Text Entry for Home – Joomla 3 Breadcrumb settings

In our last article, we showed you how to remove “Home” from your Joomla 3 breadcrumbs. If you wanted to keep “Home” but change the text to something else, you can. For example, you can have “Blog” show instead of “Home” in your breadcrumbs. One of the Joomla 3 breadcrumb settings, Text for Home Entry, Read More >

Hiding “Home” in your Joomla 3 Breadcrumbs

As we continue reviewing the settings available for Joomla’s breadcrumb module, the next setting we see is Show Home. Joomla’s documentation defines the setting as follows: Show Home Show/Hide the Home element in the Pathway Below, we will show you how toggling this setting on/off will affect your breadcrumbs. To remove “Home” in your Joomla Read More >

Removing “You are here” in your Joomla 3 Breadcrumbs

If you are using the breadcrumbs module in Joomla 3, you may have noticed that the breadcrumbs’ pathway begins with a You are here pinpoint. If you don’t want this pinpoint to show, you can disable it within the breadcrumb module’s settings. How to disable the “You are here” feature: Login to your Joomla 3 Read More >

Increase in Joomla Brute Force Attacks

What’s happening? Over the past several weeks, our System Administration Team has identified an exponential increase in brute force attacks against Joomla driven websites. Question What is a brute force attack against a Joomla website? Answer A brute force attack against a Joomla website involves bots repeatedly trying to login to your Joomla /administrator by Read More >

Product Descriptions in PrestaShop 1.6

When adding a product in PrestaShop 1.6, there are fields available to type in a Short description and a Description (long description). Question: How do you know what to type into the short description and what to type in the long description? Answer: Knowing where short descriptions and long descriptions are used within your store Read More >

Protect your Joomla 3 admin dashboard from Brute Force logins

The Admin Tools Joomla component can be used to protect your Joomla website against brute force attacks. In a snutshell, a brute force attack is when hackers repeatedly guess your Joomla password over and over again until they get it right and login to your dashboard. Enabling the password-protect administrator feature within Admin Tools adds Read More >

Admin Tools Core – Installation guide for Joomla 3

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install the Admin Tools Core Joomla component. With this component, you can perform certain administrative tasks such as password protecting your dashboard, changing your Joomla database prefix, and more. We’ll cover these topics in future tutorials. To install Admin Tools: Download the latest stable version of Admin Read More >

Creating an Add Event JEvents menu item in Joomla 3

Now that you’ve installed the JEvents Joomla 3 calendar component, the next thing to do is allow users to add events. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to create a link on your site called Add an event. When users click this menu link, they’ll be taken to a form where Read More >

Artisteer 4 and Joomla 3.2

Artisteer is a desktop program you can use to easily create templates for software such as Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress. I’ve known of the software for a few years now, but have never used it. Today, I’ve decided to test out the software, and this article is a brief summary of my experience. Heads up! Read More >

Menu Location settings in Joomla 3

Joomla Menu Location Settings: Available Options What does this setting do? How to change When configuring menu items in Joomla 3, the Menu Location setting controls which menu the item belongs to. If you want to move a link to a different menu, you need to change the link’s (aka menu item’s) Menu Location setting. Read More >

Template Style settings in Joomla 3

The Template Style setting for Joomla 3 menu items controls which Joomla template the target page will use. This means that you have the ability to use certain templates for some pages but not others. In a standard installation of Joomla 3, you will have the Protostar template and the Beez3 template installed. In this Read More >

Target Window Settings in Joomla 3

When working with menu items in Joomla 3, one of the settings you will find is Target Window. This setting controls which browser window the menu item link will open into. In this tutorial we will review the available options for Target Window: Parent, New Window With Navigation, and New Without Navigation. Target Window Options Read More >

Changing Page Display options for Joomla 3 menu items

When creating a Joomla menu item, you will find that most menu item types have Page Display settings. In this article, we are going to review two of the options found within Page Display settings: Browser Page Title and Page Heading. What do these settings do? In our testing, we are working with a Login Read More >

Joomla Menu Item Types

What is a Joomla Menu Item Type? When setting up a Joomla menu item, you need to choose the menu item type. The menu item type defines what and how the content on the next page will look like. For example, if you choose the Single Article menu item type, that link will direct users Read More >

Joomla configuration.php file changes over time

In this tutorial: Sample Config Files Changelog Joomla’s configuration.php file has changed quite a bit over time. Some of the changes can cause compatibility concerns with upgrades to newer versions. I came across a change in Joomla 3.2 that has caused some problems with email. To help others troubleshoot problems possibly caused by configuration.php conflicts, Read More >

New in Joomla 3.2 – Access Control and Easy Editing for Modules

In this tutorial, we will review two new module features released in Joomla 3.2: access control and easy editing. Module Permissions New in Joomla 3.2 is access control for modules. In prior versions of Joomla, the Module Manager tool in the backend dashboard did not include a Module Permissions tab. In Joomla 3.2, you can Read More >

How to Edit a Joomla 3 Template

Much like Joomla 2.5, the Joomla 3.x series includes a template editor available within the admin dashboard. The template editor allows you to edit your template directly within your browser. This is helpful and sometimes more efficient than editing files using ftp or another method. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps Read More >

Which version of jQuery comes with Joomla 3?

We’ve already seen that the admin user experience has been updated and improved with the release of Joomla 3.2. Similar to these backend changes, the Joomla template system has been given an update as well. In Joomla 3.2 we see newer versions of jQuery and Bootstrap being used, as well as the addition of jQuery Read More >