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  • Articles missing after exporting from a Joomla 3 database and reimporting them in Joomla 4

    Recently during a lenghtly upgrading process of an old Joomla 3 site to Joomla 4 I have run into an unusual issue. During the process of rebuilding/rebranding the site a large number of articles where added to the original site, and obviously they are missing from the new site. I imported articles directly in the database into the #__content table like I often did in Joomla 3 - a smooth process generally. However even the database looked ok, the new articles in Joomla 4 they were not visible.
  • Choose your extensions carefully

    Choose your extensions wisely - one basic rule when you develop a Joomla site. And same applies to you, weekend webmasters! Your site is a sitting duck, waiting for hackers (especially script kiddies. Well, easy to say it, but what can be seen as "wise" choice here?
  • Column 'checked_out' cannot be null

    After upgrading from Joomla 3.* to Joomla 4.* you can have this error in various places:

    Column 'checked_out' cannot be null
  • How to detect Joomla version withouth having access to admin?

    Sometimes you need to find out the exact Joomla version for a website you don't own for a decent reason - like you are a freelancer and need to provide an estimation for a job on the respective site.

    Sure, you can ask the owner ;) but that's the easy scenario.

    Fortunately there are relatively easy - and legitimate - ways to find it out, unless the owner of the site hasn't blocked the access to this information. In my personal experience (believe me, I have some) this is rarely happening.
  • How to Know it's Safe to Update to a New Joomla Release - ???? MM #224

  • Invalid Token, in store config - when try to upgrade VirtueMart

    Time-to-time I am hitting the wall with this, even with 100+ VM sites in my portfolio, and parts of VM core having my signature. Here are few tricks wich usually solves the problem.
  • JLIB_APPLICATION_ERROR_COMPONENT_NOT_LOADING reloaded

    Suddenly you get the JLIB_APPLICATION_ERROR_COMPONENT_NOT_LOADING all over the place - frontend and backend alike? And you searched the web and get all sorts of confusing tips?

    Look no further - at least until you did not tried this simple trick! (Especially if you just relocated your site recently - or your hosting company did it for you). If you have plenty of space, check the following tip too.
  • Joomla 1.0 and PHP 5.3

    I was totally forgot about this problem - until this morning, when I found in my mailbox a request to save someone's old Joomla 1.0 based site from disaster. I was thinking, that until now all servers where upgraded to PHP 5.3 and all Joomla 1.0 sites upgraded - or at least patched to work with the new PHP.
  • Joomla update warnings via Google Webmaster Tools

    Now you have one more extra reason to use Google's very useful Webmaster Tools. Recently Google added to his arsenal of Joomla related enhancements a useful one: In the Google Webmaster Tools you will see a warning with useful details on what to do each time yor Joomla site gets outdated!
  • Keep your Joomla core up to date!

    You may think that updating your Joomla site to the latest version is not something worth doing every time a new version is released. The site works just fine, and you are not interested in the eventual new additions. You're wrong! There's always a major reason for update to the latest version of Joomla: Security!

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