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Getting back your DISQUS comments after a site migration

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Lot of us love to have DISQUS comments on our sites. It's one of those hosted commenting systems that adds virality to all content and comments on your site. Techjoomla uses DISQUS too, and during our recent site upgrade we had a challenge ensuring that our comments get carried over since the migration meant that the links/URLs to all our pages got...

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Using Joomla logging to easily debug MySQL issues

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Sometimes, you might have operations like crons running PHP scripts behind the scenes. If there are any errors in it, it can become difficult to debug them since they might not affect the entire website. Whether you are doing this with any PHP framework or in a Joomla component, logging can help you debug such issues.Here is how you can use Joomla'...

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JGive v1.5.2 released

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JGive 1.5.2 is available for download to subscribers. This release fixes the bugs reported in version 1.5.1 and adds up some changes. Below is a changelog for the same. Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.0.x PHP 5.3 or higher is needed Changelog for JGive v1.5.2 - Bugs fixed #19249 Wrong ids in campaign promoter filter options #19250 Fatal error...

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Is Joomla a Good Choice to Build Intranets?

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Intranets need a unique combination of features. If you are thinking about building an Intranet for your company, several requirements will come to the fore. To decide on what platform works best for you, you need to analyse these requirements & then evaluate systems based on that & of course the cost of procurement, implementation & ma...

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Rolling out CSS/JavaScript changes with heavy browser caching

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Most of us have been in this scenario. We have spent hours tweaking our Joomla site using numerous tools like Google Page Speed, YSlow and made those adjustments to shelve those important milliseconds from page load times. You've added gzip, Joomla caching and also enabled month long caching via the .htaccess file. The site now works fast. Cool!

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#jpositiv The Story behind the hashtag !

#jpositiv The Story behind the hashtag !

If you are involved with Joomla in anyway and are on Twitter its very likely that you have at some point seen the #jpositivhash tag. If you have not, Its a cool hash tag to share positive news in the Joomla world & help spread the Joomla love on twitter. There's a nice story to how it was born.. Back in 2011 the joomla community was plague...

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JTicketing Roadmap 2013-14. See whats coming up!

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Our extensions are regularly maintained & we keep adding new features to extensions periodically. Features are based on our users feedback on the forums, via Tickets, email & Social Channels. Do Comment on this article & give us your Feedback. Your inputs shall be considered in order to convert this Draft roadmap to a frozen one. Commen...

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Quick2Cart 1.0.1 out!

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Hi All,

A minor bugfix release version 1.0.1 is out for Quick2Cart, following is the changelog.

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JGive 1.5.1 released

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We have released a minor update to JGive - version 1.5.1. Here is a detailed changelog. JGive 1.5.1 Changelog - Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.0.x - Bugs fixed (5)- #15028 If campaigns are not present then don't show campaigns module- #17290 Undefined variable msg controllers/donations.php line 166- #17126 Campaign module showing unpublished...

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Deploying Joomla projects using GIT

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Over the years we've been using various methods to deploy websites to servers. FTP is everyone's first love and hot favourite. But when GIT came along and we started using that our VCS of choice it became increasingly evident that we can use it for deployment too. The biggest challenge here was managing the database.  Because of the way new table c...

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Quick2Cart is here!

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It's a great pleasure to announce (finally ;)) that our super flexible E-commerce solution for Joomla is here! For those who haven't heard about this yet, here's a recap!

In all the years we have been working in Joomla, we have continuously been frustrated with the lack of a shopping cart solution that's plug & play & at the same time is robust & scalable. There are lots of Carts in the market. But for most applications, they are just too huge & come with a lot of overheads.

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Email Beautifier 1.0.8 released

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Hello all, we have released a bug-fix version of Email Beautifier today. Take a look at the changelog.

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JGive (formerly jomGive) - Donations & Fund Raising for Joomla is here! Rewritten from Scratch with awesome new features

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It gives us great pleasure to introduce JGive the Fundraising & Donations extension for Joomla. After we took over the reigns of JomGive from CorePHP, we wanted to take it to a completely new level. The result is right in front of you... JGive!  JGive is a powerful  “crowdfunding” extension that enables your members to create fundraising projec...

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Adding Custom Fields to Joomla Categories in Joomla 2.5 and Joomla 3.0

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We recently had a special case scenario where we had to develop a Quick2Cart plugin to sell Joomla Categories.  We were consistently hitting a wall trying to show our custom fieldset for Quick2Cart in the Joomla Category Add/Edit view. We already have a content plugin for this which shows Quick2Cart in Joomla content items. But it simply wasn't wor...

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Developing with Zoo - Programmatically creating "Edit Item" links for Zoo CCK

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Zoo from the YooTheme guys is a pretty awesome CCK for Joomla with some mind-blowing features. Whats more, they have made it extremely easy to use for the end user. It can be easily scaled to handle all kinds of content management situations that you might encounter.

It's so flexible, in fact.. that we have used it for Variety of applications using Shopping Carts (with Quick2Cart Integration), Online Product Catalogs, Download Managers, Business directories & what not

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