More Questions Than Answers

Dan Atrill's blog site

Joomla 1.7 strips html code from articles

The issue of html tags being stripped from content vexed a lot of people in version 1.5 of Joomla. Using the JCE editor helped, along with turning off the WYSIWYG editor. In Joomla 1.7 it’s a lot simpler to add html code, like an embedded Google map, using the editor. But first you need to [...]

more... »

Mon, October 17 2011 » Joomla, Web developing » No Comments

Trying to custom rewrite URLs in Joomla

I’m trying to rewrite a URL in Joomla 1.5.21 so that instead of it showing as page.html?query=first+second it shows as page/first/second/ There’s some very useful recipes here: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/RewriteQueryString And my question in more detail is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7255243/using-rewritequerystring-with-joomla if anyone has an answer.

more... »

Wed, August 31 2011 » Joomla, Web developing » No Comments

Joomla 1.6 Released

The new version of Joomla has now been released according to their website and this story: Joomla!® 1.6.0 is now available for immediate download Features include Finer Access Controls for user groups and viewing levels, configurable categories and style improvements. There’s much more. I gave the Release Candidate a go and it was a great [...]

more... »

Tue, January 11 2011 » Joomla, Promotion, software, Web developing » No Comments

Joomla security article

This just appeared in the Joomla Community Magazine: 777 The Number of the Beast by Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos It’s an extremely helpful article explaining security issues when installing and working with Joomla.

more... »

Mon, January 10 2011 » Apache, Joomla, PHP, Security » No Comments

New DJA website

London-based website development company DJA has launched their 2011 website. Offerings include WordPress and Joomla website development. Check it out at www.djaonline.co.uk

more... »

Mon, January 10 2011 » Joomla, PHP, Promotion, Web developing, Wordpress » No Comments

Create an RSS feed from a Joomla category

I’ve spent the afternoon looking for an answer to how to create an RSS feed from a Joomla category. Almost every search yields the same answer, use a feed aggregator / reader to load the feed onto your site. No, I want it the other way round. Feed results via RSS from a category on [...]

more... »

Wed, December 8 2010 » Joomla, Web developing » No Comments