Interesting about Joomla! CMS

Tags: joomla, optimization, database

Let’s install Joomla! 1.0.12 on a server and set in Back End:

Administration / Site / Global Configuration / Site / Debug site: Yes

Then we save changes and leave from Back End. Now we come on a site. Result—36 queries to a database.

Now we switch on caching in Back End:

Administration / Site / Global Configuration / Cache / Caching: Yes

We come on a site and press “Update” in a browser, to check up, whether the number of queries has decreased. Result—33 queries to a database. Not much better.

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Tags: joomla, mambot, pda, subdomain, cache

In some cases, using the mambot you can have problems with display of links on page (from the main domain there can be a link to a pda, and vice versa). It is connected with not absolutely correct work of joomla’s system of caching which does not know, that a site can be visited from different addresses.

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Tags: joomla, mambot, typography, markdown

Mambot josMarkdown is based on PHP Markdown Extra. This is a special version of PHP Markdown with extra features. See PHP Markdown Extra for details.

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). “Markdown” is two things: a plain text markup syntax, and a software tool that converts the plain text markup to HTML. Full documentation of Markdown’s syntax is available on John’s Markdown page.

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Tags: joomla, mambot, typography, smartypants

One more mambot for you! The mambot josSmartyPants is based on PHP SmartyPants Typographer. Typographer is an extension to SmartyPants adding support for different quotation marks as well as for converting normal spaces to unbreakable spaces and thus preventing inappropriate line breaks. SmartyPants can perform the following transformations:

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Tags: joomla, pda, mambot, subdomain

This project and information is deprecated. Please visit Mobile Joomla! project at mobilejoomla.com for the latest and best way of mobilize Joomla! web sites. Thank you very much for your support.

Today I suggest you other interesting solution for making of the PDA-version of a site. Let’s make so that the pda-version was accessible to the address of pda.yourdomain.com.

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Tags: joomla, module, popular, popular of late

I have released version 1.1 of the “Popular of Late” module (if you have installed previous version, please, update it to 1.1). The module can be downloaded from Old articles in the “Popular” module post.
PS. This version is Mambo-compatible.

Tags: joomla, popular, mos_mostread

Often there is such problem with the “Popular” module (”Most Read Content”, mos_mostread). There some articles are located, and everyone click on them. As a result these articles do not leave from “popular”, and new articles don’t appear here. It is vicious circle.

One of solutions is to show popular news for the last NNN days.

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