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Thursday, 27 August 2009 08:02
Template broke after upgrading Joomla?
by Chris C.
Say you're running a version of Joomla other than the latest one, which is currently 1.5.14. Say you've got a site running, I don't know... 1.5.9. Clearly it's time to upgrade. And upgrading is, of course, easy - just download the 1.5.9 to 1.5.14 file from joomla.org, upload it to your server, extract, and you're done. Usually the upgrade process is painless and things work fine. However, sometimes after an upgrade you may notice that your site looks hideous - that your template's broken and nothing looks the way it did five minutes ago. If you've run into this, it's usually because you've built your site off one of the templates that ships with Joomla. The upgrade process will often upgrade the default templates, overwriting your customizations and adjustments and setting the CSS files and .php files back to the way they originally were. To fix this, you just need to re-upload your customized template files. What's that? You don't have a backup copy of your template files? If that's the case, you're out of luck and you'll have to rebuild everything in the template. It shouldn't be the case, though - you should *always* have a full local backup copy of your site, and you should *always* back up your site before upgrading the Joomla core or any major extensions. The easiest way to create backups is with JoomlaPack. If you don't have it, you need to get it. It makes the process of creating complete Joomla site backups fast and easy. I install it on every Joomla site I build. We'll go into JoomlaPack in a future blog entry. For now - if a Joomla upgrade breaks your template, it's because you used a modified default template for your site and the files were overwritten. To fix, just re-upload your modified template files.
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 23:38
Joomla security tip: Delete the admin
by Chris C.
Joomla sites are popular targets for hackers. One of the ways they'll try to gain access to your site is by trying to brute-force password-crack your admin account. Many people just leave the default "admin" account untouched after installing Joomla, which allows hackers to try myriad passwords against the "admin" username until they find one that works. Or they can use an SQL injection - if your site's vulnerable to such attacks - to change the admin password and gain access that way. The easiest way to get around this is to just delete the admin user immediately after you've set up a new Joomla installation. Before you delete the "admin" user, though, be sure to create at least one new superadmin-level account to replace it with. This is the account that you'll use to login as the site administrator. Once at least one new superadmin account has been set up, logout, login again with the new superadmin account info, then delete the default "admin" account. Congrats - you've just made it that much less likely that your site'll be hacked.
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Friday, 17 July 2009 05:34
K2 vs Superblogger: The Short Version
by Chris C.
JoomlaWorks has fielded two very interesting solutions for blogging in Joomla - K2 and Superblogger. K2 is free and can be used for a whole lot more than just blogging. Superblogger is cheap - about $11 CDN - and is specifically designed for blogging. So if you want to add a blog to your existing Joomla site or start a new blog-style Joomla site from scratch, which is the better option?
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Tuesday, 14 July 2009 20:50
Using K2 for Joomla blogging
by Chris C.
K2 is a pretty amazing new extension for Joomla developed by JoomlaWorks, a long-standing creator of top quality Joomla extensions, including the free and very popular Simple Image Gallery and AllVideos plugins. We've been playing around with K2 here at SQC for the past couple of weeks and decided to give it a test run as our blogging platform. The blog post you're reading right now was authored using K2. The traditional way of creating a blog in Joomla was to create a "blog" section and then multiple categories within that section covering various subjects that blog posts would be organized into. To create a post, you'd create a new article, assign it to the blog section, and put it into a category. And then write your content and upload and insert any photos. Then you'd set the article to published, save it, and voila, a blog post.
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