Giving Joomla its own installation directory



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If you have been using WordPress, then you might have been in love with the pretty feature of WP that allows you to install WordPress in its own installation directory. This comes handy when your site homepage is different from the directory of WP installation as illustrated here. There are many benefits of doing this, the most important being optimized and better management of website files and folders. You might want to implement this feature in Joomla as well. However, sadly Joomla CMS doesn’t come handy with this feature even though we want to keep our site files uncluttered from rest of our hosting directory files. [Read more...]



Upgrading and Migrating Joomla the easy way!



Even though Joomla is a popular Content Management System (CMS) used by millions of websites, upgrading from one one version of Joomla to another is still not systematized by the Joomla or Open Source Matters! (the company behind this popular CMS.)

Upgrading Joomla refers to elevating in Joomla’s minor version – for example from 1.5 to 1.5.x while Migrating Joomla refers to elevating from Joomla v1.5 to v1.6 (so called major version). The next major release will be Joomla version 2.

Upgrading and migrating Joomla is not that easy as is with WordPress (world’s most popular blogging client now used as a powerful CMS). The Joomla Wiki Page (documentation) has a long and complicated process, you can read here Upgrading 1.5 from an existing 1.5x version. However, here is the easiest way to upgrade Joomla 1.5 existing version to Joomla 1.5.x using Update Manager for Joomla and migrating from Joomla 1.5 (latest 1.5.x) version to Joomla 1.6 using jUpgrade – both free components for Joomla! In two series, you can update from your 1.5 Joomla to 1.6 version.

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Branding Tweets – your own Professional Twitter Branding Solution for Free

Every time you tweet, you may be advertising a third-party by twitting from their application. The application or program name along with it’s URL is stamped in all of your tweets (see the screenshot associated) which may not sound professional when you are already involved in Twitter. After reading this article you will be able to personalize your tweets and tweet directly from your own blog or domain address.Twitter Apps Logo

This is a time to brand your tweets with your own website name and link. Get your twitter profile a new professional look all for free using a simple plugin for your self-hosted WordPress blog. Get traffic from Twitter simply because of your professional design, and personalized tweet information. [Read more...]

WordPress 3.0 Thelonious Finally Launched

wordpress-update-3-theloniousThe world’s one of the most popular and flexible blogging (CMS) platform WordPress has just gone updated. The new version of WP 3.0 Thelonious - 13th major is just been released. With many new features including the customizable default WordPress theme Twenty Ten, it’s time to update your WordPress blog.

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WordPress Database Upgrade & Autmated WordPress update failed

No doubt WordPress is the best blogging platform for most of the bloggers and blog sites today. However, there seems to be problems associated with WP mainly during updating or upgrading. Here are few problems encountered in WordPress when you try to update it or upgrade to another version.

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