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WordPress Vs. Joomla: Which One Is Better?

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It is essential that you have a good content management system (CMS) if you do not know how to code and want to set up a website. You can create, manage, and modify your website with a CMS without knowing any HTML or CSS coding. Currently, two such CMS platforms dominate the market: WordPress and Joomla. WordPress and Joomla are open-source CMS platforms that have been around for a long time. The purpose of this article is to compare WordPress and Joomla side by side to determine which is the best choice for you. WordPress Vs. Joomla: A Comprehensive Comparison A search for WordPress Vs. Joomla will bring up plenty of ideological differences between developers on both sides. In general, you'll find these reasons on each side as to why they choose one platform over the other: 1- Security: Is WordPress as Secure as Joomla? A platform's security is determined by its weakest link. assessing how well CRMs handle vulnerabilities is essential when ...

Main Reasons to Choose Joomla for Your CMS

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A new website for your organization can be built with many website builders, platforms, and content management systems. Choosing a DIY-hosted service may seem appealing, but it might not be the best choice in the long run. Joomla, which CMS Critic has voted as "Best Free CMS" many times, is a great choice. Users can create and maintain web-based applications and websites using Joomla's graphical interface instead of coding. Due to its open-source nature and the fact that no programming knowledge is required, it has become a popular choice. Creating a website and connecting the backend to a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL are simple. These are some of the main reasons why you should consider it. What is Joomla? It is a content management system that makes creating a website or web-based application easy using GUI operations rather than writing code. Open-source software is widely used because it requires no programming knowledge or experience. One can eas...

How to Turn Off Update Notification Icons in Joomla!?

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This is a quick tip for those admins/developers who are a bit new to Joomla! Joomla! has a notification bar at the top of it’s first admin panel screen. When and update for Joomla! or one of the extensions that your website uses is available, a notification about that shows up on the notification bar. Since the appearance of this notifications looks like an error, warning or somehow, you may know about the update but have not done it for a reason and now, you have that ugly notification that you want to get rid of it. There may be a lot more scenarios that make you disable those notifications. In any case, the first thing you need to know is that those notifications are being controlled by 2 Joomla! System Plugins. Two plugins that are enabled by default when you install Joomla! Know, it’s very easy for many of you to handle it. But I’ll describe it by images for you. Turning Joomla! Update Notifications Off Step by Step Step 1: Login to your Joomla!...

How to Access Joomla! Base URI?

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This is a quick tip about Joomla! development. Sometimes you, as a Joomla! developer need to create a link to the Joomla! base or somewhere else in Joomla! websites. If everything is stable and won’t change in the future, you can create an static link like  http://site.com/components/com_content/views . But the more clever and predicting way to link to somewhere in Joomla! is using base uri as the starting point of the path. In this case we redo the link above like below: JURI::root().’components/com_content/views As you see, the key of this subject is  JURI::root() . It’s in PHP programming language and you can use it in your template/extension PHP files. The way you can use it is clearly described below. This link is written in PHP so you can use it in your HTML code like this: Check Out Our 3D Web Development Projects We have done a lot of 3D website , 3...

How to Create a Contact form in Joomla!

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Contact form is the most common communication solution for websites. As an administrator, you need a gate open for your visitors so they can send you their messages, feedback etc. and having a contact form on your website, covers this necessity. In this tutorials I walk you through the process of  Creating a Contact form in Joomla!  So, you’ll be able to create as many as contact forms for your Joomla! website, linked to the emails you’d like. Joomla! provides a built-in component called “Contacts”. This component helps you make categories for your contacts and create as many contacts you need and put them in relevant categories. You ready to get started? So, let’s go! Step 1: Create a Contact Category You need a category for your contact(s) first. So, after logging into the Joomla! admin panel, go to Components > Contacts > Categories. On the next page, click on the “New” button at the top. In the form opened, name t...

How to Recover Joomla! Administrator Password via PHPMyAdmin

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Joomla! Administration Password Recovery For some reasons Joomla! admin password may be lost. In this situation, the administrator needs a solution to reset his/her password in order to take the website under control again. Resetting the password will be an easy job if you still have access to the hosting account of the website. In this article we will describe, how to recover a Joomla! administration password via PHPMyAdmin. In this article we use cPanel. Since it’s the most common hosting control panel. But this guideline can be used for other panels as well. Reset Joomla! Password via PHPMyAdmin 1. Go to your hosting area and login. 2. Scroll down to the “Database” block and click on the “PHPMyAdmin” icon. 3. Select the database of the website by clicking on its name and wait for it to load the tables. 4. Click on the prefix_users table (prefix is the prefix of your Joomla! tables). 5. Find the “Super User” account and hit its “Edit” icon. ...