K2 Search Not Working for 3 Letter Words? Here’s How to Fix!

One of the projects we are currently working on is converting a website from using Joomla’s content to K2’s content. In other words, all the articles, categories, images, are migrated to K2 and the website must display all its content from K2. Additionally, all the modules that are using Joomla’s content must be modified to […]

Using the Slow Query Log to Reveal Bottlenecks on Your Joomla Website

Note 1: This post is targeted at system administrators with hands-on experience with MySQL. If you’re not a technical person, then please forward this post to your system administrator (you can always hire us if you don’t have one!). Note 2: You will need root access to your server’s shell to implement the instructions in […]

“Fatal error: Cannot access protected property ContentViewArticle::$params” Error in Joomla

About 70% of the work we’re doing nowadays is migrating Joomla websites from version 1.5 to version 2.5. A common error that we get while migrating a template is the following: Fatal error: Cannot access protected property ContentViewArticle::$params We have seen the above error so many times so far that we now know the solution […]

Using Forward Slash Instead of a Hyphen in K2’s sh404 Links

Yes – we know – the title of this post couldn’t be more odd, but here’s the scenario: We were migrating a large website from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5. Nearly all of the content of the migrated website was created in K2 and the website was using sh404. The links on the old Joomla […]

The “Rebuild” Button In Joomla’s Menu Manager Page – A Double Edged Sword!

You have probably seen the “Rebuild” button on the Menu Manager page on your Joomla website for some time, but most likely you haven’t pressed it – because you didn’t know what it is, and perhaps you thought: “Maybe it’s not such a good idea to press that button”. Well, we think you’re right! So, […]

10 Reasons Why You’re Not Able to Login to Your Joomla Website

We have so far resolved literally hundreds of cases where people were not able to login to their Joomla websites. Since our aim is to always make the life of a Joomla administrator as easy as possible, we have decided to list the top 10 reasons that result in the inability for one to login […]

Upload Not Working in Joomla’s Media Manager – How to Fix

One of our regular customers emailed us today and told us that the Media Manager on his Joomla website of his company is not working. He asked to take a look. We logged in to his website and we noticed that while the Media Manager page is loading properly, the upload functionality is not working. […]

How to Change the “Email this link to a friend” Template in Joomla

We are currently finalizing the migration of a very large Joomla website at the moment (from 1.5 to 2.5). During the latest QA session, we discovered that the “Email this link to a friend” popup page (the page that pops up when you click on the email icon on any article) does not look properly […]

How to Migrate Modules’ Data from Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 2.5

– Note 1: This post is about migrating modules’ data (such as settings, content, etc…) – it’s not about migrating the actual code. This post comes to help when you have lots of modules on your Joomla 1.5 website, and you don’t have time to manually migrate all the data for all these modules. – […]