The most concise instructions, from me personally:
0) If you have WordPress version 2.7 or higher – use automatic update. If not, read on (smiley face)
1) Backup site
(phpmyadmin database and files, download backup on the local).
How to update old WordPress (1.x, 2.x, etc.) – the universal and simple way
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Joomla 2.5 lost admin panel (solution)
Sometimes you move a site to new hosting under a test alias to update or make changes. For example, the site skobki.com transferred to the domain skobki.com.superhostingblabla.com
As a result, disappears admin – you can not go to sitname.com/administrator
Solves simply – you need to prescribe live_site:
File configuration.php, in public $live_site = ”; prescribe the URL of the new site.
If this does not help – the second hint:
Try opening the admin directly through the index.php file:
Instead of http://sitename.ru/administrator
go to http://sitename.ru/administrator/index.php
Good luck!
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Joomla 2.5 menu sorting does not work (solution)
After upgrading from joomla 1.0.15 to joomla 2.5 the menu sorting stops working. Faced with this on the third migrated site. Cures are very simple. You need to query the database to reset the output order of the menu. To do this, you need:
1 – enter PhpMyAdmin
2 – select the database from the left column
3 – click on the ‘SQL’ tab (the very top menu)
4 – write a query in the query input window (a big white text field). what kind of query see below *
5 – press the ‘start’ button (depending on which version, it can be ‘OK’ or ‘go!’)
*In the 4th paragraph, enter the following query string (including quotation marks), substituting your own values:
UPDATE `database name`.`table name` SET `ordering` = ‘0’
After substituting the values, the page will look like this, for example:
UPDATE `skobki`.`j25_menu` SET `ordering` = ‘0’
Once you run this query on your database, the menu sorting problem is likely to disappear.
If the sql query didn’t help, try clearing the cart, removing any deleted menu items from there. To go to the cart in joomla 2.5, at the top in the output options of what is shown in the admin select: state selection -> cart.
I hope this article has helped you. Please leave comments! 🙂
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Installing and configuring MediaWiki
Installation:
Here everything is simple – the installation is not particularly different from the installation of any CMS – joomla or wordpress.
1) Download MediaWiki distribution kit
2) Create a database and database user
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Protecting MediaWiki from vandals and spammers #1 – basic protection
As soon as you open your wiki and it starts to be indexed by search engines, you will have a lot of problems.
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phpBB – add a link in the menu?
Probably every administrator of a phpBB forum sooner or later adds additional links at the top. So it’s time for me to ask – how do I add a link at the top of the forum (in the header) of the phpBB forum next to FAQ, Users, Exit?
Seemed like a pretty simple task, but there’s no way around it. phpBB uses variables, and this elementary for most engines refinement requires some knowledge.
I’ve read the support forums and found that 90% of administrators (judging by the support forums) prescribe the link in a rather barbaric way –
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Joomla 2.5 – setting session time out limit in frontend
Accidentally came across the following potential vulnerability in joomla – the end of session in the frontend in Joomla does not match the backend – the session did not end for more than two days. Pretty dangerous if you give out a lot of different permissions to editors and authors.
Fix:
Open file modules/mod_login/tmpl/default.php and then comment out the line at the top:
JHtml::_('behavior.keepalive');
After that the backend and frontend session times will coincide.
Good luck!
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Joomla 2.5 – configuring user rights
When you need to differentiate user rights in the frontend, you may encounter a problem when the rights in the “user manager” for some reason show “allowed”, although it is “inherited” from users who have “prohibited”.
A trick of the ears – the main settings of user rights in Joomla are in the “Control Panel” – “General settings” – “Rights”.
Took me an hour to figure this out)). Hopefully someone will save time.
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rss cache Joomla 2.5
Faced with an amazing bug in Joomla 2.5:
When importing news from third-party sites via rss, they first hang for a while, and then completely disappear. After an hour of wandering it became clear that the problem with the cache.
