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Tips and Tricks to common Joomla problems

Written by Sam Chng
Friday, 20 April 2007
Tips and Tricks to common Joomla problems Joomla is an amazing content management system and it does a brilliant job and tons of breaktaking websites have used Joomla as a platform. IT's never a wrong choice, as it is easy to use, configure and maintain. Not to mention it's free! But it comes with minor problems here and there (Joomla v1.0.2), which can be easily solved! They are not entirely free of minor problems. I would rather call it workarounds to futher customise this incredible piece of software. We will go through some customisation that can be done to further enhance your Joomla website. 1. Login to same page issue Tried to log-in as a user and end up on the same page and the member menu doesn't show up? Yes, we get what you mean. You see Joomla writes a cookie everytime you log-in. Sometimes it may get messed up and you are unable to login. Solution: Place a text like this "<p>If logging in doesn't work, click 'Remember Me' before logging in." in the "post text" box in the "Login Form" module in Modules > Site modules. or a better way would be to install Community Builder and change the option in "Remember-me checkox" to "yes" in the CB Login module. 2. Removing "Home" link on mainmenu Have you thought that the default "Home" link on your mainmenu is not necessary or a duplicate on your site? Yes, removing it and your frontpage will break and your design go haywire? Solution: By definition, the "Home" menu item in the mainmenu is the homepage. If you don't want this to show up, go to Modules > Site modules, choose the main menu and then under "Pages / Items", set it to show on NONE pages. Then create a different menu in Menu > Menu Manager. You can name it "newmenu" and use it in the place of mainmenu for your navigation, but now without the "Home" link. 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 Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (5) Joomla user login problems written by B Norman, December 13, 2007 The problem I am having is that when testing after I register a user, no verification link is sent to the user. I then have to go in and confirm the registration. Not only that I have to change the user from public to author in order for the user to access many of the pages. thanks written by free joomla template, November 23, 2007 i just fix a problem after read this article ... written by Mike, November 01, 2007 Thanks! I was going nuts trying to figure out how to get the title off my front page. nice selection of common problems written by Jano, July 07, 2007 I had all of these problems during my joomla training period. In a way, I feel glad that it wasn't only me. Main menu help written by Irshad kazi, May 24, 2007 Hello sir, How to change main menu. When i click menu the display sub menu's but i will done it on mouse over sub main will display which cange i can do? please help me !!! Irshad Kazi Write comment Name Email Website Title Comment Write the displayed characters
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