Joomla! Secrets
As a member of the Joomla! Bug Squad I often find myself delving around in the innermost parts of this popular CMS package. This section of the site is a growing collection of articles about the interesting and useful things I have discovered whilst doing this.
Joomla Extension Builder (JoomExtBuild) Script
- Last Updated : Tuesday, 11 December 2012
- Originally Posted : Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Joomla Extension Builder is a set of scripts written to automate some of the steps in the workflow of developing Joomla extensions. Written in the phing scripting language.
Read more of: Joomla Extension Builder (JoomExtBuild) Script
Joomla! "Cakecrumbs" Extension
- Last Updated : Friday, 21 December 2012
- Originally Posted : Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Joomla's built-in Breadcrumbs module is just plain vanilla. Give your web sites a treat and upgrade to Cakecrumbs (if you can swallow the painful puns), the tastier version that gives you the options you need to enhance appearance and usability. I'm sure this extension would have received royal endorsement had it been available in the 18th Century.
Availability: now released – download from here.
"Breadcrumbs Plus" Module
- Last Updated : Tuesday, 14 August 2012
- Originally Posted : Thursday, 29 December 2011
The features provided by this module are now part of the "official" breadcrumbs module (mod_breadcrumb) distributed as part of Joomla 1.5.x and later versions. Therefore this module is no longer available or supported.
Update: if you are using Joomla! V2.5.x, you may be interested to know about an enhanced pathway module for this version – "Cakecrumbs". See here for details.
Joomla! "AccessByIP" Extension
- Last Updated : Thursday, 16 August 2012
- Originally Posted : Monday, 14 May 2012
Sometimes it would be great to be able to allow access to a chosen Joomla! user account without the barrier of users having to type in a user-name and password, for example giving company intranet users instant access to a corporate intranet or maybe just when needing to troubleshoot a site. This extension is the answer – It offers automatic authentication to a nominated user account, either based on the IP address of the user's browser, or an automatic "click and enter" option without any security checks at all.
Availability: now released – download from here.
Joomla Multisite
- Last Updated : Saturday, 31 December 2011
- Originally Posted : Wednesday, 07 December 2011
During a major overhaul of my web sites I have taken down some pages describing some code and hints on how to implement a sort of multi-site system in Joomla!. This was effectively obsolete as the techniques described were only suitable for use with Joomla! V1.0.x
Use Your Log
- Last Updated : Wednesday, 11 January 2012
- Originally Posted : Saturday, 31 December 2011
It's very possible that you have not encountered the "log" function in Joomla as it used to be somewhat of a hidden feature. However things have changed since the release of V1.7.
