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jomDefender Increases Joomla Security

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:41:16 +0100

With Joomla! 2.5.5 released on Monday, and Joomla! 2.5.6 released shortly after, we felt it was important to talk about protecting your website, as 2.5.6 immediately was forced to repair security flaws in the previous version. This brings to mind how we at �corePHP� offer a great security product called jomDefender. jomDefender keeps your Joomla! applications secret and prevents attacks by letting you remove all known Joomla! identifiers from your site via a few, simple backend parameters edits.

What is Joomla?

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:22:13 +0100

What exactly is Joomla? Joomla is a Content Management System (CMS) which is open source and the pride of what �corePHP� builds its users websites on. When we ask our customers if they know what Joomla is, the client is generally confused, asking us what it is exactly. We have come across a wonderful video which details the growth of Joomla over the years. Not only does it show how it has evolved to where it is, but it also details precisely what it is. We feel that this video has helped to show us how amazing the Joomla community has evolved. We have honestly become so engulfed with Joomla, that we have forgotten to take a step back and see how big it has become over the years. We certainly plan on showing this video to our clients, as it shows a great story of what Joomla is. Why don�t you check it out as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLHGnvnw-gI feature=player_embedded Since you have an idea of what Joomla is, connect with �corePHP� today to see how we can aid in your web development projects. Best, Vince Baker 'corePHP' Contributing Writer

OrdaSoft Simple Membership, Joomla 2.5

Thu, 17 May 2012 04:36:36 +0100

OrdaSoft Simple Membership it's Joomla 2.5 based component for creation Subscription and Premium Members accounts on your Joomla site. Now your content will see only users who have paid for the membership or Subscription. OrdaSoft Simple Membership working with VirtueMart e commerce component. Create product in Virtuemart and connect it with Simple membership Joomla component. Admin can create Any number of groups (subscriptions or Premium accounts levels) and attached group to product, user need to buy membership to become a Premium member. Simple Membership component support user email confirmation. User get message about account creation, message about approving or disapproving.

Develop and customize Joomla! templates using Packt's new cookbook

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:46:32 +0100

Packt is pleased to announce Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook, a new book that provides readers with over 60 incredibly effective recipes for taking control of their Joomla! templates. Written by Richard Carter, this book starts from the basics of Joomla! templates customization and goes on to explain the most complex functionalities too, along with a great mix of recipes for beginners, intermediate, and advanced Joomla! template designers. Joomla! is one of the world�s high profile open source, award-winning content management system written in PHP that uses the MySQL database system store information. It enables developers to build professional websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! one of the most popular CMSes available. Joomla! 1.5 Templates Cookbook consists of a series of self-contained recipes that cover everything from common tasks such as changing a site's logo and altering color schemes, to custom error pages and template overrides. This book will help users make their site more attractive, user-friendly and mobile- friendly, in addition to integrating it with various social media such as Twitter and YouTube, to suit their needs perfectly. Using this book, developers will learn to add a multilingual aspect to their website as well as Joomla! concepts such as module chrome and template positions. Additionally, this guide will also enable users to create custom error templates and attractive print styles, create social bookmarks, embed videos, add a shoutbox to their Joomla! website, style Joomla!'s search results and customize the look and feel of their website. With step-by-step instructions for customizing Joomla! Templates, this book is ideal for Joomla! developers, who want to enhance the look and feel of their Joomla! sites. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit: www.packtpub.com/joomla-1-5-templates-cookbook/book

Joomla 1.6 access control (ACL), the power of permissions

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:50:22 +0100

There are some amazing new and improved features in Joomla 1.6 and the new permission system (ACL) might just be the most popular of them all. Access control permission what? Lets just say, again, this is probably the most wanted and discussed feature among Joomla fans (you can even buy a Let there be ACL! tshirt on joomla.org)! Sure, in Joomla 1.5 you can control the user group access on a basic level (think: Registered/Admin/Author etc), but Joomla 1.6 ACL takes this to a whole new level.

Joomla Admin iPad Template Released

Sun, 23 May 2010 12:02:50 +0100

AdminPraise.com has released an awesomely beautiful admin template for the iPad (and iPhone). AdminPad is made specifically for the Apple iPad. AdminPad comes with 5 awesome themes that look and feel like beautiful iPad apps! We've also developed a Simple Content Editor (SCE) plugin that works on the iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices. AdminPad paired with SCE and our other Joomla Admin Extensions give you all the power and flexibility you need to run your Joomla site on the go.

