SobiPro - The Missing Documentation

sobiproSobiPro is a great Joomla extension. It allows you to create completely custom displays for the information you need.

Let's take an example. You buy, sell or make guitars and you need to build a catalog to show them. You're going to have someone type in your product list with all sorts of information that is specific to your guitars. A basic Joomla article simply has a title and a body, with no special fields for the price, the manufacturer or other information that is vital for your customers.

SobiPro is called a Content Construction Kit (CCK) because it allows you to construct the content that you want. It allows you to create a custom display for the information you need. We've also written documentation for K2 which is another Joomla CCK.

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Help, My Joomla Username and Password Don't Match!

Has this happened to you? You try to login and suddenly your username and password don't match.

Well, it happened to me three times this week, and after doing a little research I found that this happens more often than it should.

In this tutorial we'll show you how to fix it, and in the process, you will learn how to enable and disable plugins using phpMyAdmin when you can't get to your Joomla Admin panel.

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Stay Logged Into Your Joomla Site for Longer

There is nothing more frustrating than working on a Joomla entry a little too long and then trying to save and get the login screen ( OK, I guess there are worse things, but this one ranks pretty high).

You can make the frustration go away by going to Site > Global Configuration and increasing the session time. You can also solve the problem with the installation of a simple plugin called Admin Forever. With this plugin, once you log in you'll stay logged in - until you log out, that is.

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Remove your meta tag generator from Joomla header.

Your Joomla site always comes with a default meta generator to show that your website is a Joomla site, and sometimes it will show its version as well. It is important to hide this for security measures if you do not want others to see your source code and know it is a Joomla site and what version it may be. It is good to be aware that the changes you make will be overwritten when upgrading your Joomla version.

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Encrypt any password in Joomla using MD5

We already have a tutorial on changing the password of a Joomla user to "admin". That tutorial allows you to reset any user password to "admin".

However, one of our students wanted to know how to create safer passwords. How could they create safer passwords that were also encrypted in the database. Here's how to do it ...

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Impacto template gets a Joomla 1.7 update!

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We're excited to announce that we've just updated Impactoone of our most popular templates—to Joomla 1.7!

It takes roughly 100 man-hours to upgrade one of our templates to our versatile and dynamic Wright Framework.  It may look the same, but for all intents and purposes, this is a brand new template.  Besides being a great all-purpose Joomla template perfect for any site, Impacto is also a powerful Landing Page for your advertising campaigns.

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Verdant template upgraded to Wright and Joomla 1.7!

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We are well into the month of December and here at the Shack, we are still working hard for you. We will continue working the remainder of the month and hope to release two more templates before the month is over.

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Our New Year Gift for You: A New Free Joomla Template

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We at the Shack are excited about 2012 and to start off the year well we are releasing this pretty and NEW Free Joomla Template built on the Wright Framework.

During the first years of the Joomla! project, it used to be that you could not throw a stick in the Joomlaverse without hitting a Free Joomla Template. Today however, reliable Free Joomla Templates have become scarce and truly hard to find. Most Joomla Template stores either stopped making them, or they've hid them so deep inside their sites that you'll need Indiana Jones to help you find them. But not us... 

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Meet Ilumina, our newest Joomla Template

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This is where we would normally write how excited we are about Ilumina. We are, dont get me wrong. It is one awesome, all-purpose Joomla Template, built on the Wright Framework like all our latests, but you already know that. You also know that because its built with Wright, it will be upgraded to Joomla 2.5 with the flipping of a switch (though we'll still test it extensively).

So today, we've decided not to bore you with our typical Joomla Template launch copy (we'll bore you next time). Instead we thought we could do something fun. If you are interested, please read on... 

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Community template upgraded to Wright and Joomla 1.7!

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Its becoming clear to us that we cannot leave well enough alone.

The JS Community Joomla Template has been a best seller. It's one of those timeless designs that's both an evergreen and a perenial. We werent satisfied with that and have just completed a ground up update to the Wright Framework which makes it lighter, more reliable, and more versatile. Wright also makes it quickly and easily updated to Joomla 2.5 or the newest version of Joomla with the flipping of a switch.

Don't worry, we did not mess the design, we just gave it a cool new logo and added a new demo to help you to see it's potential.

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