Yet Another Login Loop in Joomla’s Backend

Login loops are probably the most complex problems to fix on a Joomla website. Here’s the scenario: you go to the login page of the backend of your Joomla website, you enter your username and password, you click on the blue Log In button, but, to your surprise, you are redirected back to the login […]

“500 – Unable to load renderer class” Error on Joomla

A Joomla designer called us this morning and told us that he was seeing the following error when trying to load the Joomla website of his client: 500 – Unable to load renderer class He told us that this whole thing happened after switching to a new template, and that reverting back to the old […]

You Can’t Receive Emails to Your Own Domain from Your Joomla Website? Read This!

Last Monday, we received an email from a company (which is a client of ours) stating that any email sent from their Joomla website to an email to their domain isn’t being received. For example, assuming that their Joomla website is ourclientjoomlawebsite.com, and the Joomla website tries to send an email to admin@ourclientjoomlawebsite.com (the email, […]

The Illogical Ordering of Articles on Joomla 3.6.+

Note: This post is a rant! Proceed at your own risk! When Joomla 3.6 was released, most of those who updated their websites started complaining: I added a new article, but I can’t find it anywhere on my website. What is the problem? The problem is that someone (you know yourself if you’re reading this!), […]

The Malicious “security.php” File on Joomla Websites

We are currently getting swamped with hacked Joomla websites with a malicious security.php file in their root directory (e.g. at the same level of the index.php file). The name of that file is extremely misleading because it implies security, while, in reality, it is the complete opposite. In fact, Joomla websites should not contain a […]

“Ajax Loading Error: Category not found” Error when Updating a Joomla Website

A new client, with a Joomla 3.6.0 website, called us yesterday evening and told us that every time he tries to update his Joomla website, he sees the following the following error: Ajax Loading Error: Category not found So, we went to his website, and tried to update Joomla, but, as expected, we saw the […]

Blank Page When Clicking on “Read Messages” in Joomla’s Backend

A client contacted us on Friday of last week and told us that he had the following weird problem: every time he clicked on Read Messages (which is located in the You have post-installation messages box) in the backend of his Joomla website, he saw a blank page. A blank page in Joomla, as you […]

Checkboxes Not Showing in the Backend of a Joomla 1.5 Website

Very early in the morning today, a new client sent us the following email: “Hi, We have a Joomla 1.5 website that has been working well for a long time. Yesterday, our host decided to upgrade PHP, which resulted in the following problem on our website: checkboxes are no longer visible anywhere in the backend […]

Alternative Layout Not Working for Your Custom Joomla Module? Read This!

While working on making a very large website responsive over the past few days, we were faced by a small blip. A small, but interesting (and annoying) blip… We wanted to show a different layout for a custom made module (we’re not talking here about Joomla’s Custom HTML module [which is now called just the […]