Interesting about Joomla! CMS

This week the site alledia.com had a competition of answers to a question “What’s the easiest way to tell Google what’s new on your Joomla! site?“. As a prize the ebook “Joomla SEO book” (the price $37) acted.

Funnily, but I became the winner of this competition. It is funnily, because I have responded, that a way which allows making it quickly, now is not realized in Joomla (even as extension).

My answer was such: (more…)

Ping 1.0.0 is a component for pinging xml-rpc updating services (such as rpc.weblogs.com or rpc.technorati.com). To ping just select “Component - Ping - Ping” at the backend. You can edit list of rpc servers which to ping. (more…)

In this post I’ll describe some ways, which will allow testing the pda version of a site on usual computer.

Opera gives the good tool for testing, choose in menu View > Small Screen (Shift+F11) to see page in a display mode close to mobile devices.

Other way consists in use of Firefox and Web Developer extension. It allows to display page how it will be displayed on a handheld computer. Also for Firefox there is User Agent Switcher plugin. (more…)

This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

Version 2.1.2 of a mambot is released:

• Working with the utf-8 codepage is fixed.
• The option to change gzip compression for a pda is added.

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This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

Changes in the new version:

• Now there is no division into “pda-bot” and “pda-subdomain-bot”. All is set up within the framework of one plugin.
• It is possible to remove optionally pictures (img) and others tags (iframe, object, applet, embed. script) which can seem to you “superfluous” in the version for a pda.
• It is possible to set a name of a subdomain (not necessarily pda.*).

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Today is 2nd birthday of Joomla!

In honour of this event Joomla! 1.5 RC2 [codename: Endeleo] has been released.

Some improvements and areas of changes are listed below:

• Router refactoring solving a range of bugs
• Media Manager refactoring, moving this to MVC standards
• Updated scripts (version); mootools, tinyMCE, Xstandard
• Core template improvements
• Template language installer support
• … and of course a lot more

Note: due to the Router refactoring there will be known issues with SEF url’s.

Important, you need to upgrade! In the current RC1 we found three security issues, one SQL injection, one XSS, and a few full path disclosure vulnerabilities. Those security issues are solved in the new release.

Where we go from here: as you might have read on a recent blog, we will have at least one more Release Candidate (RC3) and hope to move to a Stable release from there on.

Joomla! 1.5RC and Joomla! 1.0.13 have been released!