We receive a call every other day from new clients telling us that one of their Joomla articles is not updating: They can see the updates in the backend, but the frontend does not show the updates. In most cases, there are three simple reasons behind this: The article is retrieved from the cache: When […]

A large percentage of our Joomla clients have their websites hosted with GoDaddy (GoDaddy is a very convenient hosting for many of our customers because this is where they bought their domains from), so we thought that writing a comprehensive and detailed post on how to manually install Joomla on a GoDaddy hosting would be […]

Let’s say that you own two Joomla websites, and you want to unify the login for these sites – in other words, whenever someone is logged in to one site, then you want him to be automatically logged in to the other. The process of unifying login across multiple is called “cookie migration”, and is […]

We just got a call from a new client. The client told us that he was suddenly seeing an error on every page of his Joomla website. The page still loads, but there is an error on every page that loads. It’s not the first time that we had such a call, and that’s why […]

Every week, we get about 2 requests from customers asking us to import their products’ database (in a CSV format) into VirtueMart on their Joomla website. Usually, every customer has the following 4 columns (fields) in his CSV file: Product Name Product Description Product Price Product Category The remaining columns differ based on the customer’s […]

One of our customers had a very odd problem that we fixed a couple of days ago: whenever someone tried to login to his frontend, he had to do it twice. The login worked from the first time in rare situations, but most of the times the person had to enter his username and password […]

We had a very interesting job today. A new client came to us, and told us that his Joomla website was not sending emails. We first thought that it was the settings that he had on his configuration, but everything was fine. His mail settings were correct, he was using “PHP Mailer” as Mailer and […]

We are currently working on a very interesting project. The project consists of a migration of a Joomla website to another sever, as well as several major fixes to the website. One of these “fixes” revolve around an RSForm Form, that doesn’t work. The form seems to submit, but then redirects back to itself (instead […]

Occasionally, one of our (potential) clients calls us and tells that he’s not able to edit the CSS file on his Joomla website. Usually, the client just wants to change a color or a font. Sometimes the client is not able to see the Template Manager section so he’s not even able to see the […]

Every since Joomla 2.5 was released last week, customers have been asking us this question: “Is it worth it to upgrade to Joomla 2.5?” That’s a very legitimate question. Our answer to this question is always like this: “It’s worth it as there are some features that are in Joomla 2.5 that do not exist […]

Every other week or so, we get a call from a (potential) client that goes like this: Client: “Hi!” Us: “Hi!”https://www.itoctopus.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1329&message=1 Client: “I would like to make some edits to my database, and I want to know which Joomla file is the database.” Us: “Well sir, the database is not stored in any Joomla file, […]

In this post, we will list the most important tips that you can use to have a safe, fast, and efficient Joomla website. The tips are grouped into 3 categories: Security tips Performance tips General tips Important security tips for Joomla We have discussed before 10 security tips for your Joomla website. We will re-discuss […]