Tips and Tricks to common Joomla problems

1. Login to same page issue

2. Removing "Home" link on mainmenu

3. Getting rid of Content Page Titles from Frontpage.

  
If you want to remove the page title from each of the content items on the frontpage of your site, you can not just tell each content item to hide it's title. You need to tell the frontpage component to hide the "Item Titles".

Solution:

 Go to Menu > mainmenu, Click "Home" and change "Item Titles" to "hide".

4. Login module appears for Guest and goes away after login

Do you want your guests to see the login module so that they can login and once members log-in the module goes behind the scenes and frees up valuable space?

Solution: 

Firstly, you have to insert this code into anywhere you want your Login form to be in your index.php in your template directory and upload it.

<?php if ($my->id == '0') mosLoadModules ( 'GuestOnly', -2 ); ?>

Note: GuestOnly is a new module position that you have declared.


For example, I placed it together with my left column modules.

    <?php if (mosCountModules('left') > 0) { ?>
    <div id="left">
<?php if ($my->id == '0') mosLoadModules ( 'GuestOnly', -2 ); ?>
            <?php mosLoadModules('left', -2); ?>
            </div>
    <?php } ?>

Next go to Site > Template Manager > Module Positions and add "GuestOnly" into the next
"position" column that is available.

Next go to Modules > Site modules select your login module and change "Position:" to "GuestOnly".

Voila! Your guest see's the module when he/she arrives and if they log-in successfully, the module
would disappear creating more whitespace and keeping things neat and tidy. You can do this with
all modules, just repeat the process.

5. My Google Adsense ad doesn't appear!

Have you tried inserting Google Adsense and it doesn't appear in your content? Yes, you inserted
them, but there is a problem. You inserted your Google codes with the default WYSIWIG editor, TinyMCE.
By doing that, upon submission, TinyMCE will strip some parts of your codes off, for example, <SCRIPT>.
Without these necessary tags, your Adsense will not show the desired ads.

Solution:

Go to Site > Global Configuration > Default WYSIWYG Editor change to No WYSIWYG Editor
and go back and paste your Adsense codes into your contents.

There you have it, 5 new tips and tricks to further customise your Joomla website. Hope you find it useful and it helped you.

Warmest Regards,

Sam Chng

LiveWithFitness.com