Beware of Proprietary Website and CMS Platforms – Don’t Create a Legacy Site!
Recently we have dealt with a number of clients that somehow got smooth talked into creating websites and blogs on proprietary platforms and now they are stuck with poor performing sites that very costly to migrate. A proprietary platform is a hosted website application that stores and displays the pages for your website. This means that the hosting company controls the files and any databases, giving you little to not... read more
Joomla! Hack – Fix Category Trailing Slash CSS Error in SH404SEF
This is more of a: you should know this, rather than a Hack. I had a problem where any page that had its URL formatted by SH404SEF with a trainling slash “/” instead of HTML, lost its CSS properties. Turns out if you manually insert a template file such as in Dreamweaver and upload with that format it will think that the “/” represents a new base directory. Solve this by using Joomla’s own... read more
Joomla! Hack – Add Query String to Chronforms Redirect URL from POST Value
I had an instance where I needed an ID Variable to be placed in the URL as a query so i could pull it down from the next page with Javascript. I wanted the URL Redirect field not to just go to http://www.example.com/thinking.html but tohttp://www.example.com/thinking.html?xID=(ID Variable) In order do do this we need to edit chronocontact.php in components/com_chronocontact On Line 359 we find: $mainframe->redirect($cf_rows[0]->redirecturl); We... read more
Joomla! Hack – Using Chrono forms with HTTPS
go to modules/mod_chronocontact/helper.php change all JURI::base() to JURI::base( true ) This will stop Chronocontact from using default http://www.yoursite.com and use the base directory “/” which then allows Joomla to use HTTPS instead of HTTP. Otherwise JURI will create form POST ACTION to JURI which is in HTTP. ... read more
Joomla! Hack – Save Title Alias with Capital / Uppercase letters
How to stop Joomla from Reformatting your Title Alias to Lowercase I found this core hack a while ago but couldn’t find it again. I searched and searched until eventually I went digging through Joomla files to find out where it was. If you are tired of having Joomla overwrite your Title Alias, or Article Alias, then this hack is for you. This is very useful when transferring over sites from different systems which... read more
Better SEF URL’s for Blogs and News – Joomla! Hack
All credit to this article goes to Ahmad from Alfy Studio. Great work!! sh404SEF is a Joomla! extension helps you creating better SEF URLs. It’s full of features and parameters that helps you to acheieve the format you want for your Joomla! website. On July 24th 2008 the JED editors announced that sh404SEF has been added to the editors’ pick. Development cycle continued and sh404SEF became one of the... read more