5 Reasons Article Saving in Joomla Takes a Long Time

Each day, more and more clients are calling us to address the slow article saving problem that they are experiencing on their Joomla websites. We’re not 100% sure why this is becoming an increasingly common Joomla problem, but we think that it might be that more large sites are using Joomla (though we have no […]

7 Questions to Ask When Switching Your Joomla Site from HTTP to HTTPS

Earlier this week, we published a post on the importance of switching your Joomla website from HTTP to HTTPS, mainly because of a new setting in Chrome and Firefox labeling pages with sensitive forms (such as login forms) as insecure if they are not running in HTTPS mode. Most Joomla administrators think that switching from […]

How Ordering Slows the Saving of Articles on Large Joomla Sites

Note: The solution presented in this post is a core change. Proceed carefully and always backup your website before modifying core files. A few days ago, we received an email from someone managing a very large Joomla website (it was a Brazilian news website). She said that the saving of articles was taking an abnormal […]

Why It’s Important to Switch Your Joomla Website from HTTP to HTTPS

Back in 2013, we have debunked the myth that switching from HTTP to HTTPS will make a Joomla website more secure, and we have explicitly recommended against using it globally. Obviously, times are different now, and while we still haven’t changed our mind that such as switch will not make a Joomla website more secure, […]

Unable to Save/Create Joomla Modules – What to Do?

A client called us this morning and told us that he was unable to create new modules and save existing modules. So, we logged in to his website and checked the problem, and it was like he said: we opened a module, we modified it, and then we saved it, but it wasn’t saving the […]

A Very Weird Joomla Issue

Back in 2011 (yes – that’s 6 years ago!) we published an article titled: “My Joomla Changes Are Not Showing!“. In short, the article stated that when Joomla changes in the backend are not visible on the frontend, then it’s a caching issue. Of course, Joomla has changed substantially between then and now, but typically, […]