Joomla 2.5 Templates – defined(‘_JEXEC’) or die

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. The first section of PHP code that we see in the Beez2 template is the following: // No direct access.defined(‘_JEXEC’) or Read More >

Adding Google Analytics to Joomla 2.5

Google Analtyics is a great tool you can use in conjunction with Joomla 2.5 to help track all of the traffic that your website receives. It is free to setup and use Google Analtyics, and this guide will walk you through the necessary installation steps. Because Google Analytics is an industry standard, there are many Read More >

Inserting a slideshow on your Joomla 2.5 Homepage

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 last few articles, we have been creating a slideshow within Joomla 2.5 using the Unite Nivo Slider extension. Our Read More >

How to add new slides to a Unite Nivo Slider in Joomla 2.5

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 last two tutorials, we walked you through the steps for installing Unite Nivo Slider for Joomla 2.5 and creating Read More >

How to install Unite Nivo Slider for Joomla 2.5

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. Unite Nivo Slider is a free Joomla 2.5 Slideshow component that you can use to insert a photo slideshow in your Read More >

Joomla 2.5 Editor

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 this article we’ll elaborate more on the phrase Joomla 2.5 editor. There are different types of editors, and there are Read More >

Add Custom User Profile Fields in Joomla – Step 3/3

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 last few tutorials, we have been showing you the steps in how to add custom fields to the Joomla Read More >

Add Custom User Profile Fields in Joomla 2.5 – Step 2/3

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’re following our tutorial on adding custom fields to the Joomla 2.5 User Profile plugin, our next step is to Read More >

Add Custom User Profile Fields in Joomla Step 1/3

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. The default Joomla 2.5 user profile plugin allows your site users to input more information about themselves than what is by Read More >

How to create a User Profile menu item in Joomla 2.5

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 last tutorial, we showed you how logged in users can view their profile using the User Profile link in Read More >

Viewing User Profiles in Joomla 2.5

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. User profiles in Joomla 2.5 are only available for users once they have logged in. Once a user is logged in, Read More >

How to enable the Joomla 2.5 User Profile plugin

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 the following tutorial, we’ll show you how to enable the Joomla 2.5 User Profile Plugin. Enabling the Joomla 2.5 User Read More >

How to change the default editor in Joomla 2.5

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 last tutorial, we downloaded and installed the JCE editor for Joomla 2.5. Before we can begin using the JCE Read More >

How to download and install the JCE Editor for Joomla 2.5

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 creating and editing articles in Joomla 2.5, you are using the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. There are other editors you can Read More >

How to embed a PDF in a Joomla 2.5 Article

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. Due to their popularity, PDF documents are everywhere these days. For example, many people buy PDF books online or send / Read More >

Changing the width of fields in aiContactSafe forms

In our last aiContactSafe tutorial we created a new field, Website URL. After testing the form, we noticed that the width of the textbox for the user’s web address is not as long as the other fields (such as Name, Email, and Phone). To make the form look more professional, we would like the text Read More >

How to change the order of fields in aiContactSafe forms

In our last aiContactSafe tutorial, we walked you through the steps for adding new fields to your form. We noticed that by default however this new field will be the last field in the form. In our example, we’d prefer to have the field in a different position, so what we’ll need to do is Read More >

How to add a new field to aiContactSafe forms

The default form in aiContactSafe contains the following fields: Name Email Phone Subject Message With aiContactSafe, you can add additional fields to your forms in order to get more information from the user. For example, if you wanted a field where someone can enter their website URL, you can easily do this. In this aiContactSafe Read More >