Joomla 2.5 ACL – Overview Updated on August 16, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. ACL, short for Access Control Lists, controls the rights each user has within your Joomla 2.5 website. These rights include logging Read More >
Joomla 2.5 Download Updated on August 16, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. March 28th, 2011A few weeks ago, I decided to download joomla 2.5. I’ve tested many of its features and capabilities, and Read More >
How to create a Joomla 2.5 poll module Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our previous articles, we walked you through installing AcePolls and creating your first poll in Joomla 2.5. Your next step Read More >
How to create a new Joomla 2.5 AcePolls poll Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. If you would like to add polls to your Joomla 2.5 website, you can do so using the AcePolls extension. In Read More >
Joomla 2.5 Polls – Installing AcePolls Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. If you want a poll on your Joomla 2.5 website, you can add a poll using AcePolls. In this tutorial, we’ll Read More >
How to create a Smart Search Module in Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In previous articles, we showed you how to enable Smart Search in Joomla 2.5 and how to index your content for Read More >
Index Content for Joomla 2.5 Smart Search Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our previous tutorial, we walked you through the steps for enabling Smart Search in Joomla 2.5. The next step is Read More >
Enable Smart Search in Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. While previous versions of Joomla include by default a site search feature, Joomla 2.5 now includes a feature called Smart Search. Read More >
Prevent New Account activation email sent to Joomla 2.5 Administrator Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When users sign up for new accounts on your Joomla 2.5 website, if your new user activation settings are set to Read More >
Creating a Horizontal menu in Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In previous versions of Joomla, the ability to create both vertical and horizontal menus was built in. With newer versions of Read More >
How to display modules on your Joomla 2.5 homepage Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In a previous article, we showed you how to move a Joomla 2.5 module to a different position. As we continue Read More >
How to Change a Joomla 2.5 User’s Email Address Updated on February 19, 2025 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When you initially create an account in Joomla 2.5, you enter an email address to associate with the account. If Read More >
Joomla 2.5 – Put a Module in an Article Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In Joomla, modules are placed in positions, and those positions are defined by your template. If needed, you can however put Read More >
Joomla 2.5 – Disable mootools Updated on August 16, 2021 by Brad Markle Mootools is a lightweight javascript framework used in Joomla 2.5. Your Joomla website will by default include both mootools-core.js (92.9 KB) and mootools-more.js (233 KB). Mootools is used mostly in your Joomla Admin Dashboard, it is not used often in Joomla templates. UPDATE – 2012.05.11After several months of testing Joomla 2.5 and various components, we Read More >
Joomla 2.5 Templates – $this->baseurl Updated on February 21, 2022 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our quest to review all the PHP code in the index.php file of the Beez2 template, we come to the Read More >
How to use the Joomla 2.5 Language Overrides Tool Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. Much of Joomla 2.5 runs off of language files. These language files store values for commonly used words and phrases, and Read More >
How to Add a New Note for a Joomla 2.5 user Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. A new feature in Joomla 2.5 is the User Notes feature. This feature allows you to log notes on users. Other Read More >
How to upgrade to Joomla 2.5.2 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. On March 5th 2012, the Joomla team released Joomla 2.5.2. It was a security release, so it is very important to Read More >
How to create a new Joomla 2.5 Administrator Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When you manually install Joomla 2.5, the user account that is created is an administrator account. This means that this user Read More >
How to use the Joomla 2.5 Redirect Manager Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 includes a new handy component referred to as Redirect Manager. The Redirect Manager keeps track of bad URLs, such as 404 file not found URLs, and allows you to easily redirect the broken links to other pages. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the Joomla Redirect Manager. To use the Read More >