Questions tagged [recommended-practices]
Recommended Practices are informal rules that the Joomla community has learned over time which can help improve the quality of a website or an extension.
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What is an efficient way to troubleshoot a “white screen of death”
Quite a few times I have been in a position where the front-end of a Joomla website is a blank screen with no content, sometimes known as a "white screen of death".
This has occurred after a website ...
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Recommended practices regarding Joomla file/directory permissions and ownership on linux systems?
In the past I’ve often run into trouble with permissions and ownership of Joomla files/directories on linux systems.
Problems included
Not being able to transfer files to the server using programs ...
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Overriding Core Components Model Form XML
I want to change the Field type for the Article's Links, from input text to DropDown List with internal menu items. I am looking for a convenient way to do this with the minimum work.
I can't find ...
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Should I use JResponse::setBody or onContentPrepare for strings replacements?
I am developing a shortcodes plugin that searches trough Joomla content and creates html outputs from the matched string.
Currently I am using this
public function onContentPrepare($context, &...
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How to add a composer package without modifying the core composer.json file
I am trying to add a Composer Package and make it globally available but I do not want to modify core composer.json for obvious reasons.
Is the only way to do this having a composer.json either on ...
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Load K2 article with ajax
I am using the category layout to feature articles on my front page with joomla 3.3. I am customizing this view so that the article links pull the articles into this page via ajax on click.
This is ...
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Developing Outside the CMS
I have a question, I have an already constructed site, we use Joomla for the CMS, and a theme from RocketTheme called "Diametric". We are looking to construct a page and it's styling is going to fall ...
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Add a custom button to a core backend component
Is it possible to add a custom button (with a custom action, of course) to the JToolbar of a standard Joomla 3 component (com_contents) without modifying the original source code?
Background: I need ...
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Why does a Joomla distribution still contain index.html in each folder?
There has been an PR to remove the index.html files, but it was never applied. Why is that?
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Pagination confusion - Pagination uses start, PopulateState uses limitstart?
I'm a bit confused.
When I look at the link created by pagination in the front end, I see a query parameter called start included in the individual page number links and Start and End links.
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