12 Mar

How to make URLs in Joomla search engine friendly

Posted by Anthony, under Tutorials

1) Login to your FTP.
2) Find htaccess.txt file (normally in public_html folder) and rename it to .htaccess
3) Go to Joomla! admin panel => Global Configuration => Site
4) Change select yes to all three SEO options. The action of the three parameters is as follows:

  • Search Engine Friendly URLs. Converts the URLs from the native Joomla! format to the SEF format.
  • Use Apache mod_rewrite. Uses the Apache “mod_rewrite” function to eliminate the “index.php” portion of the URL. If you don’t want to use mod_rewrite, set this to “No” and don’t rename the htaccess.txt. The SEF URLs feature will still work. The only difference is that you will see “index.php” in the URL, for example, http://www.yoursite.org/index.php/faq.html.
  • Add suffix to URLs. Adds “.html” to the end of URLs.

Done! Now your site will have search engine friendly URLs.
Enjoy!

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12 Mar

Changing a theme for WP blog

Posted by Anthony, under Tutorials

Hi, today, I’ve changed a theme of my blog. It is now more bright and clean.
The original idea was just to have a couple of pages where visitor can read about services I provide (free blog setup is the main service, but apart from that I offer hosting discounts and technical support for any issues connected with web design), but a few months ago I decided to write some posts from time to time, so the old design didn’t suit my needs.

It is very easy to change a theme for WP blog. If you want to know how to do that, watch the tutorial below.

WordPress: How to Change Themes

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08 Mar

Translating Polls in Joomla! using Joomfish

Posted by Anthony, under Tutorials

A lot of people who run multilingual sites on Joomla! have problem with translating polls.
The problem is related to the MySQL driver. If you switch to MySQLi “with i” it works right out of the box. This is the preferred driver for JoomFish. Alternatively you can change the modules/mod_poll/helper.php file a bit:
in getPollOptions function set

Code:
$query = ‘SELECT p.id, p.text’ .
            ’ FROM #__poll_data as p’ .
            ’ WHERE p.pollid = ‘ . (int) $id .
            ’ AND p.text <> “”‘ .
            ’ ORDER BY p.id’;

And it will be working with no problems at all :)

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05 Mar

What is Ping? Plus All-Inclusive Ping List for WordPress

Posted by Anthony, under Tutorials

A lot of blogers (even those who have been blogging for a while) don’t know what in the WordPress’ admin panel they have poverfull weapon for increasing their blog popularity. It is so called Update Services  that can be used to let other people know you’ve updated your blog. WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post.

The most popular service is Ping-O-Matic and it is already listed by default in your blog. But you can increase your blog popularity by adding more Update Services. You can do that very easily. Just read THIS ARTICLE and follow it’s instructions. Good luck in blogging!

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04 Mar

How to move your wordpress blog to another hosting

Posted by Anthony, under Tutorials

Sometimes you have to move your wordpress blog to another hosting. It is very hard to for people who don’t know how.  And it will cost you about 50-70$ if you will get a qualified support. But with these two step-by-step video tutorials you will be able to do that by yourself with no problems at all. I hope it will help you!

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01 Mar

How to restore password for Joomla

Posted by Anthony, under Tutorials

There is a small minus in Joomla! – if you forget the password for your admin panel, you can not setup a new one by clicking on the link below login form, like you do, for example in WordPress.

When such problem happens, a beginners don’t know what to do, ask question on forums and get advices like “back up you database, then delete it, then reinstall Joomla!, then create a user, then restore your database” and so on. It takes a long time and normal person spends a lot of nerves doing that. :)

There is one very simple way. You can restore password though your PhpMyAdmin panel. The video below will quide you through the process. Good luck!

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