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Written by Alledia Blog
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
Back at JoomlaExpo in Chicago, one guy stood up during Barrie North's presentation and very happily announced he'd found Barrie's tutorials so useful that he'd sent him a box of juicy steaks.
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Written by Blog - Joomlatools
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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Written by Alledia Blog
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
404 Errors On Individual Pages
sh404SEF can sometimes record a new URL without also recording the default Joomla version. It may be neccessary to go into the database in order to fix the problem. Here are the steps to take.
Go into your database. phpMyAdmin is most common way to do this and your host is likely to have this installed.
Find the table called jos_redirection (or replace jos with your own table prefixes)
Click on Old URL . This will sort the table alphabetically via its SEF URLs.
Search for the URL that is causing the 404 error. It may not have an entry in the New URL field. Either put the normal Joomla URL in here or simply click on the red X to delete it.
404 Errors Immediately After Purging URLs
sh404SEF can sometimes take a few minutes to recreate all the URLs. One way to speed the process is to visit the sitemap page on the frontend.
Pages Don't Have the Correct Modules or Templates
Its possible that sh404SEF has recorded the URL but without the correct Itemid. In this example, we have two versions of lost-user-name.htm. One includes Itemid=10 and one doesn't. Because the active URL (the one with 4 hits) doesn't include Itemid=10, it may be the reason why the modules and templates don't work. To solve this, select the URL that doesn't include Itemid=10.
Global Configuration Not Correctly Set
Under SEO Settings make sure that all three options are set to no (Search Engine Friendly URLs, Use Apache mod_rewrite, Add suffix to URLs)
h1 Tags Cause Template Problems
There are two likely issues here:
Some templates come with h1 tags behind the logo. If you see problem with the logo area, this is likely to the be problem. You may need to go into the template's index.php file and remove the h1 tags.
Templates don't have CSS for h1 tags. If the h1 tags show very large, you will need to add your own CSS to the template's CSS file. One example is:
h1 {
font-size:16px;
}
or
h1 {
font-size: 125%;
}
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Written by contact@compassdesigns.net
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
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Yes indeedy.... Does Wordpress have better out of the box SEO than Joomla? Discuss.. :)
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Written by HowToJoomla
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
There are actually several ways to go about embedding a YouTube video into an article in Joomla! 1.5, but I have built a plugin that makes it dead simple. You can download the plugin here (component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,5/Itemid,26/).
Here's how it works:
Step 1: Download the plugin. (component/option,com_docman/task,doc_details/gid,5/Itemid,26/)
Step 2: Install it.
Step 3: Enable (publish) it.
Step 4: Go to YouTube.com (http://www.youtube.com) and find a video that you want to embed.
Step 5: Copy the URL for that video from your browser bar.
Step 6: Paste the URL into your content item.
Repeat steps 4-6 for as many videos as you wish...
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Written by Alledia Blog
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
No doubt about it, RSS feeds on 1.5 are better than they were on 1.0. Not perfect, but certainly better.
Instead of a single feed, the 1.5 RSS feed that appears in the browser bar is always changing because
it shows only the articles on that page. You can see a good example at http://community.joomla.org (http://community.joomla.org).
This did lead to one problem I found the other day ... its sometimes difficult to produce a full RSS feed for all the articles on your site.
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Written by contact@compassdesigns.net
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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If you didn't know, Brian Clark is the founding editor of Copyblogger, and co-founder of Teaching Sells. I am a daily reader of Copyblogger and have often used him for inspiration for posts here at Compass.
I have been a charter member of his Teaching Sells site since it launched. Quite simply, it teaches you everything you might possibly want to know about building an launching a subscription online learning site. At $97 a month, some might think it expensive, but I consider the val [...]
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Written by contact@compassdesigns.net
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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Having a form on your website is incredibly useful. Its the easiest way to get information from your site visitors, which is critical for an interactive site. For such a useful and obvious extension, its always surprised me that there were not many options, and even fewer that work on 1.5. That changed last week with the release of a new 1.5 native forms component from Phil Taylor. I recently checked out his tags component as an option for my blog. If his forms component is as good, it [...]
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Written by HowToJoomla
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
Joomla! comes with a plugin/mambot called GeSHi that comes in quite handy if you have a site like HowToJoomla.net in which you share code snippets with your readers. I recently tried to use GeSHi on a Joomla! 1.5 site, and I found that it works differently in Joomla! 1.5 than it does in Joomla! 1.0. Read on to see how to use it in both.
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Written by HowToJoomla
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
Here is a neat little trick I picked up last Friday at the Joomla! 1.5 bootcamp in Austin led by Johan Janssens (http://www.joomlatools.org/).
In Joomla! 1.5, if you simply want to display your component without any modules and without your template styles, all you have to do is add "?tmpl=component" or " tmpl=component" to the end of the URL, depending on whether or not there are already other parameters on the end of the URL.
For example, if you just want to view the component on the home page of the new community.joomla.org (http://community.joomla.org) site, you simply add "?tmpl=component" to the URL...
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