Note: This post is targeted at Joomla developers. We were seeing the following error while trying to save the data in a Joomla form that we have created in the admin: Save failed with the following error: (with the colon at the end) The above tells us that there is a problem with saving the […]
Note: This post expects the reader to be a Joomla developer. If you’re a casual Joomla user with no programming experience then most likely this post is not for you. Sometimes, you search the web for a solution to something in Joomla and all you find is: Outdated information Code that doesn’t work Code that […]
Joomla is great when it comes to facilitating things for developers. For example, if you want to create a form that saves and retrieves data from the database in the backend, all you need to do is to create the XML schema file and create some standard files (these files are merely copy and paste […]
Many of our clients are large companies that choose to host their websites in-house. They do this because of security and data confidentiality concerns. This is standard practice in large companies but it usually suffers from the following drawbacks: In most cases, the in-house data center infrastructure is not at par with standard hosting infrastructures. […]
Nearly a month ago, we discussed how to quickly move a Joomla website from development to production. The process that we described in that post always worked for us – until yesterday. Here’s what we did: We created a fresh Joomla instance under a sub-directory called v2. We migrated the old content and we ensured […]
We have explained a long time ago how to add an HTML Text Editor field to an extension in Joomla 2.5 – and we have stated that the method described in that post only works on Joomla 2.5. Back then, we thought that we’ll never have to do this on Joomla 1.5 – and we […]
At itoctopus, we pride ourselves that we often give real solutions to common problems when no one else does! This morning was no different. We have solved a common problem with sh404SEF that even the creators of that extension claimed that there is no solution for. Here’s the problem. Let’s say you choose to include […]
It seems that every single 3rd party company developing Joomla extensions has either created or is creating a responsive template and is marketing that template to its customer base as the next big thing. Even RSJoomla, a company that we really like and respect, is doing that… We have to say that we’re amazed at […]
While migrating a Joomla website from 1.5 to 2.5, we had an interesting issue: after we migrated the content and activated sh404SEF, we noticed that the IDs of the articles were at the beginning of the URL, instead of its end. For example, instead of this link: http://www.ourclientjoomlawebsite.com/test-article-12345.html We had this link: http://www.ourclientjoomlawebsite.com/12345-test-article.html Quick Note: […]
One of our very large customers gave us a call last Friday and told us that a stat counter that they were using on one of their websites suddenly stopped working. That stat counter was very important for them, since it was used by their potential advertisers to know how much page impressions they will […]
We have already expressed that we are not very big fans of sh404SEF – we think that this extension does more harm than good for what it does. But, the fact of the matter is, there are thousands of Joomla websites using it, so, whether we like it or not, it’s part of Joomla’s ecosystem […]
GoDaddy, although one of the largest hosting companies out there, has a not-so-good reputation when it comes to security. In fact, many of the Joomla websites that we fix are hosted on GoDaddy. So why is that? Well, we think that there are three major reasons why Joomla websites hosted on GoDaddy get hacked more […]