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I want to have a background music played on my site's homepage. Preferably without the controls. So that the music would start playing on its own (ie, without user's interaction). I tried different ...

I currently develop a FieldPlugin for myself. I noticed some things and don't understand them fully right now. My plugin works in the backend perfect, but raises errors on the frontend, so I did some ...

I'm currently designing a website in Joomla working with the k2 extension for Joomla. Let's simplify things and say I made a Category "A" of k2 articles. 1) I link a main menu to display the ...

To create thumbnails & cache files, I have to access my already created Ajax Functions inside my helper.php file. I'm already able to call the functions within the frontend (button that is ...

I am trying to use JavaScript to add a class to the body which is the same as the current menu items alias. I have echoed $prefix and it is correct. So I know that part works. I have dumped the ...

Is it possible to prevent the modification of a customized module by another administrator? If so, how can I implement such a restriction?

I am working with a unique template index.php file and want to remove the <jdoc:include type="component" /> because I don't want to display the empty space on the home page.

I'll start to develop a new website with Joomla (a multilingual site, with user-profiles) and want to be able to develop an application later on working well with the site (ideally with kivy, given ...

I'm quite a beginner in Joomla; only designed 1 website so far; but the whole setup / domain name + web hosting configuration and lock of the frontend was made in advance for me; so I'd really like to ...

When users login, I am trying to push them to fill their 3rd party component's Profile form properly. When they filled the form their user id is added to the "#__rbid_users" table (user id is same as ...

I'm trying to add J2Store cart to widgetkit grid stack layout with the following code in my administrator/components/com_widgetkit/plugins/widgets/grid-stack/views/widget.php file. require_once(...

Are there any free plugins/extensions which send the OTP through registered email as well as a mobile number during the registration process?

I'm updating a Joomla 3.x component for Joomla 4, and my admin forms are showing a recursive error: // etc until it hits a limit of 256 236 Joomla\CMS\Form\Form->bindLevel() JROOT/libraries/...

I need to be able to specify different layouts of the same View by way of the Menu item, resulting in a url having &layout=blahblah appended. - NOT using a template override. i.e.: index.php?...

I have virtuemart updated to version 3.4.2. and I created a new manufacturer in the backend. Finally, I assigned a new manufacturer to a product. The problem is that in my frontend, in the "sort by: ...

I have unit tests running for my component (using a bootstrap file to get the usual requirements) but as soon as I add any logging, I get: Class '\Joomla\CMS\Log\Log' not found` I have tried ...

I am very new to Joomla and I am responsible for updating a website that has been created by another web administrator. I have what I believe to be a module that I want to delete, I see it in the ...

I have implemented a pagination technique and the pages seems to work well when I edit in the url, but page 1 cannot be clicked and is still active even though I have changed to the second or third ...

I'm searching a way to define a default intro image in the Joomla article creator from the core (when a user create an article if he don't add an intro image there is one by default generated from a ...

Can anyone explain or point me to information on the new way to handle events in Joomla 4? I'm updating a component that uses triggers to display plugins, and it looks like this: $dispatcher = ...

I've inherited a quite old site running Joomla 1.5. I unfortunately cannot find the URL for the admin login. www.website.net/administrator returns a 404 error. The server is running php 7.2. Any tips ...

I have a plugin that looks like this: class plgExtensionLogInstall extends JPlugin { function onExtensionAfterInstall($installer, $extensionId) { JLog::add("Extension installed: ".$...

I am looking for a way to integrate Eventbrite with Joomla. I want to show a list of upcoming events that I have created. There are a number of default widgets available with Eventbrite (copy / paste ...

I have a package with a component and plugin, and I need to ensure that the component is installed before the plugin during the installation process (as the plugin installer has a dependency on a ...

Edit: see the Update below for the current status of the problem. I have a module that has to display a variable number of rows, based on how the user configures it in the back-end, and several ...

I have a Joomla site with DT Register 3.3.2 and I need to customize the layout of the event registration form for the front end. I need to simply alter the position and formatting of some fields, so ...

First of all, I would like to check myself: An extension is an aggregate of modules, plugins and components, right? If that is right, then modules, plugins and components have the same versions. Is ...

Nearly every example I've seen, both in documentation and code examples, show setting the $reload parameter to \Joomla\CMS\Language\Language->load() method as true (e.g. forcing reload of the ...

I saw the examples of how to do the odd even way, but I want the order to flow from one whole column to the next and not alternating left to right for each alphabetical item. Can this be done? Here ...

On my homepage, I am listing all my blog posts from a category. I don't want to show there any excerpt of articles neither full article instead of a title and featured image. How can I achieve that?

What would be the best way to have front-end edits open on a blank page? When I train a client to use front-end editing, they get confused when they have to scroll around to find the edit screen which ...

Does anybody know of a way to automate the installation of language packs via the CLI, as opposed to using the Extensions -> Language(s) menu in the administrator CMS? I am automating a site build ...

One of our clients would like to have a search icon in their Main menu, which when clicked causes a search bar to appear at the top of the website's body. An example of this behaviour is at https://...

I am working on a Component that will add a set of administrative functionality, which I am fairly confident in, but part of its behaviour will rely on code being triggered by events, which seems to ...

I want to list only the users with a group_id value of 10. Why doesn't the following query work? $db = JFactory::getDbo(); $query = $db->getQuery(true); $query->select('a.id, a.name, a....

I know I can change the paths of tinyMCE to add a subdomain, see here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56577520/change-default-image-path-in-tinymce Only problem now is where can I find this ...

I am looking for any suggestions or recommendations of where I could direct new-to-Joomla end users who want to make changes to their website that I have built for them. Something that gives content ...

I have a site with joomla with a good template and excellent performance. The only problem remains the same: the speed for mobile on google pagespeed. On my site with joomla 3.9.x I have activated all ...

I have the following problem/setup: I develop a custom component in Joomla that has multiple views. The views should have links to each other. If I enable SEF in the global configuration, the links in ...

I have Joomla Version 3.9.8 and Community Builder Version 2.4.2 How do I configure the custom User Management Column Headers in Community Builder? The default column headers are: Checkbox, Name, ...

I've been trying to integrate this API: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/presentation-api/ with my project. However, it always generates this error in the browser console: Uncaught ...

I'm going to develop an extension for J2Store component. I need to display an 'add to wishlist' button on product's page. It's a pity, but the actual documentation of the component is very limited. ...

I try create system plugin for auto change language by IP. I don't have idea how to correctly write code so as not to receive an infinite loop of redirection requests. My code class ...

Accidentally I upgrade Joomla version from 3.6 to 3.9 and it was a big mistake, as it destructed all alignment on home page. Need to know, how to downgrade to 3.6 back?

I'm trying to integrate tinyMCE with my component but I'm getting issues with embedding tinyMCE JS and switching it from default. I've tried removing WYSIWYG.attach and replacing ...

I am using Joomla! 3.7.5 and JA Builder. I'm trying to create a block with custom module. Once I create it, paste code and assign position, then in page editor add block with widget - position and ...

Unable to adjust main page header length of the Joomla karoltheme template(v 3.9.1). Tried changing the template.jss but failed. Great to know the correct way of adjusting the main page header length....

What is the proper way to call for the Content language field type. My below code works but I don't use the content language field type. I am building a drop down from all available languages. $...

I'm currently trying to move a Joomla site to another host. For testing I created a duplicate of the site with a different domain (I don't know if this has anything to do with my problem). The ...

My bottom menu in the footer position has a greater than symbol (>) or chevron that appears before every menu item. The menu appears at the footer of this website: https://www.brettvachon.com/ I ...