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How to protect Joomla 2.5 with captcha?

The Joomla 2.5 application comes with a pre-installed ReCaptcha plugin. Using it allows to protect the Joomla registration and contact forms from spam bots. The plugin can be managed from the Joomla 2.5 admin area -> Extensions -> Extension Manager -> … Continued

How to change the Joomla 2.5 admin username?

The Joomla 2.5 administrator’s user name can be easy changed from the Joomla 2.5 admin area -> Users -> User Manager. Select the check box next to the administrator user name and click on the Edit button located at the top-right Joomla menu. … Continued

HTML tag filtering in Joomla

Joomla allows you to specify which HTML tags you can use in your articles. You can configure this setting from your Joomla admin area > Article Manager -> Parameters. There you will see a section named Filter type. It allows you to … Continued

How to enable cache in Joomla 1.5?

Enabling cache will increase the overall performance of your Joomla application. You can enable caching from your Joomla admin area > Site > Global Configuration > System. At the right side of the System page, under Cache Settings, next to Cache you should select Yes. Then click Saveat … Continued

How to change the template in Joomla 1.5

You can change the default template from Joomla’s admin panel > Extensions -> Template manager. Once there, check the radio button next to your new template and from the top right menu choose “Default”. More information on how to manage your … Continued

How to integrate a forum with my Joomla 1.0.x site?

The bridge components for Joomla 1.0.x rarely work properly, and even when they do, an upgrade of one of the two integrated applications will almost certainly break the overall functionality of your website. This is why the best solution for … Continued

How to disable comments in Drupal

Often Drupal (especially the older versions like 6.x) has problems with Spam bots which flood its comment modules. The first thing to do in this case is to disable the comments modules until you clean all the Spam posts. This … Continued

Magento Multistore

The primary use of the Magento multistore functionality is to create multiple stores accessible on different URLs under the same Magento installation. All stores under the Magento multistore installation share the same backend, which makes the administration easier. The first … Continued

Magento Report

In order to export a report in Magento you need to enter the administrator area for the installation.Once there, choose Reports and select the desired report type from the drop-down menu. On the new page that will load select the desired report … Continued

How to configure my phpBB to use the server URL instead of my own domain name?

First go to your cPanel and click on the phpMyAdmin link from the Databases box. From the drop-down menu on the left choose the phpBB database. Once the page refreshes with the database contents, open the SQL tab at the top. In the text … Continued