I use the Joomla! CMS a lot and I also use the Phoca Download extension as my default extension for file downloads. Phoca Download is great, no complaints from me…except that annoying “Powered by Phoca Download” footer message.
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Installing PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04
May 4th, 2017Happy New Year peeps!!!. I know I know, it’s late but you know what they say: better late than never.
I was updating my Joomla version to 3.7 and I got a warning telling me that I should update my PHP version on the server. So I went straight to Google to figure out how to do it…and I got all sorts of tutorials that did not work.
How to Setup ReCaptcha in Joomla 3.4
November 10th, 2016One of my sites was being attacked by a damn spam bot so I decided that enough was enough! I use ReCaptcha for all my WordPress sites and deceided to use it for Joomla as well.
Invalid Parent ID Error on Joomla 3
March 31st, 2016I was doing some routine work on one of my websites (adding articles and deleting expired ones) when I came across this “Invalid Parent ID” error when trying to save an article. The article was saved successfully but the error kept showing up.
Fighting Spam on Joomla! Powered Websites
March 19th, 2014
I use Joomla! at work to develop sites for the Government of Dominica and I have been getting quite a lot of spam from the contact form and comments. Reducing the spam is a challenge because I cannot use a Captcha due to our standards.
Joomla Category List or Blog Override
March 3rd, 2013Sometimes you need to make a couple changes to the default Joomla category list or category blog layout for your purposes. This is were the Joomla override feature comes in handy.
Using Joomla Language Override Feature
February 17th, 2013Sometimes when using Joomla, you want to change the “No Article” message or some other default Joomla text message. The easy way to do it would be to use the Joomla language override.
Mobile Joomla
October 17th, 2012
There are so many Joomla powered websites out there and I must admit, the majority of them look great! However, viewing these sites on your mobile device is a pain in the *** especially when they do not have a mobile theme. One solution is to use Mobile Joomla!
Helix Framework for Joomla
July 22nd, 2012If you are like me and you create a lot of templates from scratch when working on your Joomla projects, you know it can be time consuming to design and construct your template. Fortunately, the Helix Framework is there to make this process easier and less time consuming.