The treatment:
1) go to /libraries/joomla
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Smileys in WordPress: a guide to remembering codes
Memo for remembering WordPress emoticons
Faced with the need to put graphical emoticons in WordPress instead of the beloved brackets (brackets.com does not approve!).
Graphic emoticons are very fruitful for the site’s position in search engines, while symbols confuse unfortunate googlesiders and other search fiends.
Of course, the excessive use of graphics, your site is in danger of becoming a Christmas tree, so do not persist. Another way – use a verbal expression of emotion hehe, but I prefer emoticons 😀
In general, not to suffer, prepared a table of characters, which can be printed out and used as a memo.
UPD: for newbies – to save the picture: PKM (right-click) on the picture and “save picture as… 😉
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WordPress archive – customizing the archive output
Users of wordpress often organize menus on the site through Categories. In this case the categories are displayed as an archive – without formatting, without pictures, videos, etc.
Task: show images, videos and formatting when categories are displayed.
Solution:
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Remove Category Archives or Category Archive in the WordPress archive
Also often encountered a problem faced by novice users of WordPress – How to remove the Category Archives at the top of the page? In the Russian version, this inscription sounds like “Archive for category”; and in some versions / templates, this line in WordPress can be as follows: Archive for category.
In general, no matter what the string, the treatment is simple:
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Forum phpBB chmod HOW TO SET THE RIGHTS TO FILES AND FILES
Most sites are hacked because of incorrectly configured access chmod (second place outdated cms modules, sql-injections, etc.). So how do I set up chmod properly in phpBB forums?
All folders 755
All files 644
Four exceptions where we set 777:
files – so that users can upload files to the forum
cache – so your hosting will not complain about the load
store – to install extensions
images/avatars/upload – to upload avatars
If you want, you can limit your users and close all directories to 755 (to be less boring – make a preset gallery of avatars).
Attention! Before installing the engine: config.php must be 666 (then change it to 644).
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phpBB youtube insert video in bbcode
To make a button to insert video in phpBB, you need to add a new bbcode, because the function of converting a safe bbcode in html. Directly allow the user to use html – very undesirable in terms of forum security, so everything is done only using bbcode.
It is very easy to make youtube insert button in phpbb:
Go to the forum administration section, there in “Posts”, at the top will be “BBCodes”. Add a new code and fill in the following information in the form:
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No “Joomla Update!” button in “Components”
To fix it, we write the following query to the database:
INSERT INTO `#__menu` (`menutype`, `title`, `alias`, `note`, `path`, `link`, `type`, `published`, `parent_id`, `level`, `component_id`, `ordering`, `checked_out`, `checked_out_time`, `browserNav`, `access`, `img`, `template_style_id`, `params`, `lft`, `rgt`, `home`, `language`, `client_id`)
VALUES ('menu', 'com_joomlaupdate', 'Joomla! Update', '', 'Joomla! Update', 'index.php?option=com_joomlaupdate', 'component', 0, 1, 1, (SELECT extension_id FROM #__extensions WHERE `name` = 'com_joomlaupdate'), 0, 0, '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 0, 0, 'class:joomlaupdate', 0, '', 41, 42, 0, '*', 1);
Maybe you have different database prefixes, then replace J25 with your prefix.
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How to post code correctly on a blog
I came across an unpleasant snag. It turns out that when you put php, SQL and other code in the body of a WordPress post, it is reformatted in a certain way and when it is copied into the real enviroment, the code may not be executed.
To prevent this from happening, you need to use the pre tag:
<pre>There could be code here without reformatting and spacing</pre>
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Updating Joomla. Newbie mistakes.
How much I once suffered with upgrading Joomla… I had to update several sites from Joomla 1.0.x to 1.5, then to 2.5. Often it was all done semi-automatically – when the sites were too big. It was the quiet horror – was going encoding, came out a wild array of errors in the database. Now, thank gods, everything is easier – there are specialized components, and Joomla itself to update itself learned. Just recently updated Joomla from 2.5 to 3.x. In default mode, not everything worked, in the end used a natural free component redCOMPONENT. In general, without a hitch without a hitch.
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