Category Archives: CMS
OSDownloads – Joomla Downloads Plus MailChimp
OSDownloads is the Joomla downloads extensions designed to allow you to collect emails in exchange for the download. This is useful if you want to notify users about updates or changes. This also means that you don’t have to force … Continue reading
Create a Contact Form in Joomla
This tutorial will show you how to create a contact form in Joomla 1.6 / 1.7. We’ll use the default Contacts components so no extra extensions are needed. Step 1: Create the Contact Form Go to Components > Contacts. Click … Continue reading
Joomla ACL Tutorial for Allowing One Person to Modify Only One Category
Here’s a specific ACL tutorial requested by one of our students. She wanted to know how to allow a single individual to be able to create and modify articles in only single category, so we created this tutorial for her. … Continue reading
Joomla Language Override Tutorial
This tutorial will show how to modify and/or translate Joomla’s language strings. One of our students was wondering how to make the Terms of Service text into an active link when people registered on his site. So we created this … Continue reading
Encrypt Any Password in Joomla Using MD5
We already have a tutorial on changing the password of a Joomla user to "admin". That tutorial allows you to reset any user password to "admin". However, one of our students wanted to know how to create safer passwords. How … Continue reading
Stay Logged Into Your Joomla Site for Longer
There is nothing more frustrating than working on a Joomla entry a little too long and then trying to save and get the login screen ( OK, I guess there are worse things, but this one ranks pretty high). You … Continue reading
Creating Your First WordPress Child Theme
Whether you just want to create a slightly customized theme or something completely unique, creating a WordPress child theme can greatly speed up the development process. Child themes let you start with the basics of an existing theme, so you’re … Continue reading
Help, My Joomla Username and Password Dont Match
> Has this happened to you? You try to login and suddenly your username and password don’t match. Well, it happened to me three times this week, and after doing a little research I found that this happens more often … Continue reading
How to Clear the Cache in Joomla
We get asked this question quite often. Usually someone is trying to change something in their admin section, they go to the site to preview the changes and – NOTHING’S CHANGED! That usually leads to varying amounts of hair pulling … Continue reading
What is the Contact Creator Plugin in Joomla?
We’ve already written a tutorial on adding contacts and contact forms using the core Joomla Contacts component. There is also a plugin built into the core, which automates the creation of the contact form and adds new users to the … Continue reading
SP Upgrade for Joomla 1.5 to 1.7 Migration
Now here’s a strange coincidence … while I was writing this tutorial, one of my sites got hacked because it wasn’t updated. I had neglected to update my site because it involves downloads and uploads and who has time for … Continue reading
How to Use sh404SEF for Joomla
For years sh404SEF has been an important SEO extension for Joomla. It handles your URLs, your metadata and has even started to add features such as security, analytics and QR codes. The purpose of this tutorial is to get you … Continue reading
Happy New Year + 2012 Desktop Wallpaper
What a year! As we are closing in to the end of 2011, we – everyone here at hongkiat.com – would like to thank you guys for all the supports throughout the entire year. We’ll be back next year with … Continue reading