Introduction to Views in Drupal 7 Updated on February 21, 2022 by Scott Mitchell Drupal has many plugins, or modules, that you can install and enable. Drupal has a large set of ‘Core’ modules that, while installed, simply need to be enabled to be used. Others, however, need to be installed and then can be enabled and used. Views is one of these types of modules. Views is extremely Read More >
Changing the Site Meta Keywords in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle In the early days of the internet, search engines heavily relied on meta keywords and other meta settings in order to learn what a particular website was about. As the years have gone by, search engines have become more intelligent and instead use different methods to identify the subject matter of a website. While meta Read More >
Changing the Site Meta Description in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Your site’s meta description is a short description about your website set within your HTML head tag. It’s often used by search engines when they would like to show a brief description about a particular website / page. In this tutorial, we’ll show how to adjust your Joomla 3.0 site meta description. To change your Read More >
How to allow Unicode Aliases in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Unicode Aliases is the next Joomla 3.0 SEO Setting that we are reviewing. This setting controls how non-latin characters are handled in your aliases, whether they are saved or converted to a date and time. To adjust Unicode Alias settings in Joomla 3.0: Log into your Joomla 3.0 Dashboard In the left menu, under SYSTEM Read More >
How to Include your Site Name in your Joomla 3.1 Page Titles Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle The next Joomla 3.0 SEO Setting we will look at is Include Site Name in Page Titles. This setting will allow you to adjust whether or not your Site Name is included in your site’s title. Many users like to include their website’s name in all of their title tags. For example, in the Read More >
How to modify image preview style in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When working with content types in Drupal 7 and you decide to add an image, a preview of that image will show in the editor area after you link it to your page. This preview can be sized differently, depending on your content type. This means you have the ability to set the preview for Read More >
How to add the .html suffix to the end of URLs in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 3.0 allows you to toggle on / off whether you want to add the .html suffix to the end of your URLs. This is just one of several SEO Settings you can adjust in Joomla 3.0. In this tutorial we’ll go into more depth on the Adds Suffix to URL option in Joomla 3.0. Read More >
How to set a default image for content types in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When you have specific content types such as Articles, Basic Pages, Blog Entries, etc. you may want to give some uniformity to specific types. Maybe you want to have all Articles include your logo as a default image. Drupal 7 has a setting that allows a default image that will appear automatically if another specific Read More >
How to Remove index.php from URLs in Joomla 3 Updated on March 11, 2022 by Brad Markle As we continue to review the SEO settings in Joomla 3.0, the next option we get to is Use URL rewriting. In our testing, we noticed that when the Use URL rewriting option was enabled, index.php was removed from our URLs. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to use this Use URL rewriting Read More >
How to add a subfolder to default image directory in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When working with images, Drupal 7 stores those that are uploaded in a specific folder. This folder varies with different content types. With the Article content type, the Image field is enabled by default. The default image folder is set to /sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/. Fields added for other content types such as the Basic Pages and Blog Read More >
Using Search Engine Friendly URLs in Joomla 3.1 Updated on March 11, 2022 by Brad Markle In the Global Configuration settings of Joomla 3.0 is a set of SEO Settings that you can adjust. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and configuring these parameters will allow you to change various settings about your site that some search engines may look at when crawling your site. In this tutorial, we’ll look specifically Read More >
How to reset a database password within cPanel Updated on August 16, 2021 by Brad Markle There may be times that you need to reset a database password. For example, you may be resetting the password as a normal maintenance / security precaution. If you’re troubleshooting database connection errors, resetting your database password is a good step to take so you can be confident you are using the correct password. In Read More >
How to change the URL alias of Joomla 3.1 articles Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Thus far in our Joomla 3.0 testing, we have created a new article and published it to the front page. When we visit this new article in our browser, the url becomes: https://domain.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/1-this-is-my-first-test-article As we set the title of the article to, “This is my first test article“, Joomla used the article’s title as the Read More >
Changing the max number of images allowed in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When working with your images, you may want to allow your posts, articles, and other content types to allow more than one iamge to be added. Like all other settings, this is set within each different content type. When images are enabled, the default number of images is set to one. Changing the allowed number Read More >
How to set the image title in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell One of the many options you will be able to set when working with images in Drupal 7 is the title field. The title field, also known as the tool tip, will display a very small text box when a user mouses over the image. This is often used for either comment on the image Read More >
How to set max image upload file size in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell In your Drupal 7 dashboard, there are many settings that you can customize when working with images, such as setting maximum or minimum image sizes. Another related setting you may want to set is the maximum upload size. This setting allows you to set a maximum file size for images to be uploaded. This way Read More >
How to feature an article on your Joomla 3.1 homepage Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle After you have creating your first article, you can set it as a featured article so you can see it on your Joomla 3.0 homepage. The steps below will show you how to set an article as featured after you have already published, but you can just as easily make this change while you are Read More >
How to write a new Article in Joomla 3.1 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the steps for writing a new article in Joomla 3.0. There are many settings you can configure for your new content, however we’re only going to review the minimum requirements. To create a new article in Joomla 3.0: Log into your Joomla 3.0 dashboard From here, you have Read More >
I forgot my Joomla 3 admin username Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle If you’re having trouble logging into your dashboard because you’ve forgotten your Joomla 3 admin username, you can have Joomla remind you of it by emailing it to you. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to do this. Visit your Joomla 3 admin login page. You can do this by adding /administrator to the Read More >
Should I upgrade Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3.0? Updated on August 16, 2021 by Brad Markle The latest news announcement from the Joomla team says that those of us running Joomla 2.5 on a server shouldn’t update to Joomla 3.0. It’s recommended instead to wait for the next long-term-support release version, which will be Joomla 3.5. If you’re familiar with the update tool in Joomla 2.5, you should not expect to Read More >
