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Easily Test Joomla 3 Patches
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 October 2013 08 October 2013
Joomla 3.2 is coming soon. A beta release of 3.2 is due this week and so it's time for developers to start testing.
The Joomla team says that,
"the amount of contributions for this release is amazingly high and we are most likely looking at the largest release of the CMS ever."
To make testing the change much easier, the Joomla team have released a component called "Patch Tester".
Easily Build Joomla Components with Component Creator
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 01 October 2013 01 October 2013
During the last 8 years, developers have created 10,000's of components for Joomla.
Some of the work involved in creating an extension can be fairly tedious. There are installation packages to build, database tables to created and layout files to generate.
Component Creator from Jensen technologies allows you to automate all of those tedious tasks. It will help you to create your own installable components without typing a single line of code.
Here's how Component Creator works:
Read more: Easily Build Joomla Components with Component Creator
Delivering Joomla Email via Mandrill
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 October 2013 01 October 2013
We send almost all of the emails from OSTraining via a service called Mandrill.
Why would we use a 3rd party to deliver the email that our site creates?
In a word: Deliverability. Mandrill is run by the team at MailChimp and their entire business revolves around making sure that emails get delivered, rather han hitting the spam folder. We think that more of our site's users will get our emails if we rely on Mandrill. We weren't able to track stats with Joomla's default emails, but with Mandrill our deliverability is around 98.5%.
Here's how to use Mandrill on your Joomla site.
Changing Your Joomla Template Background
- Written by Igor Mihaljko Igor Mihaljko
- Published: 24 September 2013 24 September 2013
Lately, I've received requests to implement a feature that will change the background of a website on each page visit.
I have to admit, it took me some time to learn how to do it by myself. I thought about sharing my experience with a larger audience.
This step-by-step tutorial explaining how to achieve this using a real template in a real situation.
TinyMCE is Much Improved in Joomla 3.2
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 September 2013 17 September 2013
Joomla 3.2 is shaping up to be one of my favorite Joomla updates.
There are some headline improvements such as the Joomla AppStore and also Versions for articles.
There are also some useful smaller improvements. One such improvement is the move from TinyMCE 3 to TinyMCE 4.
Retina.js: Support Retina Images in Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 16 September 2013 16 September 2013
You can blame it on the iPad 3.
Ever since the launch of the iPad 3, really high resolution images have been a requirement for looking great on larger screens.
Webdesigners have had different reactions to need for high resolution images, but the most common practice is to create two images:
Akeeba Backup and Amazon Web Services
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 September 2013 08 September 2013
Backing up your site is an essential task, but it can also be difficult to do.
The best tool available for backing up your Joomla site is Akeeba Backup.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to use Akeeba to backup your site to a remote server. For security, your backups need to be kept on a completely different system than your site.
Stop Joomla Menu Links from Re-ordering
- Written by joedson silva joedson silva
- Published: 13 August 2013 13 August 2013
There's a recurring problem that we've seen on several Joomla sites that have been migrated from Joomla 1.5.
Software such as a jUpgrade and SPUpgrade does a good job of moving site content and menu links.
However, the recurring problem is that the menu links on the migrated sites will re-order themselves. Often this happens when other menu links are changed or when extensions are installed.
Here's how to fix the problem.
Create Lightboxes in Joomla with Modals
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 August 2013 01 August 2013
Are you looking to create a popup effect or turn a link into a popup window? These are also known as modals or lightboxes.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a modal effect in Joomla.
We're going to use the NoNumber extension called Modals.
This tutorial will work with Joomla 2.5 and 3.
Understanding Joomla's User Profile plugin
- Written by Rob de Cleen Rob de Cleen
- Published: 01 August 2013 01 August 2013
One of our members had a question about the User Profile plugin that appears in the Joomla core.
The User Profile plugin is available in Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3, but it's not immediately obvious what it does.
Read on, and we'll help you understand what this plugin does ...