Using Sphinx to Substantially Enhance the Speed of the Joomla Search

Warning: This is an extremely advanced post that requires some serious system administration skills and some serious programming skills. If you feel you’re not up to it, then don’t do it! Ask some Joomla experts (such as, ahem, us!) to do the implementation for you – you’ll save time and your blood pressure will not […]

“Could not start mail function” Error when Registering on a Joomla Website

A new client called us this morning and told us that whenever someone tries registering on his website, he gets the following error: Could not start mail function The client was frustrated because he contacted two firms before contacting us, and both of these firms weren’t successful in resolving the problem. So, the first thing […]

“UID of script file.php is smaller than min_uid” Error on a Joomla Website

An international news agency using Joomla to power one of their websites called us yesterday. They told us that they’re seeing a blank page, and the problem turned out to be related to sh404SEF’s cache (the cache file was exhausting all the memory that the system has and throwing this error). Due to the nature […]

What to Do When Your Joomla Website Is Blocked by HP’s Tipping Point

One of our very large clients sent us an email stating that the doctors working at an extremely high profile hospital were unable to access their website (our client’s Joomla website). The email stated that the website was timing out for them. At first, we thought it was a browser issue (since large companies tend […]

A Menu Item with “Registered” Access Doesn’t Mean that the Article Is Private

One of Joomla’s biggest misconceptions is that if someone wants to make an article private (e.g. only allow access to that article for registered users), then all that needs to be done is to point a menu item to that article and change the Access value of that menu item to Registered and that’s it! […]

Joomla’s Cache Is Deleted on Article Update: How to Fix

Note: This is an extremely advanced post that requires some serious knowledge with Joomla as well as more than average programming skills. If you feel that it’s a bit over your head then you should ask some Joomla experts to do it for you (like, ahem, us) since caching is a very delicate feature in […]