from all corners of the globe and doing incredibly diverse work. Our team carefully reviewed every entry and then narrowed our list down to the five nominees below as our favorite five.
Please check out and then support each of these excellent and deserving organizations with an online contribution, and then vote for the charity that you think is most deserving of our $1,000 USD cash prize.
Voting ends Sunday, January 4th at 11:59pm EST