I'm the in process of upgrading a Joomla 1.5 website to Joomla 3 using jUpgrade. The upgrade itself went smoothly, but when I installed JComment and tried to import the comments from !JoomlaComment, none of them were showing up under the articles, and in JComment it looked like all comments were to the homepage, as they all had the homepage title under "Content Item Title." I … [Read more...]
Joomla 2.5 Default Captcha Not Displayed: Options
I am working on a project that requires captcha on the Joomla 2.5 registration form. Activating the default recaptcha option in both Global Configuration and User options displayed the "Captcha" label only, not the Recaptcha function. Scouring the forums provided no help in resolving this issue, besides pointing to the option of using a 3rd party extension.There are a … [Read more...]
IE throwing JavaScript Errors using ITPShare Toolbar: Joomla 1.5
Just a quickie! I'm using the ITPShare toolbar, which is a cool Joomla extension that displays social networking icons on one of my Joomla Websites. The extension is a module. It worked great, but with IE set to display JavaScript errors, I was getting and error from the code in that module. A quick search on Google brought me to this forum. Although the forum was for another … [Read more...]
Slideshow Transition Problem in IE7 and IE8
I most recently ran into this problem using JoomlaWorks FrontPage Slideshow (for Joomla 1.5), but have seen it before in other JavaScript slideshow scripts. During the transition, you will see dots in the dark/black areas of the image being transitioned. These dot's can be white, but are actually whatever the color of the background behind the slideshow image is. The problem is … [Read more...]
Active Menu Items and sh404SEF for Joomla 1.5
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 … [Read more...]