Archived entries for Joomla

Fix for mainmenu-xx in Joomla SEF urls

When converting a Joomla 1.0 site to 1.5 and activating SEF URLs, you may discover that the URLs suddenly have the menuname in them. For instance like this: http://example.com/about-us-mainmenu-12. This is because of changes to aliases in the migration process. A menu item titled “About us” might have had the alias “about-us” in Joomla 1.0, but in Joomla 1.5 it is given the alias “about-us-mainmenu-12″ after the migration, where 12 is the menu item’s ID, or Itemid. Here is a fix you can run on your database to correct all of this.

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Norwegian translation for JomSocial 1.5

We just finished the Norwegian language package for the Joomla community component, JomSocial, version 1.5. It comes with an install file for easy installation using the installation manager in backend. If (or should we just say “when”?) you find errors, bad grammar or typos, just post it in the comments below and we’ll update the files. We’ll also be translating the new JomSocial 1.6 as soon as we get around to it.

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Hide view or layout in the Joomla menu manager

If you are building your own component, and you have layouts or entire views you wish to hide from the backend menu manager, you can do so with very little effort and some bits of XML.

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