The Joomlashack Blog
How to Fix Joomla folders and files permissions with Admin Tools
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 08 May 2019 08 May 2019
A common issue with server migrations, components installations, and site security in Joomla is wrong folders and files permissions. If you are new to Joomla folders and file permissions, please visit our tutorial How to Change Joomla Folder and File Permissions.
In this tutorial, however, you will learn how to fix wrong files and folders permissions using free Admin Tools Core. This popular component is a powerful way to quickly correct any folder and file permissions you may encounter.
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How to Fix Broken Joomla User Groups
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 May 2019 01 May 2019
Joomla's user groups can be really powerful.
However, it's also possible to cause problems for yourself by making errors while setting up the user groups.
One Joomlashack member remained a super administrator and able to log-in to their site, but they lost the ability to see the administrator menu links and edit their site.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to rescue yourself if your super administrator account no longer has the permissions it should.
How to Create a Google News Sitemap for Joomla Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
Google News is an excellent source of traffic for many sites.
To help them find your articles, Google wants you to submit a specially-formatted sitemap which has custom news tags and only lists content added in the last 2 days.
I'm going to show you how to create a sitemap for your Joomla site that Google News will accept.
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OSMap: Removing Links From a Joomla Sitemap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
OSMap is the best and easiest way to create a Joomla sitemap.
When you install OSMap, it automatically creates a sitemap for you.
For more advanced users, it's possible to edit your sitemaps to include or exclude certain URLs. You may want to do this for visual purposes (you want a short and clean sitemap) or for SEO purposes (to exclude certain URLs from Google's index).
Converting a WordPress Site to Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 April 2019 10 April 2019
This tutorial will show you how to move an existing WordPress site over to Joomla. This will work for many WordPress versions up to 5 and will work for Joomla 3.
We also have a tutorial showing how to move in the opposite direction, migrating from Joomla to WordPress.
How to Change the Default Language in Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 28 March 2019 28 March 2019
When you create a new install of Joomla, you have to choose a default language.
For example, if you choose English (UK) as the default language, your site will use that language in the backend and frontend.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to change that default. I'll show you how to set up a new language pack in Joomla and set that as the default.
Joomla Legal File Types and Maximum Upload Size
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 February 2019 20 February 2019
By default, Joomla only allows you to upload certain file types. Also, it only allows you to upload files of a certain size.
For example, these are the file types that a normal Joomla site allows:
bmp,csv,doc,gif,ico,jpg,jpeg,odg,odp,ods,odt,pdf,png,ppt,swf,txt,xcf,xls,BMP,CSV,DOC,GIF,ICO,JPG,JPEG,ODG,ODP,ODS,ODT,PDF,PNG,PPT,SWF,TXT,XCF,XLSHow to Add Modules to the Joomla Control Panel
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 February 2019 08 February 2019
It's possible to customize the Joomla admin area for your users.
In particular, it can be useful to customize the control panel that users see when they first login.
Here's how to modify the Joomla admin area to show the information that you or your client require:
How to Add a Home Icon to Joomla Menus
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 07 February 2019 07 February 2019
One of our members asked us this question:
"In some websites, the home menu is just an icon without any text. How can I do this in Joomla?"
The answer is surprisingly simple. Let me show you how to add a Home icon to your Joomla menu.
How to Fix 1054 Unknown Column 'client_id' in 'field list'
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 February 2019 07 February 2019
When you run an update from older versions of Joomla, you may see an error.
If you go to Menus > Main Menu, you may see this error:
1054 Unknown column 'client_id' in 'field list'
This is a problem with Joomla's database update, but it is easily fixed. In this tutorial, you will learn how to quickly fix it.
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