“Save failed with the following error: Invalid parent ID” Error on Joomla

A client called us this evening and told us that all of a sudden, everytime he tried saving an article belonging to a certain category (it was the “Technology” category), he was seeing the following error: Save failed with the following error: Invalid parent ID He told us that articles belonging to other categories save […]

Your Joomla Website Is Really Really Slow? Maybe You Hit the Maximum Number of Apache Clients!

One of our prominent clients is a US racing magazine. The magazine has a Joomla website that discusses everything related to racing, such as Formula 1, Indy 500, NASCAR, etc… The website has a lot of content and receives a substantial amount of visitors. The problem was that during peak hours, the website became very […]

Problems with Sharing Links of a Joomla Website on Facebook

One of our clients called us yesterday afternoon and told us that as of recently, whenever he tries to share a link from his website on Facebook, only the title of the link appears, the description and the image do not. Our client was using the latest version of Joomla, 3.3.1. We checked the generated […]

You Can’t Create a Menu Item Alias Pointing to Another Menu Item Alias

An established client emailed us this afternoon and told us that, in one of their menus, they had this link: http://ourclientjoomlawebsite/?Itemid=500 The URL was returning a “404 – Component not found” error and they were confused as to why the problem was happening. We logged in to the backend of the site and we immediately […]

Internal Webspam on Websites – The Enemy Within!

Note: This post has some assumptions on how Google works since nobody, with the exception of a select secretive few at Google, is fully informed about the insides of Google’s search engine rankings. Please keep that in mind while reading this post. One of our major clients told us that they lost in traffic to […]

JTableInterface Has Changed in Joomla 3.3.1 and That Is Causing Problems

A new client called us yesterday and told us that he was seeing some blank pages on his Joomla website. Of course, we have discussed the blank page issue many times on this blog before, but, if you haven’t read any of our previous posts on blank pages, then, in short, here’s what causes them: […]

How to Change the Default Sort Order of the Articles in Joomla’s Backend

Note: This post applies to both Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.x. Warning: This post requires that you make a simple modification to a core Joomla file, which means that the next time you update Joomla, your changes might get overwritten and you will need to re-apply them. We have many clients that literally have thousands […]

“500 Internal Server Error” on a Joomla Website After Using the Admin Tools Extension

This morning, we had a client calling us and saying that his website was displaying a “500 Internal Server Error” message. He told us that this started happening when he tried to fix the permissions by using Admin Tools, which is a well known Joomla extension that is used for security and fixing broken Joomla […]

A Flooded Session Table Can Dramatically Slow Down Your Joomla Site

About a week ago, a new client called us and told us that the her company’s corporate website is slow, very slow. So we checked the Slow Query Log (see here for more about it) on the website’s server, and we immediately noticed the issue. The log was literally over 200 MB in size and […]

Using FTP on Your Joomla Website Can Result in Getting It Hacked

If you’re using FTP to upload files to your Joomla websites, then, you probably know that you’re not alone. The vast majority of Joomla websites allow for FTP access. What you probably do not know, is that you’re compromising the security of your Joomla website when you’re using FTP. Why is that? Well, because FTP […]