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 Resend button next to each user who has not yet activated her account.
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FIX for “No HTTP response code found” (NOTE: This is for Joomla 2.5.16 ONLY!) When attempting to upgrade an old Joomla site from v2.5.16 to 2.5.27, “No HTTP response code found” appears in the Joomla Control Panel, under the RSFirewall! Control Panel Module section. And when I go to: Components > Joomla! Update all I…
Problem: PayPlans Joomla Extension Subscription page heading reads: “Select to subscribe.” But the client wants it to read “Select to Join.” Solution: How to use the Joomla 2.5 Language Overrides Tool – In Motion Hosting Admin dashboard > (hover over) Extensions > Language Manager > Overrides > New > Search (with Value radio button selected)…
Background: Annual Conference has wrapped up. Allow attendees to download this year’s presentations (in PDF format) from Conference’s membership site. Approach: Create unique User account so only this year’s attendees can access PDFs (both members and non-members). A special Membership Plan also needs to be created (otherwise visitors won’t be able to log in and access…
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…
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…
Giving the Front Page a different style from other pages – from Joomla Docs I specifically used the following CSS method from the above post: Assigning CSS style on the body element in your template Edit the file “index.php” in your default template directory Then, you can write CSS rules which style the component differently…