Q: How do I insert an image into a post?
A: Do it the Wordpress way, not the general website way. Here’s how:
The Wordpress image uploader will resize images for you as it uploads them. However if you have pre-resed them this is fine as well. It is configured to resize them to the follow maximum sizes upon upload: (more…)
Joomla CMS is a great content management system, however saddled with a history of performance issues, meaning slow page load speed. It doesn’t have to be that way, but you need an understanding of the basic (obvious) problems affecting performance as well as some of the techniques useful in the case of Joomla specifically. There are a number of websites dedicated to discussing techniques to improve performance, assuming yours falls in that mediocre performance class. What seems to be lacking in many are case studies with side-by-side comparisons. To tie this together I set up series of Joomla installations with various cacheing type components or plugins enabled/disabled and ran page load time tests on each . The proof is in the pudding. See the results.
When you click to add an item to the cart you sometimes get a message like:
“Your browser does not accept cookies. To put products into your cart and purchase them you need to enable cookies.”
If you have dropdown menu items attached to a Joomlart template and JA_Trona template the dropdown menu items fail to display if you have the Home page selected, but works on other pages. This happens in Internet Explorer, not Firefox, and may also display an error in the bottom toolbar, “Done but with errors on page.” (more…)
After moving my website from a shared hosting server to virtual private server (VPS), depending on which web page I was trying to access I ran into various flavors of this system message and nothing else would display on the web page:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/your_account/public/components/com_wordpress/wp-includes/http.php on line 1067.
Disabling Wordpress removed the error but was not a solution as the blog is important. (more…)
CorePHP’s Wordpress component, 2.8.6, is designed to work with Joomla 1.5.x. The following steps should work in either a shared or private hosting environment. This assumes that you have a valid license and have already purchased and downloaded the software from www.corephp.com. When I license software I download and save it in a folder decicated to that package. When revisions come along I make version some folders and use these to keep from confusing Joomla modules and plugins that were designed for different versions. (more…)
Problem: Get error "License Error: (4) license expired!" when going in to edit a product via the Virtuemart Component of a Joomla 1.5.11 website. (more…)
Acajoom Plus (version 4.0.1), is a good newsletter/subscription component for Joomla 1.5, but it needs a scheduling system that works predicatably so that given the information of how many messages you can send out per hour (by your provider) you can do some simple math calculations to live within the limits and not get labled a spammer.
The current scheduling function is very haphazard, difficult to guess how to set up the cronjob to send out batches.
The problem:Â My Joomla user or member list, even with Captcha enabled, gets some spammers who sneak through and manage to successfully register, even though they may not get their account confirmed. It is time-consuming and annoying to have to routinely go through a large list and manually delete these culprits.
Solution: Although it’s easy to delete members from #Joomla’s jos_users, delete from jos_users where name like ‘%some_criteria%’ this is incomplete because there are a couple other tables impacted by the problem and some confusing residue is left behind.
Note: This post is relevant to Virtuemart 1.1.3 as installed on Joomla 1.5.10. Several of the notes are pertinent to the YOOtheme template, Rollout, but in general may be applicable to other themes.
Installing and configuring the Virtuemart shop will include:
The purpose of the post is as a supplement to official procedures and to introduce a few workarounds to make the cart more user-friendly. (more…)
