Joomla Components

Joomla 2.5 – How to Increase the Search Character Limit

by Elaine on March 23, 2012

Joomla 2.5 Tutorial – I don’t know why Joomla decided to make these values so hard to change. In Joomla 2.5, there is a minimum and maximum search word limit. The minimum search character length is 3 and maximum is 20. This tutorial is for Mario who left me a comment under an older post [...]

Joomla 1.7 Tutorial – How to Show Modules on Frontpage instead of Featured Articles

by Elaine on January 23, 2012

Joomla 1.7 Tutorial – How to Show Only Modules On the frontpage of Joomla 1.7. The default installation of Joomla 1.7 displays featured articles in the “mainbody” section of the frontpage. These articles are managed by the ‘featured articles’ Manager in the Article/Content Manager. But what if you only want to show modules in [...]

Joomla 1.7 Extensions – JINC is a Free and Versatile Newsletter Component

by Elaine October 7, 2011

This post is in response to Eddy’s comment about his Joomla 1.7 Newsletter component. I’m not too sure which Newsletter component you have installed, but I was looking around for solutions to use when creating subscription or newsletters. I came across this free Newsletter component which is compatible with Joomla 1.5, Joomla 1.6 and Joomla [...]

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How to add a ‘Contact Us’ link to your Joomla 1.6 Website

by Elaine July 29, 2011

Joomla 1.6 Components – In the standard Joomla 1.6 and Joomla 1.7 installation there is no functionality to create a ‘Contact Us’ link. You will need to install a Joomla extension to be able to receive feedback from your users. I found a free Joomla component contact form that has tons of features and very easy [...]

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Joomla 1.6 – Duplicate Featured Articles Showing on Frontpage

by Elaine March 10, 2011

My head was spinning after encountering this problem. I was publishing multiple featured articles but for some reason they were duplicating on the frontpage. The same article was showing up not only twice but articles tripled and was causing real problems on my Joomla 1.6 website. I checked all the frontpage settings but nothing was [...]

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Joomla 1.6 – Where is the PDF Icon Link?

by Elaine February 14, 2011

If you were using Joomla 1.5, you will recall that under the article options you were able to show PDF, Email and Print icons for each article. Now if you look at your article options in Joomla 1.6 the Email and Print icons are there excpet for the PDF icon. It’s gone. Where did it [...]

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Joomla 1.6 – AcePolls Component Error – Warning: Invalid argument supplied

by Elaine February 10, 2011

My client wanted a voting section on his Joomla 1.6 website and I was playing around with the different voting Components compatible with Joomla 1.6. I found a component called AcePolls which I installed successfully. I’m not too sure if I’ll keep it because it’s a little buggy. I just wanted to share with you [...]

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Joomla – Increase the Search Character Limit

by Elaine February 9, 2011

I don’t know why there is a search character limit in the search box in Joomla, but there is one. I find it extremely annoying. You can test it out on your own Joomla website and see the you are restricted to only enter in 20 characters in the search box. To resolve this you [...]

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How to Uninstall Components in Joomla 1.6

by Elaine February 8, 2011

In Joomla 1.6 things look a little different than Joomla 1.5 or previous versions. If you have tons of Components installed and it’s clogging up your website, you can uninstall or delete ones that you don’t need. This will free up some space so you can manage your Joomla 1.6 website much easier. Here are [...]

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Joomla 1.6 – Creating a Menu Item For Component

by Elaine February 4, 2011

You just finished installing your Joomla 1.6 component and now you need to add it on your menu navigation. Assigning the component to a menu item is easily done through the Joomla 1.6 administrator backend control panel. Say for example you wanted to add the component under your the menu “About Joomla”. Here is how [...]

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