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• Give a boost to your site's search speed

  When one needs something, usually want it fast' and with large, complex Joomla sites that may be a problem. Sometimes the search takes... okay, not forever, but long enough to think about how you can give it some extra speed. Here are some tips and tricks to accelerate Joomla search speed:

• Helix Ultimate 2 | Layout Builder | Quickstart Template | Joomla 4 | Demo Websites | Installation

• Help! I'm Locked Out Of My Site!

  Beginning with Joomla 1.6 it's possible to lock anyone out of the back end of the website — including Super Users with Admin permissions — by setting the Site Admin permission to Deny. And this is something you can do accidentally against yourself by playing with the permissions without knowing how exactly these settings are working. That can have unpleasant side effects especially at the Super User group or at the Manager or Administrator group level. If Manager or Administrator is set to Deny, the Super User would inherit Deny from these groups, even if the Super User group is set to Allow.

• How an author can submit a story?

  We all know that Joomla is all about collaboration. And anyone who had set up at least one instance of Joomla knows, that there are multiple levels of access in Joomla, among them one called Author who is supposedly able to submit an article to a Joomla site from the frontend.

• How do you change the password for your Joomla database

  This is a two step process, and here I'm assuming that you are clever enough and you are hosting with a company that offers cPanel . On other hosting environments the process might be slightly different, but the basics are the same.

• How to configure Joomla to open by more than one domain?

  Did you followed the advices of SEO gurus, and now you have a bunch of domain names, like mydomain.com and mydomain.org, mydomain.info and mybestdomain.net, and you want to use all of them to display your sole, well built Joomla site, but dunno how? Here's the trick you need!

• How to create a simple contact form in Joomla 4 in less than 2 minutes

• How to install Joomla to GoDaddy

  Even if hosting Joomla on GoDaddy can be challenging, and anybody ever built a site on their servers will tell you to turn to some better Joomla host, many people still choose them because of the excellent price/offering ratio. Here are a few tips that will help you get Joomla running on GoDaddy with minimum fuss.

• How to remove the Joomla generator tag

  You use Joomla? Huh... Me too... Did you know, that by this alone you became a potential target for some bad guys out there?

  Like it or not, there are some nerds who are "specialized" themselves in hacking and cracking Joomla sites.

  Scared? Not need too, just be cautious and take some countermeasures. What you can do about?

• How to restrict a user to access only one component in admin

  Sometimes you need to allow a user to access and manage only one (or a few) Joomla! component in the backend. This is quite easy to set up, you need to use cleverly the ACL sytem Joomla has allready in.

• How to sell your downloadable products?

  Yes, things like media files - or your software. No, I don't sell software - I give it away for free, for example here. Bu I build sites with selling capabilities. My favorite solution for it is VirtueMart, THE shop to be used with Joomla.

  Is powerful - but is not for beginners, you can easily lost here without proper guidance.

• How to turn your error reporting level to maximum?

  Anyone who maintained/developed something with or for Joomla, or needed to troubleshoot something on a misbehaving Joomla site knows the feeling: something does not working, and the available error messages aren't showing enough information to help you track down the root of the issue.

  Any extra bit of info can help, so here is a tip for Joomla 1.7 which might help you got that.

• Increase your Joomla site's SEO score with sh404SEF

  If you think, that is enough to build a nice site with a great content to have lots of visitors flowing to your site you're wrong. There are millions of webmasters trying to do the same. And Google and other search engines simply can't find, index and sort all of these sites, and show them to your potential visitors. So you need to do a little more to help these search engines - and to help yourself!

• Infinite loop detected in JError

  Today I have faced a strange, never seen before error. I have worked on recovering a server with couple of old Joomla sites after a major crash, when one of sites ceased to "fly" again, and showed up nothing else but a white screen with this text:

  Infinite loop detected in JError

• Invalid Token, in store config - when try to upgrade VirtueMart

  Time-to-time I am hitting the wall with this, even with 100+ VM sites in my portfolio, and parts of VM core having my signature. Here are few tricks wich usually solves the problem.

• JFolder::create: Could not create directory

  The full error looks like this:

  JFolder::create: Could not create directory
  Warning! Failed to move file.

  You might see this nagging error every once you install something to your Joomla site. Apparently everything working, but - as any errors you see - should alert you: something isn't right with your site, and even if apparently everything works, you might have unexpected problems later!

• JLIB_APPLICATION_ERROR_COMPONENT_NOT_LOADING reloaded

  Suddenly you get the JLIB_APPLICATION_ERROR_COMPONENT_NOT_LOADING all over the place - frontend and backend alike? And you searched the web and get all sorts of confusing tips?

  Look no further - at least until you did not tried this simple trick! (Especially if you just relocated your site recently - or your hosting company did it for you). If you have plenty of space, check the following tip too.

• Joomla 3.x - How to create a multilingual site in 6 steps

• Joomla ACL

  ACL stands for access control levels. It refers to who has permission to do what on the website, including read, create, edit, delete, or log in, among other permissions.

  Many think of ACL as relating to the front end of a website only. For example, when I log into the website, what articles do I have available to me? And if someone else logs into the site, do they see the same articles, or do they see different ones?

• Joomla and Windows file permissions

  As I said elsewhere on the site one of key issues of running Joomla on a Windows server is to understand and apply correctly the Windows files and folders permissioning system to your Joomla install. Instead of writing my own compilation of how-tos, I reproduce here the excellent tutorial written by Russell Winter on the Joomla tutorials site. All kudos are going to him!

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  For those of you that are either developing or delivering your Joomla! Web-Sites from the Windows environment, it is sometimes difficult to obtain relevant information regarding permissions. Unfortunately, it is a fact that most Web-Serving is offered under Unix and that Unix is pretty well documented within this environment. Hopefully the following information will go some way to clearing up any confusion and provide a little guidance.