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Tuesday, 13 October 2009 07:55

Joomla_1.5x_customizationAfter a way too long hiatus, I'm back and will be recording new episodes shortly. Stay tuned. In the meantime, I want to point your attention toward a new book from Packt Publishing called "Joomla 1.5x Customization: Make Your Site Adapt to Your Needs" by Daniel Chapman.

Packt was kind enough to send out a copy to me in advance. I've been looking through it and it looks good. Expect a full review shortly. If you want to get it and support the Joomla Podcast, please buy it through this link.

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Learn more about Joomla 1.6

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Wednesday, 08 July 2009 22:14

Andrew Eddie has released a great look at what 1.6 will bring. Check it out below:
Lifting The Lid On Joomla 1.6
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Video Tutorial: Difference Between Modules, Plugins & Components

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Friday, 24 April 2009 09:29

One of my followers, Jon on Twitter, asked:

"Where can I find a video or something explaining the difference between modules, plugins & components?"

Look no further Jon! Watch below to learn the difference.

 

modules

In a nutshell:

  • Modules are blobs of content that live around the edges of your site. The position of them is determined by the template that you use.
  • Plugins affect your content in different ways. For instance the audio playback that I use on my site is a plugin.
  • Components are big extensions. They replace the main area of content. Look at Jreviews and JEvents as examples of Components. Technically, creating articles using the content component.
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Joomla + Youtube

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Saturday, 27 June 2009 13:30

Joomla fan Geoff sent me some cool links to videos that people have made about Joomla. I thought they were pretty great so I had to share them. Click Read More to view them all.

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Sorry for the duplicates

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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 18:08

So I upgraded Joomla to 1.5.11 the other day (you do know that 1.5.11 came out, right?) and I realized that all of my posts and episodes came up as new in iTunes. Did this happen to anyone else?

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Joomla Tip - Create a map of your extensions

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Thursday, 05 March 2009 21:51

Building a complex Joomla site? Here's a tip: keep track of your components, modules, and plugins with a handy chart, like the one below:

sitemap

This graphic was made by Eduardo. Thanks for the image!

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Joomla 1.6 Alpha Released

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Monday, 22 June 2009 21:03

It's here! Grab the 1.6 alpha of Joomla 1.6. Rob Schley fills us in on the progress from the Google Group:

"The new ACL system is well on its way. You can now create new user groups, assign users to groups, assign groups to access levels, and assign content viewing permissions to access levels. We are still working out the details of the user interface and business logic for the advanced access permissions. The upgrade to MooTools 1.2 is complete and we’ve begun cleaning up core JavaScript code to make it more compact and efficient. The menu system and menu manager have been completely rewritten and now feature a number of major improvements that should make them more powerful, efficient, and easier to customize.

We’ve refactored a number of other components including com_content, com_users, and com_weblinks to make them easier to maintain, customize, and extend. We’ve trimmed a lot of legacy code and media from the core which reduced the package size by about 30% or so. We’ve also made a number of performance improvements to the plugin system and the menu system that should create a visible improvement on larger websites.

So, in light of all of that, we’ve put together an alpha build to give people an opportunity to see what we’ve been working on and have a peek at what’s coming in 1.6. It is important to understand that this is a technology preview, not a final product. There are many issues, rough corners, dripping faucets, and outright broken pipes. We know this and you should too. Many features are still broken or extremely buggy so don’t panic if something doesn’t work as you might expect it to. As I said before, there is still much to be done.

You can download a copy of the alpha at http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&frs_package_id=3585

Lastly, I’d like to thank Hannes, Gergo, Ercan, Louis, Andrew, and Sam for all of their hard work.

Enjoy,
Rob Schley"

Have you tried it yet? How is it?
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Feeds down for a bit—Updated

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Thursday, 05 March 2009 08:01

I've moved my RSS feeds from Feedburner to Google, and it's caused a couple of unforseen problems. I should have them smoothed out in the next 48 hours.

Update: They're back up. Also added RSS to the addressbar which should make it easier to subscribe.

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How I install and prepare Joomla

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Monday, 23 February 2009 23:29

Joomla out of the box needs some configuring before it's ready to go. I've installed Joomla over 100 times in order to teach people how to use it. I've developed a list of things that I do beforehand. Here's a video where I show how easy it is to install Joomla using Cruzio's Installatron, then I go through a few things getting Joomla setup, including:

  • Installing JCE
  • Setting JCE as the default wsywig editor
  • Turning on SEO URLs
  • Configuring Time Zone
  • Removing "My Joomla Site" from the homepage
  • Removing the Author, Created & Modified dates from Articles
  • Configuring JCE to not show colors in the background
  • Getting surprised by new version of JCE that fixes flash uploading
  • Creating a General Contacts category

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Joomla 1.5.10 released

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Sunday, 29 March 2009 09:43

Grab it while it's hot! Joomla released the update to 1.5.10, fixing some security issues. Update today to get fixed. I did it and haven't seen any ill effects.

Ways to update:

  • Manually
  • Intellispire Updater (affiliate link)
  • Joomla Magic Updater

Do you do it a different way? My host comes with Installatron, which manages my upgrades.

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