Joomla 2.5 – Put a Module in an Article

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 Joomla, modules are placed in positions, and those positions are defined by your template. If needed, you can however put Read More >

Joomla 2.5 – Disable mootools

Mootools is a lightweight javascript framework used in Joomla 2.5. Your Joomla website will by default include both mootools-core.js (92.9 KB) and mootools-more.js (233 KB). Mootools is used mostly in your Joomla Admin Dashboard, it is not used often in Joomla templates. UPDATE – 2012.05.11After several months of testing Joomla 2.5 and various components, we Read More >

A review of IP Addresses listed in email headers

Whenever you send an email, your email passes through several different servers before it reaches its destination. Along the way, some servers may add certain text to the headers of the email (email headers include data such as who the message is to/from). For example, your Internet Service Provider (such as Comcast or AT&T) may Read More >

Joomla 2.5 Templates – $this->baseurl

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 quest to review all the PHP code in the index.php file of the Beez2 template, we come to the Read More >

How to use the Joomla 2.5 Language Overrides Tool

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. Much of Joomla 2.5 runs off of language files. These language files store values for commonly used words and phrases, and Read More >

How to Add a New Note for a Joomla 2.5 user

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. A new feature in Joomla 2.5 is the User Notes feature. This feature allows you to log notes on users. Other Read More >

How to upgrade to Joomla 2.5.2

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. On March 5th 2012, the Joomla team released Joomla 2.5.2. It was a security release, so it is very important to Read More >

How to create a new Joomla 2.5 Administrator

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 you manually install Joomla 2.5, the user account that is created is an administrator account. This means that this user Read More >

How to use the Joomla 2.5 Redirect Manager

Joomla 2.5 includes a new handy component referred to as Redirect Manager. The Redirect Manager keeps track of bad URLs, such as 404 file not found URLs, and allows you to easily redirect the broken links to other pages. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the Joomla Redirect Manager. To use the Read More >

How to change the Site Language 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. By default, Joomla 2.5 comes with the English language pack installed. If your site is not intended for English speaking users, Read More >

How to change the timezone 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. When working with time, Joomla 2.5 records dates in UTC time (Coordinated Universal Time). This can really come in handy because Read More >

How to link to other articles within 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. It’s common when writing an article in Joomla 2.5 to link to other articles within your site. While this feature is Read More >

Create a blank database

In a previous step, you were advised to download a copy of your database that you use with your previous hosting provider (if your website uses a database). The end goal will be to migrate those databases to your InMotion Hosting account. At this point, you should have a copy of your database. Before you Read More >

How to configure Joomla 2.5 error.php timezone

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. By default, logs written to Joomla’s logs/error.php file are written in UTC time. There may be instances however when you need Read More >

How to disable user registration 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. If your Joomla 2.5 website is not community driven, for example you don’t have a forum or you don’t allow comments Read More >

How to Configure Joomla 2.5 to Send Email Using SMTP

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. By default, Joomla 2.5 uses the php mail() function to send emails from the server. At InMotion Hosting, our servers support Read More >

biz117 and biz82 Servers affected by DDOS Attack

2012.02.28 10:25am ESTSystems administration has identified a DDOS attack on our biz117 and biz82 servers. While the server is up and on online, at times it may appear that your website is down. Please be aware that this type of attack is not targeted at compromising a server, server security is not the target. You Read More >

How to enable ReCaptcha 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. If you have never seen one before, captchas are parts of a website where you sometimes need to type in a Read More >

How to put your Joomla 2.5 site in Maintenance Mode

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 time to time, you may need to put your Joomla 2.5 site in maintenance mode. Maintenance mode takes your website Read More >

Understanding Global Module Caching in Joomla

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. Enabling caching in Joomla 2.5 is a great way to speed up page load times and reduce server load. While there Read More >