Joomla 2.5 How To Resource – Inmotion Hosting
Joomla 2.5 Education Channel by Inmotion Hosting
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Problem: New user registers, but never receives their Activation Email – which means they can NEVER log in. And Joomla does not have a way to resend them their activation email. Solution: wbReactiv Joomla plugin. wbReactiv manually resends Joomla activation email to users who may not have received them yet. It works from Joomla backend and display a…
Problem with JomSocial Upgrade: Upgrading from 3.0.2 to 3.2.1.5 results in a “loop” that never ends the install process. Answer: “Please you find this file administrator/components/com_community/installer.dummy.ini and delete it. It should work then.” Big thanks to Dimas Tekad Santosa from the JomSocial Forums! (must have a JomSocial membership to view). Additional notes: I used the iJoomla-Installer-Updater…
How To Upgrade a PayPlans subscription via Admin Source: Upgrade from back-end Note: PayPlans UPGRADE App must be Published (but it does not have to be added as a Widget to Member’s profiles if only Admin will make Upgrades). From Admin: PayPlans > Subscriptions Search by Username Click ID Click Upgrade button in upper left corner Select new…
Upgraded a Joomla 2.5 Component and suddenly both my Admin and Frontend were a blank screen. Ugh! Time to debug: root > configuration.php > public $error_reporting = ‘default’; Change the word default to maximum. FTP: set permissions of configuration.php on server to 777; upload configuration.php from local to server. View all the pretty error messages. Change…
Problem: Updated Joomla 3.7.0 to 3.7.2 – and lost Joomla’s core Admin Components menu items (Banners, Contact, Joomla Update, Messaging, News Feeds, Redirects, Search, Smart Search). Solution: Ended up running SQL in MySQL database. Note: Change #__menu to yourprefix_menu + change the 2-space “__” to a 1-space “_” (i.e.: prefix__menu to prefix_menu). URL: Upgraded to…
Rotating images using Joomla Articles and RokSprocket Slideshow layout. Create Joomla Articles: Content tab: add text. Images and Links tab: add pre-sized background image to Full Article Image. Create Slideshow: RokSprocket Module: Choose Features – Joomla Content. Under the Joomla Content Filter Rules section: Add Articles. Under the Filtered Article List section (“Show per-article fields” view):…