plugin

• Plugin

  A plugin is a kind of Joomla! extension, in fact the smallest building block of a Joomla site. Plugins provide functions which are associated with trigger events. Joomla provides a set of core plugin events, but any extension can fire (custom) events.

• Show PDF files in your page

  Did you ever needed to show a content of a PDF file in your Joomla page? No, I don't mean link it to be downloadable, but actually show it!

  Until recently the only way to do it was DocMan, with a specialized plugin capable to show preview of the PDF files available for download. Was a solution... but to show one or two files was an overkill. Recently I had this problem again, and invested  a serious amount of time to find this marvel:

• The Smart Search core extension

  Being disabled by default, this very powerful new core component shipped with Joomla 2.5 remains unnoticed by many Joomla site owners. It's time to began to use it and unleash the power hidden here.

• The wrapper module

  One of the most common questions about working with Joomla! is how to embed video in articles. The reason this is a problem is that embedding inherently creates risks because of what might be embedded.

• Use plugins, show modules anywhere in a VirtueMart page

  It's a know fact between VirtueMart insiders, that you can use Joomla plugins in the product descriptions. For that you need to enable this by clicking a checkbox in VirtueMart's main configuration (VirtueMart Admin > Configuration > Global tab > Enable content mambots/plugins in descriptions? checkbox.)

  But what if you want to use plugins elsewhere, in other spots of the VirtueMart pages? For example in some other spot of the product details page - let's say to insert an availability calendar module under the main product image?

  Right, you can do it with a little code hack! Let's make our hands dirty with some PHP then!

• You Do Not Have Access to the Administrator Section of This Site - Reloaded

  After year of using myself the tip You Do Not Have Access to the Administrator Section of This Site successfully today I hit the wall.

  I did one more stunt as the ones described above - but didn't helped.

  But let's see first the failed hack - because that\s interesting too: