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Active Menu Items and sh404SEF for Joomla 1.5

Posted by admin in CMS, joomla, joomla extensions, search engine optimization, sef urls, seo, web design on January 27th, 2010

It’s pretty common to have the same global navigation items it both the main navigation and footer links of a website. Be careful though, if you are using an SEF URL extension for Joomla 1.5, such as sh404SEF. Having multiple menu items pointing to the same article or ItemId can disable the active menu styling. Instead, use the standard Joomla menu links for the main navigation, and set up the footer navigation with external type menu items, pointing to the sef urls created for the main navigation.

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Joomla 1.5 Page Title

Posted by admin in joomla, joomla extensions, search engine optimization, seo, web design on August 6th, 2009

Page titles in Joomla 1.5 are not particularly configurable. I prefer to use an SEO extension, which gives me total control of my page titles and metatags, but I understand the reluctance to rely on a non-commercial extension. Will it be around for Joomla 1.6? Who knows?

The problem with Joomla 1.0.X page titles was that they insisted on putting the site name in the page title. Joomla 1.5 cured that disease, but some people would still like to have their site name in their page title consistently across the site. For that, the perfectly simple solution is the Title Manager extension for Joomla 1.5 (native).

Download, install and activate this plugin, and you will have your Joomla site name, or another text string of your choosing in all page titles. You can even configure whether or not the page title goes before or after the original page title, as well as the seperator character. Here’s a peek at the configuration screen:

Joomla 1.5 Page Title Plugin

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Joomla 1.5 Breezing Forms Error - 404 - Article #0 not found

Posted by admin in CMS, joomla, joomla extensions on April 30th, 2009

I’ve been using the Breezing Forms fork of the Facile Forms powerful form creation component and module for Joomla 1.5 for a while now. During development of a recent project, however, I suddenly starting having problems. Upon form submission, I’d get sent to a 404 page with the error message “Article #0 not found.”

After addressing every possible cause I could think of, in desperation I tried turning Legacy Mode off. It worked! Go to Plug-in Manager > System - Legacy, and click off if it is enabled.

Of course I needed to scramble a bit to eliminate the need for Legacy mode. I found out the hard way that Joomla 1.5 Legacy mode and Breezing Forms don’t mix!

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!JoomlaComment 2.40 - Commenting Component for Joomla CMS

Posted by admin in joomla, joomla extensions on September 8th, 2007

!JoomlaComment 2.40 is probably the best free commenting component available for Joomla content management system (CMS). Unfortunately, that may not be good enough for those Joomla developers or web site owners without a lot of coding, troubleshooting and hacking experience, because it is pretty buggy.

First of all, if you aren’t using Community Builder, you are going to get the following error when you try to use this component:

joscomment Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()

It’s an easy enough fix, if you are comfortable commenting out some code. The instructions can be found here: http://www.haanchiang.com/joomla-comment . Also available on that page is a downloadable version of the component with that and a couple of other patches already installed. I installed the haanchiang version right after I got the first error, so didn’t have to deal with the other errors described on the page.

After that was solved, I set the admin to allow anyone to post, but required that the posts be approved before publishing. When filling out the comment form and hitting send, I got the following error:

Database error: insertNewPost!

The post, however was inserted into the database and I could publish it just fine. More than just an annoyance, however, because the user would tend to think the post wasn’t accepted, and may try again. Because I haven’t been able to fix it, I have no choice but to remove !JoomlaComment from my Joomla installation. In searching for a solution, however, I did find a lot of posts about various other bugs that people are experiencing with this component. If this is version 2.4, I’d recommend waiting for 9.2 before giving this component a try.

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