I recently had a ‘bug’ in Joomla where I’d get “E-mail could not be sent” when sending an article to a friend. The funny thing was, it had worked and I had mail in my inbox to prove it. I tried all the different mail settings and still had nothing. This was when I stumbled on the fact that to prevent spamming of the form, the page needs to wait for 20 seconds before being sent.
When the web was young and developers didn’t know better, everyone used the Click Here type link. You’d have pages where all of the links would be:
Click here to download our brand new software.
All of a sudden, the ‘Powers of Usability’, stated that links should link to what they are talking about, without becoming unusable. Read more »
Sometimes you just want a quick way to set your web files and your directories to the ’standard’ permissions required. Whilst each website requires different levels of access for different users, this is the bare minimum you should be doing.
Sometimes it’s good to keep the fact that you’re running a Joomla site secret. In particular, some hackers might search for the meta tag in your document header saying:
<meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" />
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I thought I’d put together a list of Joomla components and modules that I use on a regular basis or that I’ve had good experiences with. I’m not sponsored by any of these sites, nor have they asked me to post a review, this is just my own personal findings. I hope they help.
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