Maintenance Suite for Joomla

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:23:46 +0100

Realtyna has recently released a new Joomla Component called Realtyna Maintenance Suite for Joomla. This new product is including their best-seller product Magic Updater Multi-Site Manager plus some other Tools and Components which make this product a suitable and convenient option for webmasters and administrators who are managing more than one Joomla Installation. Realtyna Maintenance Suite is including the following Components and Tools: 1- Magic Updater Multi-site Manager 2- Realtyna Text-Link Manager 3-Remote Database / File Backup Download Tools 4-Displaying Critical Information about Remote Sites like Database Size, Temp Folder Size, Log Folder Sizes of Remote websites 5-Clearing Cache Temp Folders Remotely 6-Displays the Response Time to Remote Joomla Sites 7-Displaying Process time for Update, Backup and Clearing Actions Realtyna Maintenance Suite for Joomla consists of a Component and a Plug-in. The component should be installed on the Joomla Site that you want to use as your Central Management Place (It can even be installed on a Local Joomla Installation). The Plug-in should be installed on the websites that you want to manage. This is how the Management Panel looks like after proper installation and configuration of the component and plug-ins: As you can see from this panel you can have a complete management overview on multiple websites which ensures the Sanity of them at all times. Information like the files/database/cache folder sizes or the server Response-times or even the Joomla Version of your websites is critical information that you need to have access to immediately. With RMS it is not necessary for you to go and check each of your websites one-by-one to gather this information. You will have access to all the information from a single control panel. On the other hand, there are some useful Tools that can be used to fix some of these problems remotely and with a single click which is very convenient and time-saving. You can use RMS for carrying out the following Administrative Tasks: 1- Deleting an oversized Temp folder or Cache files. 2- Automatic Update of the Joomla Core of Remote websites 3- Backup Files Database 4- Viewing and Managing all the Text-Links in your multiple websites from a single panel. For more information about this component you can visit http://software.realtyna.com/products/realtynamaintenance- suite.html

RPL Software for Real Estate Joomla-based websites

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:24:38 +0100

If you don't have your own real estate website or you want to make your existing website more professional NOW it�s the time to boost your online presence. . I am going to introduce you Realtyna which is a professional provider of online Software Services to Real Estate companies. Realtyna has produced software named RPL (Realtyna Property Listing) which is Joomla based software including everything required for advanced property listing on any joomla based real estate website. In comparison with other property listing solutions available in the market, RPL: 1-Is customizable according to client preferences 2-Very fast Support Response 3- Is Best Value for Money 4-Search Engine Friendly for feeding properties in Google search 5- It supports different languages; English, French, German and Spanish. 6- Includes more than 45 features; some of them are Unique Features: Google map API, Hot properties listing, Property Rank, unlimited photo, easy to use wizard to add your property and attractive property show to make your listing look great Also you can start a money-making site by offering Gold/silver/bronze/free membership to the visitors of your website and define their level of access. For more information please visit the website.

What is the best component to list all properties on a real estate websites?

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:02:43 +0100

Till today Joomla was not considered as professional real estate portal CMS. However after long time a real estate company named Realtyna Inc. created one of the most sophisticated and stable Joomla Property Listing software available in the market. Realtyna Property Listing (RPL) is a Listing Multi-Listing software that has been produced for Joomla webistes. A comparison between other available Listing solutions and RPL reveals that although RPL is positioned among the products with most advanced features, it is also among the medium low cost of ownership which make it an ideal product/solution for professional Real Estate companies. To see the unique features click feature tab and to see how it works click on Video tap of this component.

JomSocial 1.2 with Video now available!

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:18:01 +0100

JomSocial 1.2 has been released! We're happy to announce the release of JomSocial 1.2x�an exciting new update to Joomla's #1 social networking component, Jomsocial! In addition to JomSocial favorites such as user points; groups; walls, private messaging, apps support and dynamic photo galleries, JomSocial 1.2x now offers: 1. VIDEO: JomSocial 1.2x now comes with built-in VIDEO posting capabilities--fully integrated into the core so you and your users can upload videos directly to your community or embed videos from 3rd party video sharing sites--such as Youtube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, MySpace videos and more! Video-posting capabilities are built right into JomSocial...so there's no need for separate video components to configure. It's all in JomSocial 1.2x! 2. FACEBOOK CONNECT: To make the registration process hassle-free at your community, we've introduced the new Facebook-Connect login-module in JomSocial 1.2 so your members can log-in to your JomSocial-powered community using their Facebook account details. Profile pics, status updates more are �pulled in safely securely from Facebook, making it easy for new and exisiting users to sign up and stay logged into your community. With over 200 millions active users worldwide, chances are someone registering at your JomSocial-powered community will already be a member of Facebook. Now, you can make it EASY for them to register at your community with the Facebook-Connect module in JomSocial 1.2! 3. WALL COMMENTS: Your members can now comment on their friends' wall posts in JomSocial 1.2, just like Facebook� and other popular social networks! In previous versions, users could post to walls, but comments about wall posts were treated as separate posts. Not anymore...In JomSocial 1.2, your wall posts and their respective comments will all be on the same line, which makes it easier for you and your visitors to keep track of discussions as they unfold on your wall. 4. MYBLOG 3.0 Integration: Blogs are a good way to keep new visitors to your site coming back for more! And in JomSocial 1.2, your members can have their very own blogs, post entries directly from their profile pages, and share those blog posts with friends via the New MyBlog3/JomSocial plugin (*MyBlog 3.0, a separate purchase, must first be installed on your server). Additionally, your members' blog posts will now show up in your community's Activity Stream; JomSocial Avatar support is included, and each member can accumulate user points with every blog post they make! Other new JomSocial 1.2 features include: + Advanced searching + Mutual Friends filtering + Frontpage member listing filtering + Template optimization + New optional HTML upload form ( For those who hate Flash ) + Sql query and php script optimization and much, much more! * To get your copy of JomSocial 1.2 today, please visit us at: www.jomsocial.com