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How to Create Joomla User Groups and Access Levels
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 08 December 2015 08 December 2015
User groups and Access levels makes it possible to organize and define permissions for users in Joomla.
The default user groups in new sites are Registered, Manager, Super User, etc. These groups enough for regular projects, however sometimes it's required to create custom groups.
In this tutorial, I'm going show you how to create a user group and to assign it to an access level.
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How to Manually Disable Admin Tools in Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 01 December 2015 01 December 2015
One of our users was accidentally locked out of his Joomla administrator by Admin Tools. He had triggered a strict security feature in Admin Tools that denied him access, even though he was a super user.
The error he received was this:
You are a spammer, hacker or an otherwise bad person.
I'm going show you two methods to disable Admin Tools. This will allow you to login again in the admin area of Joomla, fix the issue, then reenable Admin Tools.
4 Tips for New Joomla Template Developers
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 30 November 2015 30 November 2015
Template design is my favorite Joomla topic.
With a few lines of PHP I can load custom CSS files, redesign a module's output, add responsive support and do much more.
In this post, I'm going share with you a few tips to develop or customize a Joomla 3 template.Joomla 3 template.
Simple Renew: Important Security Fix v1.1.18
- Published: 19 November 2015 19 November 2015
We had an independent security person test our site last week and he found a security issue in Simple Renew.
Our developer fixed the issue and we've released a new version of Simple Renew. Please download the latest version of Simple Renew and upgrade to it at your earliest opportunity. Alternatively, you can upgrade from Joomla's update manager.
Please read the below info:
More Widgetkit Coolness with Twitter, Articles and Slideshows
- Written by Simon Kloostra Simon Kloostra
- Published: 19 November 2015 19 November 2015
Welcome to the third post in our series about Widgetkit, the Joomla toolkit from YOOtheme.
In the previous post, we created some widgets to show photo galleries and maps. In this post, I'm going to show you how to create more widgets, including Twitter integration, a Grid Stack display of articles and a slideshow.
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How to Enable Voting on Joomla Articles
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 17 November 2015 17 November 2015
Did you know that Joomla has a core feature that allow users to rate your content?
The Vote plugin, which allow your users to qualify from 1 to 5 stars the articles.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to enable the voting feature for your articles.
The 7 New Features in Joomla 3.5
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 November 2015 16 November 2015
The final version of Joomla 3.5 is here!
We downloaded Joomla 3.5 and tested all the new features. Here are the seven noticeable changes that you'll find in Joomla 3.5:
You need to migrate to Joomla 3 now
- Written by Oscar Rodas Oscar Rodas
- Published: 10 November 2015 10 November 2015
Joomla! just released their last beta release 3.5.1. We will need to wait a little longer for the stable version.
For those of you keeping your sites up to date, this new release will be a common procedure. However, if you have not been updating your Joomla site, findings reveal the need to upgrade/migrate to the latest stable version. Doing this will eliminate risks from vulnerabilities possibly found in old versions.
Please, don't become part of the statistics.
Why migrate your site?
We cannot explain this better than the good folks from Joomla.org. Read their reasons HERE. In short: you NEED to upgrade your site!
Widgetkit: Google Maps and Image Galleries
- Written by Simon Kloostra Simon Kloostra
- Published: 09 November 2015 09 November 2015
In the first post in this series, I introduced you to Widgetkit, YOOtheme's toolkit for Joomla users.
In this second post, let's see examples of Widgetkit in action.
I'm going to show you how to install Widgetkit, then how to create Google Maps and also how to create a photo gallery from an image folder.
Can You Guess Our Secret, New Joomla Extension?
- Published: 06 November 2015 06 November 2015
We're getting a secret, new Joomla extension ready for release in the next few weeks.
This will bring one of the best-loved WordPress features to Joomla. It will make everyone's Joomla life easier.
Here's a draft version of the logo ...
Can you guess what this extenson will be?