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Site clean up tips
Good question!
Ideally, you should probably be doing Joomla and third party extension updates and some of the other checks more than once a year.
Joomla
On a regular basis, run a backup and update ...
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Adding Multiple Users in Joomla
I see in the tags of your question you are using mysql and phpmyadmin, so I assume you are after a a way to INSERT records of users directly into the Joomla database.
However please note that, the ...
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Remove 'Publishing', 'Language' and 'Metadata' options from frontend editor in Joomla 3.4
Copy this file :[root]/components/com_content/views/form/tmpl/edit.php
to [root]/templates/your_active_template/html/com_content/form/edit.php
then open and delete line 75 to 77
<li><a ...
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How can I grant a non-Super User group permission to force check-in of articles?
Assuming you have the latest Joomla version, if you are using the default usergroups available in Joomla, then the administrators usergroup should have access to the "Check-In" component.
The ...
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Joomla Beginner Tutorials - How to start with Joomla?
Here are some helpful resources for beginners and Joomla newbies.
(for developers tutorials go: Joomla 3.x extension development tutorial for a beginner developer)
Joomla Docs
Getting started with ...
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CSS/HTML problem on Joomla config page (3.6.1 and 3.6.5)
You might want to use Admin Tools or RSFirewall to do a malware scan. There are known cases where certain malware can cause this problem: https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=706&t=902880
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Multiple website managment with Joomla?
Shared Hosting
If a hosting provider restriction is causing you to consider a Joomla multi-site solution, then it may be easier to find an alternative host and build the websites individually than ...
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Downgrade (rollback) Joomla Versions
Quick Dirty Method:
Take a backup of your Joomla 3.4.3 site and set it up on your localhost. Once done, download the Joomla 3.4.1 Update Package and extract it in the root directory. Don't worry about ...
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Unpublished Articles - hide
From what I already know, this is a purposely built-in feature, which allows admins (only) to view and manage articles via the frontend.
Example:
The Social Media Executive writes a blog post and ...
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Mass Joomla sites Updates / Maintenance
I could suggest the following:
Watchful.li
A subscription based service, to monitor, audit, backup, manage, update Joomla sites remotely from a single location. You install the Watchful.li client ...
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Can I safely disable the core components I don't use
I always disable any of the core components that I won't use and this is a safe approach. I wouldn't recommend to uninstall at this phase until Joomla removes them from the core as it happened with ...
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Remove 'Publishing', 'Language' and 'Metadata' options from frontend editor in Joomla 3.4
Assuming your form instance is in variable $this->form like it's on core components.
In your edit.php add these lines.
$this->form->removeField('state');
$this->form->removeField('...
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Email notifications when users logging in to the administrator site
On a such question, it's not possible to not mention Admin Tools by Akeeba. It provides an application firewall, where you can adjust such and even more settings that will enhance the security of your ...
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Email notifications when users logging in to the administrator site
Yes, it is possible with 3rd party extensions.
Assuming you're looking for a free one, maybe try something like User Login Tracking. It send you an email, and stores the following data:
IP address
...
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How Ι can unpublish one menu item (default item) from the menu?
Joomla requires a home menu item to be set. The error message you get states exactly this. You can't unpublish the default home menu item.
The thing here is what you want to do and why. Why you would ...
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How to setup a new multi-language website?
Take a look at our http://www.neno-translate.com it will fix issues like these when you install it and makes it easy to translate and manage your multilingual content.
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How to move my site from subfolder to root?
Best would be to change the assigned root folder of your site on your web hosting seetings.
I do this so I can build new versions of my site and save/keep the old versions alive; all I have to do is ...
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CSS/HTML problem on Joomla config page (3.6.1 and 3.6.5)
I bet there is a fatal error somewhere, which prevents the complete execution and results to see an incomplete rendered page and the essential css/js files missing.
Enable error reporting and likely ...
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Custom bootstrap error message
Let's say I've custom validator "validemail" added in my form XML:
<field
type="text"
label="COM_HELPDESK_CC_LABEL"
description="COM_HELPDESK_EMAIL_DESCRIPTION"
...
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3.x backend title & dropdown
I think you are taking about component menu in the administrator section.
For this you need to create a system language file which will contain all the component menu translation.
In the component ...
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How Ι can unpublish one menu item (default item) from the menu?
You can't unpublish the home menu item but you can hide it.
Create a new menu an assign it to an unplublished menu module and then transfer the home menu item to the new menu.
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Modifying Joomla's feedback message
It's a simple language string which can be overriden in the language manager.
For that go to the Language Manager and there the "Overrides" submenu.
Click the "New" button.
You can use the search to ...
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User ID Warning
Any extension that interacts with users in any way, shop or form, requires the #__users table. It sounds like you have migrated the EasyBlog data, but forgot to migrate the data from the #__users ...
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Site clean up tips
In general, it's always good to uninstall any extensions you're not using. By not doing so, you're cluttering the Module/Plugin Manager, your database and using more space on your server.
So any ...
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500 error in administrator
Some things to try (assuming you can get to some or all of these pages):
update to the latest version of Joomla (if you haven't already)
update third party extensions to the latest versions
switch to ...
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Joomla Beginner Tutorials - How to start with Joomla?
To complement, there are two areas in which at some point will have to review due to the importance with the creation and administration of sites:
Joomla Security Checklist
Search Engine Optimisation
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joomla 3.6 admin language won't change
Perhaps you've set the default admin language for your own user. Alter this setting for your user by going to your site's administration and go to users > manage > choose your user > basic settings ...
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Is there an updates log in Joomla?
There is no such activity log feature in the Joomla core but you could install a third party extension such as the LOGman paid extension or similar.
According to the documentation, logged activities ...
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CSS/HTML problem on Joomla config page (3.6.1 and 3.6.5)
Got the same error in Joomla!
System top bar disappeared while in Admin->Global Configuration (com_config).
PHP error can only be seen in title (quite useless): "Error: 0 Function name must be ...
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Can I safely disable the core components I don't use
Locked ones are required for Joomla to work, so you shouldn't unpublish or uninstall them.
The others may be required for some third party extensions to work (as they are part of core Joomla, the ...
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