Out of Memory Error vs Allowed Memory Error on a Joomla Website

We know, it’s been a couple of weeks since we last wrote a post on this blog – we’re not getting lazy, it’s just that we had quite a few large projects in December. Still, we feel guilty, and so we decided to write a post right now, and if you want to know what […]

Disqus Account Hijacked – What to Do

Let us tell you a little story… A huge Joomla website that we fully manage uses Disqus for commenting. The website receives an insane amount of traffic and it is in the Alexa top 10K websites in the US. About 4 months ago, we noticed that the Disqus commenting section had irrelevant ads, but we […]

List of Website Types That We Are Unable to Work On

Frequently, we get calls from potential clients asking us to fix problems on their Joomla websites, only to find out afterwards that we are unable to do any work for them because of the nature of their websites. Clearly, this leads to disappointment on both ends: the clients need our work and they can’t have […]

A Script to Migrate Articles’ Meta Keywords to Joomla Tags

Note: Before you use our script, please backup your website (filesystem + database). While we have tested our script many times it’s always better to be on the safe side and backup your Joomla website first. Important note: The script is provided “as-is”, we can’t claim responsibility for it. We can’t even claim that it […]

Empty (Not Blank) Joomla Backend – Cause and Fix

Note: Any reference to ‘#__’ in this post must be replaced with the database alias of your website, which is defined in the configuration.php file. This noon, a client called us and told us that whenever he was trying to login to his Joomla website, he was seeing an empty page. He was quick to […]

Why Is It that Joomla Doesn’t Care About the Category Alias in Article URLs

There is a confusing “feature” in Joomla, and it is that the CMS, unintentionally, can have multiple links pointing to the same article. For example, if you go to the following URLs http://www.[your-joomla-website]/category-1/12-test-article.html and http://www.[your-joomla-website]/category-2/12-test-article.html then both URLs will work despite the fact that they point to the same article, and despite the fact that […]