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How to get Categories of custom extension or third party component
After doing some research, it turns out that the third party component I am using doesn't have a file created as ..\components\com_thirdparty\helpers\category.php which is required to implement a ...
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Will changing Article Category in Bulk with MySQL affect the integrity of assets table?
Yes it will.
Instead go to:
Joomla! Administrator
-> Content
-> Articles
Click the tick box to tick all article.
Then click 'Batch' up the top.
Under:
To Move or Copy your selection please ...
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Administrators cannot edit articles after Joomla update
Well then... I would try ACL Manager's famous Fixing Assets command...
ACL Manager | Diagnostics tab, then (Fix Orphan Assets / Add Missing Assets / Fix Assets Issues / Fix Admin Access Conflicts) ...
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How can I create a page that links to all articles with fake long titles?
You can achieve this with the built in functionality of Joomla.
Create a Category Blog Menu Item and deactivate title under the options tab.
While creating an article, write first your fake title ...
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Remove 'There are no articles in this category.' Text
Got to;
content > articles > options > category tab > No Articles Message > hide / show
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Administrators cannot edit articles after Joomla update
We have encountered the exact same issue, and it turned out to be indeed, a corruption in the #__categories and in the #__assets table where the entries for certain categories pointed to the wrong ...
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Uncategorized category in Joomla 2.5
First of all, Joomla 2.5 is not supported anymore. If you're just getting started with Joomla, I highly recommend you begin with Joomla 3.
when I deleted [..the uncategorized category..], I couldn'...
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Creating new articles, suddenly a /2-uncategorised/ page is created with all these articles in a list
Check to see if you have your SEF URLs turned on and configuration correct. By default you should be able to access the URLs you listed, that is the default Joomla routing kicking in. 2-uncategorised ...
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How to query the categories table and get a resultset with my stored order?
In #__categories table ordering field is named as lft. So, this column saves the ordering of the categories.
If you want to look more into code side then you can see:
administrator/components/...
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How Can I Get Rid Of Category Pages in Joomla
This post highlights a common problem with Joomla and other CMSes. Without the correct setup many different URLs can be indexed for the same page.
Joomla applies an ID for each category and each item....
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Is it possible to insert a category list view inside an article?
One option would be to use the Articles - Category module that's shipped with Joomla.
Create module
Set all the options you require
Assign it to a custom position, e.g category-test
In your article, ...
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How to set/change default article category in Joomla 3.10?
Yes, the default category is the first category in the list.
To change the default category, go to Content > Categories. Click on the first column so that the order of the categories is on ordering....
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Best way to show a list of categories that shows also all subcategories?
In Joomla 3.x, you could use the Joomla's native Categories module.
Your example shows 3 categories, so I would load three modules from within the article, and configure these modules to display the ...
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Where to edit category blog layout for alternative menu item
The best way for make your own version is making an override.
First, here some docs for make the override step by step: https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:How_to_use_the_Template_Manager
Now you need ...
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How to change the order of the items on the blog-layout page for "page-header"?
You need an override for the layout. Follow the step by step here:
https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:How_to_use_the_Template_Manager
Now you need create the override in the column:
Components > ...
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Joomla!3.6.x - BDD - ACL inconsistent
The permissions to create and edit in category "Informatique et SIG" for user group "fiche_pratique_DSI_agents" are set to "inherit". They should inherit from the parent category "Mon service" and ...
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Get parent category tags in template override
I did not remember how to get the parent category of article item, but to get the tags for current category you can try to use this code:
$categoryTags = new JHelperTags;
$categoryTags->...
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Link to article changes depending on module
If you link to an article using the WYSIWYG editor's button then it creates a link with a structure such as the following:
<a href="index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&...
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Administrators cannot edit articles after Joomla update
I solved the problem by using ACL Manager fix assets feature plus few manual steps. The problem was that there were duplicate categories with same name and same alias were created at the time of ...
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Is There a Way to Display the Rating in the Category List?
You should be able to display ratings on the category view; in 3.6.5 and earlier this is done in the voting plugin's onContentBeforeDisplay event which forces the display to be at the beginning of an ...
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Joomla Category Rename Problem
Try clearing the cache. Go to administrator > system > clear cache , also be sure to clear your browsers cache.
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Joomla Category Rename Problem
Have you updated the alias as well as the name of the category? It's the alias that should be generating the URL.
The alias will automatically generate a value based on your name if left blank, ...
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Joomla Category Rename Problem
You could try to use the Rebuild button in category toolbar. Some time ago I had a similar issue, and that solved it. Hope it helps.
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How to prevent category pages from being visited
You can try using joomla redirects or HTACCESS redirects for that.
Whenever x category is requested you redirect to the user to page x
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Get ID for new Article or Category
There is a relevant discussion here, but in short it just concludes that using the jdatabase insertid method is just as rubbish as mysqli_insert_id.
Joomla DB Insert, how to get last inserted id?
...
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Has there been a better solution for showing modules only on article list page(but not article page)?
You can do this using Regular Lab's Advanced Module Manager.
Install it and activate it, and select the following for the the module settings:
For Assigments use Joomla! Content, include ...
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if article is part of category or any of it's children
I faced a similar problem a while ago and not coming up with a good answer I came up with a straight forward messy answer. Behold:
public static function isArticleIdInThisCategoryId($article_id,$...
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if article is part of category or any of it's children
Database method when you want to check against one category and all its children. Where $categoryId is your specified category.
// Get child category IDs
$db = JFactory::getDbo();
$query = $db->...
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How to make Category Links noindex
You can walk through all categories, and in the Publishing tab, set the Robots option to No Index.
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How to add category name to url path for an article in Joomla 4?
With Joomla core you need to setup a menu structure that will correspond to what you want to achieve with your URLs. Menus are important in Joomla.
From the example of the URLs in your question - it ...
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