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Rochen Upgrades Joomla Forum Infrastructure

Rochen Upgrades Joomla Forum Infrastructure

As the Joomla Forum grows and demands on hardware increase, some of the community members that frequent the popular message board have noticed some performance issues, and have even experienced site errors due to the increase in traffic. As more and more users took advantage of the Advanced Search feature, the site began to display the message: "Sorry but the board is temporarily unavailable, please try again in a few minutes." This began to occur with some regularity.

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Module

Module
Module:
A module is one of the smaller extension types, generally used to help with page display. A website administrator can "place" modules in various positions on a web page through the Module Manager in the back end of Joomla.

Through the use of Modules, the front end and the back end of Joomla really come together. Modules can display specific information from the Joomla database in any number of ways and depending on your template, in any number of locations on the page. Some examples of Joomla Modules include Banners, Menus and Contacts.

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Joomla Hidden Menus

Joomla Hidden Menus

If you've built static websites before, making the transition to a dynamic site such as Joomla can cause frustration. Seemingly simple tasks can end up being a nightmare. That's potentially the case when you need to create a hidden page. But there is an easy way around this as demonstrated in this week's video tutorial.

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Douglas W McNeil
Richard, This seems like a convoluted way of accomplishing that task. What is the advantage to doing it this way? I solved th... Read More
Thursday, 26 July 2012 01:23
Richard Pearce
How do you "get to the page"? You need to know the URL. And the URL needs to include the Itemid, otherwise Joomla doesn't know whi... Read More
Thursday, 26 July 2012 07:11
Douglas W McNeil
Sorry Richard, I guess I left out one part. I am using Fox Contact which just has a drop down menu for the article I want to ... Read More
Sunday, 29 July 2012 22:54
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Menu Item

Menu Item
Menu Item:
An entry in a Joomla Menu that links a URL to a specific page on a website, along with that page's style settings and layout. Menu Items determine both the main content of a page and the way that the content is displayed.

The number of Menu Item Types available will vary depending on the number of extensions installed in a Joomla website. Often, there will be one or more Menu Item Types that are specific to each extension. This is in addition to the default Article display types and others automatically installed with Joomla.

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YOOtheme Updates Widgetkit for an Improved Image Gallery

YOOtheme Updates Widgetkit for an Improved Image Gallery

Widgetkit 1.1 was released a mere three weeks ago, adding support for responsive design, but YOOtheme has quickly put some updated functionality in the hands of users looking to improve their image galleries with Widgetkit 1.2.

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Minimal Skins Brings Simplicity Back to Joomla Design

Minimal Skins Brings Simplicity Back to Joomla Design

Minimal Skins truly does bring minimal design to Joomla templates. Their focus is mainly on photography based portfolio websites and blogs, and their strength is in the fact that they allow the subject to dictate the overall design.

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Apptha Lets Joomla Developers Have Their Very Own Pinterest Site

Apptha Lets Joomla Developers Have Their Very Own Pinterest Site

Extensions for Joomla can range anywhere from a small plugin that sits inconspicuously in the background performing some small function to full blown applications. Social Pinboard for Joomla is definitely the latter. Apptha has created an extension that is in iteself an entire web build. In fact, your only template option when setting up Social Pinboard is the Social Pinboard template, making it much more of a web solution than only a Joomla extension.

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Richard Pearce
Yes but there is some additional setup required outside of Joomla to get it working.
Saturday, 28 July 2012 06:45
Richard Pearce
The developer has documentation on their site at http://www.apptha.com/pinterest-clone-for-joomla... Read More
Tuesday, 31 July 2012 06:53
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CircleZ Brings a Non-Linear Approach to Joomla Templates on Themeforest

CircleZ Brings a Non-Linear Approach to Joomla Templates on Themeforest

Themeforest author, geceolurken, has updated one of their highly stylized Joomla themes suitable for web designers and anyone wishing to showcase features of a creative business. The template ships with 7 color schemes and has been designed with some responsiveness in mind to scale between desktop computers and tablet devices.

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How to Install Joomla Extensions Manually

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Robin McCamont
Seems like I'm learning this stuff "one step ahead of you releasing your articles", Richard! However, this is really great stuff,... Read More
Thursday, 19 July 2012 08:07
Tristan Montano
Hy everyone, I want to use Community builder, i downloaded it and tried to install it through the installer, but the same error a... Read More
Wednesday, 06 March 2013 04:52
Richard Pearce
You're uploading the wrong file. Some extensions, and I'm pretty sure this includes Community Builder, need to be extracted before... Read More
Wednesday, 06 March 2013 09:14
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YouJoomla Releases Template of the Month for July - YouTrader

YouJoomla Releases Template of the Month for July - YouTrader

YouTrader is the latest responsive template from YouJoomla, and it offers a solution for those wanting to put together a website based around selling cars. The main feature that YouJoomla believes sets this template apart from the car themed templates on the market is the robust filtering system built in.

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