link to another article in Joomla

When writing content on the web, it’s natural to link to other content that you’ve written. If you have two similar articles, linking them to each other helps your readers find potentially more content on your site that they would like to read. This article doesn’t need too much of an introduction, it’s a basic concept, so let’s get right into the training!

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Categories in Joomla

In Joomla 3 you also have Categories. Each time you create an article or other content type you can assign it to a category. Categories can give you more options for structuring your content. For example you can group similar articles in one category and create a page that displays the intros of all the articles.

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Joomla! 3.4.8 Released

Joomla! 3.4.8 is now available. This is a bug fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla This release fixes some bugs related to session management from Joomla 3.4.7. The project understands that many of our users are now on Christmas Holiday’s so we would like to emphasise that this release only contains bug fixes and whilst we strongly encourage our users to update as soon as practically possible, this update can be left until after any holidays.

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Could not instantiate mail function

If your Joomla server does not support the php mail() function and Joomla attempts to send an email (such as a new user registration email), any of the following message may appear:

  1. Could not instantiate mail function.
  2. The mail() function has been disabled and the mail cannot be sent.
  3. Registration failed: An error was encountered while sending the registration email. A message has been sent to the administrator of this site.

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Joomla! 3.4.7 Released

Joomla! 3.4.7 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses a critical security vulnerability and one low level security vulnerabilities. We strongly recommend that you update your sites immediately.

This release only contains the security fixes; no other changes have been made compared to the Joomla 3.4.6 release.

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Joomla! Two Factor Authentication

Two factor authentication is one of Joomla! 3 improvements which can and will improve security. This is because by enabling two factor authentication, it is practically impossible for a hacker to use a brute-force attack to guess the details of your Joomla! username and password. This is particularly important for the administrator part of the website, which ensures that attacks which try to guess your password can never be successful.

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How to turn off magic quotes gpc in Joomla

FOR MAMP

Go to MAMP application -> Preferences (button) -> PHP (tab) -> Choose 5.3.1 or greater -> choose OK.
Go to the MAMP folder -> bin -> php -> php5.3.26 -> conf -> edit php.ini -> add
“magic_quotes_gpc = Off” a few lines above “magic_quotes_sybase = Off”.
Restart MAMP’s servers.

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Setting mail in Joomla

If you have not made any custom changes during the installation, your Joomla will be set up by default to use the PHP Main function to send email messages. The settings can be modified via the Joomla admin area -> Site -> Global Configuration -> Server. The corresponding settings are found under the “Mail Settings” section.

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Setting safe path in VirtueMart

VirtueMart uses a folder for storing invoices and downloadable files you eventually offer for sale. You must configure the path to this folder referred to as ‘Safe Path’. For security reasons, it is recommended that this folder is outside of the public website folders.

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