When I recommended that my customer upgrade from Joomla 1.5 and Mosets Tree to Joomla 2.5 and SobiPro, I had no idea how difficult the directory migration would be. I thought I could export using the Mosets Importer (which I thought was an import/export) and import using the SobiPro CSV importer. Well, that didn’t work out at...
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K2 is definitely one of my favorite Joomla! components. It does everything so well that I rarely need to make edits to anything other than template files. The one exception is creating square thumbnails. Most of my customers incapable of creating square thumbnails, so we need the system to be as user friendly as possible. This is a...
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Most of the sites we design have plenty of fancy elements, but we always end up with a simple or unstyled page navigation list. The PSD always looks unique, but the web version falls short of the designers’ expectations. This is because there are no CSS selectors on the arrows, start, prev, next, end or numbers. I probably looked...
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I recently ran into an issue where I needed to upload a large number of attachments to a post. Simple enough right? With K2, of course! The only problem was, the attachments needed to be sorted by name. I tried altering the order of the attachments by adding number prefixes (01_file.jpg)Â to the filename, but this did not work. For...
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Joomla has a built-in page class suffix option that adds a suffix to the CSS class of your content container and page title, but in my experience, this is just not enough. More often than not, I need to change something outside of the main content container, like the background image or sidebar width. The only way to control these...
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