Content Management Systems

If you have chosen the Category List as your Menu Type for the menu item the filter option is usually on by default. To remove this option , simply open the Menu Item and locate to the Parameters option on the right hand side of the screen. Open the Parameters option and there will be an option to hide or show the filter. eg. Filter:  x HIDE x SHOW

If you have a menu item with type “Category List” then it’s under the Basic Parameters options. More on this click here Unfortunately there isn’t an easy option for this yet in type “Section Layout“. To remove the Article Filtering option you need to do some code modifications. Locate the following filecomponents\com_content\views\category\tmpl\default_items...

How to access only the component heading/title in a Joomla! 1.5template when building a new template and the component heading needs to be in a strategic place on the template. Answer: Insert the following code where you need to have the component heading displayed on the template. //Open PHP tag <?php //First we instantiate the document object, to get all document details.  $document =&...

How to access only the component heading/title in a Joomla! 1.5template when building a new template and the component heading needs to be in a strategic place on the template. Insert the following code where you need to have the component heading displayed on the template. //Open PHP tag <?php //First we instantiate the document object, to get all document details.  $document =&...

What to do if you receive the following error “XML Parsing Error at 1:1. Error 4: Not well-formed (invalid token)” when installing a Joomla! module. Explanation: The files in the module have been zipped using an Apple MAC. The MAC adds an extra folder called __MACOSX into the modules zip file. Follow these steps in order to solve the problem. STEP 1 Unzip (Extract) the modules zip...

Since Joomla! 1.5 this feature has been made available. Answer: STEP 1 Via FTP copy the following file (default_items.php ) from your Joomla! 1.5 installation files to your local machine. Path to default_items.php  ROOT_PATH/components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/default_items.php NOTE: For FTP use your favorite FTP client eg. FileZilla STEP 2 Open the file and edit it as you want...

What is a favicon? A favicon is a small 16px X 16px square image with the .icoextension that appears on the left side of the URL in the addressbar and on the browsers tabs. Answer: Follow these steps in order to successfully create a favicon for you’re Joomla! site. STEP 1 Create a square pixel image with height 16px and width 16px using a graphic tool like Gimp or Photoshop. Save the image...

I get the following error  “Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbcore/cb.core.php on line 240” when trying to edit my Community Builder profile. How can I solved this? NOTE: Received this error using Joomla! 1.5.10 together with Community Builder 1.1   Answer: Locate the following file in the root directory of...

Clear all COOKIES in your browser
Refresh Page
Try again and it should work

This happens since the Wrapper Module is published with each new Joomla! Installation and there isn’t a URL to wrap.
There are 2 ways to solve this issue

Unpublish the Wrapper Module or
Provide a URL to wrap

Open the Joomla! Administrator backend section Click on Content->Article Manager Create a new Article Type anything in the article and click on apply not save Highlight a selection of text or images and click on the link button A dialog box will appear, within the Link URL textfield type in the following index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id= Type the article ID at the end of...

Locate the root directory of your Joomla! installation via FTP or any other method
Download the latest language pack from 
Unzip the file
Open the folder where the extracted files are located
Choose the language PHP file that you wish to install and copy it over to thelibraries/geshi/geshi directory

Joomla! 1.0 In order to apply this solution, you need to have modifying access to your Joomla! 1.0 core files Locate the following file within your Joomla! installation and open it in a text editor. FILE: /administrator/components/com_media/admin.media.php Round about lines 170 and 200 you’ll find something like:   'bmp', 'csv', 'doc', 'epg', 'gif', 'ico', 'jpg', 'odg', 'odp', 'ods', 'odt'...

This text usually appears in the header of your webpage. NOTE: Before applying any changes, always remember to take a backup of the previous state. Answer: Click on Extensions->Template Manager The Template Manager page will now open, click on the name of the relevant template “The template that is selected for your site“ Click on the Edit Html button Search and Remove for the...

In the Joomla! 1.5 Administration Panel click on Extensions->Plugin Manager
Locate the Editor – TinyMCE plugin and open the properties.
Under Plugin Parameters locate Template CSS classes and set it to no
Save the change and the black background should disappear.

The error is similar to the below and it has to do with the readfile php function. Error: invalid regular expression flag v Source File: [0]=/themes/default&file[0]=theme.js&subdir[1]=/js&file[1]=functions.js&subdir[2]=/js/admin_menu/js&file[2]=virtuemart_menu.js&subdir[3]=/js/admin_menu/js&file[3]=nifty.js&subdir[4]=/js/admin_menu/js&file[4]=fat...

In your code add the following code to activate the tooltip behavior JHTML::_('behavior.tooltip'); This only needs to be added once per file. A good place to put it is just underneath the defined(‘_JEXEC’) or die(‘Restricted access’); at the top of the page. The tooltip behavior will put the following code automatically in the head section of your HTML page <script...

To disable the sending of the welcoming email clear/blank the Welcome/Pending email messages that are defined in the CB Configuration Manager under the Registration tab. (Components->Community Builder->Configuration->Registration)

I’ve noticed this error when I installed VirtueMart and in the checkout process where it asks if you are a returning visitor or new user I noticed that the radio buttons did not work. This error occurs since Joomla! uses mootools and I used JQuery in my template. Thus causing the two to conflict since both mootools and JQuery make use of the $-function. Please check the answer to see how...