Forcing Joomla 2.5 menu items to open in a new window

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When creating new menu items in Joomla 2.5, the default behavior is for those links to open in the same window. Read More >

Changing the Please login first text in Joomla 2.5

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our previous Joomla 2.5 tutorial, we walked you through the steps for preventing public access to your pages. When someone Read More >

Allowing registered users only access in Joomla 2.5

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. From personal experience (from a web hosting technical support rep), I can tell you that many people want the ability to Read More >

Why in Joomla 2.5 is there a star next to a menu item?

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. One of the options in the Joomla 2.5 admin menu is Menus. When you mouse over Menus, you’ll see one of Read More >

How to change your Joomla 2.5 homepage

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When someone visits your Joomla 2.5 site, the first page they see is the Home page. The default setup of Joomla Read More >

Joomla 2.5 Featured Articles – Metadata Options

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Metadata is data that is listed in the header of a page’s HTML. When search engines first began appearing in the Read More >

Joomla 2.5 Featured Articles – Page Display Options

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When creating a featured articles menu item type in Joomla 2.5, you will see a set of options labeled as Page Read More >

Joomla 2.5 Featured Articles – Link Type Options

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. After you’ve created a Joomal 2.5 featured articles menu item, you can adjust the Link Type Options to control how the Read More >

Joomla 2.5 Featured Articles – RSS Integration Options

When creating a Joomla 2.5 featured articles menu item, there are quite a few options you can configure for the page. In this Joomla 2.5 tutorial, we’ll cover the Integration Options specifically, which relate to how RSS feeds are managed. How to access the Joomla 2.5 featured articles integration options: Log into your Joomla 2.5 Read More >

How to Edit a Joomla! 2.5 Template

Joomla! 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Joomla! 2.5 includes a built in editor that you can use to edit the files within your templates. While the template Read More >

How to install a new Joomla 2.5 template

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. One of the more fun (and easy!) things to do in Joomla 2.5 is to change your site’s template. Your site Read More >

How to Delete a Template in Joomla 2.5

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Changing your Joomla 2.5 template is quite easy to do, and deleting templates is just as easy. If you’ve installed a Read More >

How to upload a file using the Joomla 2.5 Media Manager

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. If you need to upload images to your Joomla 2.5 website for use within an article, it’s easiest to upload the Read More >

How can I view my Joomla 2.5 configuration.php settings?

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. There are many settings that you can adjust in Joomla 2.5, such as changing your site’s timezone or changing languages used Read More >

Is my Joomla 2.5 server running suPHP?

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. suPHP is a tool that helps php scripts better handle file ownership and file permission settings. If you’ve ever worked with Read More >

Which version of PHP does my Joomla 2.5 server run?

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. The minimum PHP version number Joomla 2.5 needs to run is PHP 5.2.4. You may want to install certain Joomla 2.5 Read More >

Which version of Joomla 2.5 am I running?

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. The Joomla development team does a good job with releasing new versions of Joomla. These newer versions help fix security holes Read More >

Which php.ini file is my Joomla 2.5 site loading?

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When managing a Joomla 2.5 website, there may be times that you’ll need to adjust various php settings. For example, if Read More >

The PHP temporary directory is not set

While performing regular maintenance on our Joomla 2.5 website, we found the following warning in the extension manager: The PHP temporary directory is not setThe PHP temporary directory is the directory that PHP uses to store an uploaded file before Joomla! can access this file. Whilst the directory not being set isn’t always a problem, Read More >