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Written by barrie@compassdesigns.net
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 |
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Its recently surfaced that there is a small hole in the password reset process for Joomla 1.5. Recently for me as this site was hacked late this afternoon and I spent an amusing hour or so tussling with the would be hacker and me in the backend of the site. He was busy deleting articles, I was busy deleting his user. The j.org team have released a fix already. Its a critical security patch and part of 1.5.6. You should update your site ASAP if you are running Joomla 1.5. On a r [...]
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Written by Alledia Blog
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
There has been an interesting update to the forum sections on the Joomla Extensions Directory. It has been split into Native Joomla Forums (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,1778/Itemid,35/) and Forum Bridges (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,1969/Itemid,35/).
I was shocked to see only five native Joomla forums remaining. There are two native forums with a wide range of features:
FireBoard (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,2134/Itemid,35/) (still in legacy mode on Joomla 1.5 until version 2.0 in the fall (http://www.bestofjoomla.net/wiki/doku.php?id=com_fireboard:fireboard_roadmap:start))Joo!BB (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,3438/Itemid,35/) (still in Alpha)
And three very basic forums:
Simplest Forum (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,3131/Itemid,35/)
Rapid Forum (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,4830/Itemid,35/)
Nice Talk (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1676/Itemid,35/)
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Written by Blog - Joomlatools
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
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Written by contact@compassdesigns.net
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
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You can still book Joomla training in Manchester, NH and get $50 with early bird pricing. There are 10 spots still left, and early bird ends tomorrow. Make sure you get your worm! joomla-university-manchester-aug08.eventbrite.com
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Written by the whyjoomla? blog
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 |
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I've been posting sporadically to this blog for some time now, and we've been lucky to attract a few thousand people per month. I generally advocate that a site's success doesn't solely reside in Google Analytics but instead, mainly in the feel of community participation it relays to people when they spend time on it. In that respect, things are going well here - you guys post comments here and there (general-information/messages/recent-comments.html) fairly regularly and old threads are always being picked up for debate.
When I launched the blog I sought to answer its title question through the anecdotes and ponderings I was going to post to it. Though, in the past few months - with Joomla 1.5 being released and a whole stack of new extensions being released for it, I'm still curious to hear why you - the Joomla community at large, choose to use it as your platform of choice for building websites.
So - please feel free to be as candid as you'd like, post a comment below to answer the simple question...
... Why Joomla ?
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Written by contact@compassdesigns.net
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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If you have an old post bookmarked at forum.joomla.org that was when it was running SMF, its more than likely that the link will give an error.
Fortunately, its relatively easy to figure out what the new URL is on the newer PHPbb3 forum.
Let's say your old link was:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,255762.0/topicseen.html
The new link would be:
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=255762
Thanks to Brian and Kenneth for pondering on t [...]
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Written by contact@compassdesigns.net
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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Every now and again, you find an extensions for Joomla thats so simple and just does its job perfectly. No fuss or mess, it just works.
I recently was hunting around for a shoutbox, one of those little Ajax widgets where people can just type in comments and it appears. Kind of like a persistent chat.
With some looking around I found one, the AJAX Shoutbox, made by Risp. It installed perfectly and runs great in 1.5. If you need a shoutbox, check it out.
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Written by contact@compassdesigns.net
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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The "Earthblog" Joomla! template is a great template for technical sites, blogs, communities, churches, portals, and so many more. This template has a variety of time saving extras such as matching JCalPro themes and a super-lightweight mootools slider module to attract rea [...]
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Written by Alledia Blog
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
There are some third rails in every community ... things that people are reluctant to talk about and discuss. Joomla's move to a GPL license was one of those, and I think we did a reasonable job of openly talking about the issues and implications.
This week, I'm going to attempt to touch another third rail: Joomla's trademark.
Today, Joomla's trademark of its name and logo was accepted and publishsed. This week, I'll attempt to answer questions about what this means for Joomla and for people running Joomla sites. This first post lays out facts about the trademarks:
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Written by the whyjoomla? blog
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
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A few years ago we created a site called JoomlaFeed (http://www.joomlafeed.com) - our mission was to create an online space where people interested in Joomla could catch up on news from across the Web; including snippets from the Core Team as well as extension developers, community advocates and a host of others.
The site's been successful in so far as having a number of people subscribe to its aggregated RSS feeds as well as visit joomlafeed.com (http://www.joomlafeed.com) regularly but I think it can do more.
So, we're taking the occasion for rebuilding JoomlaFeed in Joomla 1.5 as an opportunity to see what you all think of the site and would like from it.
Please visit http://www.joomlafeed.com (http://www.joomlafeed.com) and post your comments! (There's a link at the top of the site)
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