RSJoomla! Blog - Development

After updating to Joomla! 3.4.0, you may have encountered some extensions that did install in previous Joomla! versions are now throwing the message:

What is causing the error

Joomla! 3.4.0 introduced a new security feature, scanning uploaded files for potential dangerous code. For example, it scans uploaded archives for PHP code - something that should not be done in the Extensions Installer (com_installer). Fortunately, Joomla! contributors already debugged and fixed this (pull request here) so if you don't want to wait until 3.4.1 is released, read this blog post.

Why go slow when you can go faster... right? The truth is - site visitors get agravated if an website takes forever to load and will eventually find relevant content somewhere else. Needless to say that user browsing experience has a big thing to say when it comes down to SEO ranking. There are a lot of factors that take a toll within the overall page load time, but here we will focus on what you can do to improve website performance from a Joomla! configuration point of view, namely cache.

An issue recently introduced in Joomla! 3.3.4 (pull request here) makes navigating back to the first page impossible when using SEF. When you click to go to the second page and then attempt to go back to the first page, you'll actually stay on the same page. This is because the "limitstart" parameter is missing from the URL due to this cosmetic change (which attempts to avoid duplicate URLs). They're fixing it in the upcoming 3.3.7 release (pull request here).

Read on for instructions on how to fix this.

After analyzing what differentiates a website from another in terms of productivity, we came to the conclusion that the communication between you (the website) and your targeted audience is crucial. Although there are plenty of form generators (we even have the best there is: RSForm! Pro ) we believe that not everyone has time to learn to use a component and decided to create a module that is user friendly, but still retain the quality of RSJoomla! products.

Joomla! 1.5 has had a (longer than expected) good run and we've been offerring support for our customers long after it entered end of life, with the release of 1.5.26 back in March 2012. However, things need to move forward.

We will be dropping support for Joomla! 1.5 completely beginning 1st of March, 2015.