Joomla Articles

Which version of Joomla should you use?

October 18th Information and Tutorials \ Joomla CMS With more than one Joomla release available, it isn’t always clear which one is the best one to use. Currently there are a number of stable versions, including version 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7, and it is worthwhile comparing these versions to understand why you might use one version over another. Continue reading...

Why Does My Joomla Web Site Have a Blank Page?

November 29th Information and Tutorials \ Joomla CMS So you've just installed a new component, module or plugin, or made some other change to your site's PHP code. You've enabled it on the Joomla backend and configured its settings just right. Then you browsed to your web site's home page and found that there is only a blank page displayed, a white screen with nothing else. Don't panic, you just have a PHP error. Continue reading...

Solution for Error: Upload module - Failed

Upload module - Failed. There is already a file called /home/folder/www/modules/blah_blah_blah.php - Are you trying to install the same CMT twice?

November 30th Information and Tutorials \ Joomla CMS This is an error I have run into several times with Joomla 1.0.x. You go to install a module, apparently one you've already installed previously. I've been frustrated with this before, and I know many others have as well. It's a very simple problem (which highlights a bug in Joomla's module handling, but will probably never be fixed in the 1.0.x version of the CMS) and luckily it has a simple solution. Continue reading...

Do Not Use Quotes or Special HTML Characters in Your Article Titles

It can be very easy to add quotes or an apostrophe to the title of a new article, but don't do it! For example, I could have made the title of this article Don't Use Quotes or Special HTML Characters in Your Article Titles but I resisted using that apostrophe. Several plugins and components process the data stored in the title, title alias, meta description and meta keywords and do not always account for quotes or special characters so it is a good idea to avoid them.