If you use the Phoca Gallery with your Joomla site you will more than likely need to change the color of your Facebook comments.

Here’s how to do it:

• Log into your FTP and browse to the Joomla install directory
• Then go to “your_joomla_root_folder”/modules/mod_phoca_facebook_comments
• Open the folder named tmpl
• Open default.php for editing

Look for the line like this one

echo ‘<div><fb:comments href=”‘. $tmpl['uri'] .’” simple=”1″ ‘. $cCount.’ width=”‘. (int)$tmpl['fb_comment_width'] .’”></fb:comments>’

And change it to this:
echo ‘<div><fb:comments ‘ colorscheme=”dark” href=”‘. $tmpl['uri'] .’” simple=”1″ ‘. $cCount.’ width=”‘. (int)$tmpl['fb_comment_width'] .’”></fb:comments>’

Note the addition of code colorscheme=”dark”.

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I have worked on many websites using Joomla!, though my focus and attention has been focused on other responsibilities recently, my memory still serves me well. Regardless, here I’ll show you how to add content to a Joomla! page. Adding content or articles to a web-based CMS like Joomla! is all done online. I do believe there is a desktop application available but I’m not certain. To be able to post articles you will need to login to the user account that is allowed to post articles.

After having Joomla! installed you can begin adding your content. For this  example I’ll assume that your domain is your_domain_name.com. So the Joomla admin panel will be accessible at:

http://your_domain_name.com/administrator

So it’s: Admin Area -> Site -> Control panel -> Add New Article.

Fill in the six fields!

Title: The title of your article
Alias: You can leave this blank it will be automatically filled as per the title you choose.
Section: Choose appropriate section for your site
Category: Choose appropriate category for your site
Published: Yes (If the article is not published, it will not be shown to your visitors. It will remain only as a draft.)
Frontpage: Yes, if you want it on the front/first page of your site.

Add your content. The editor is WYSIWYG. More advanced users can edit the HTML source code directly.

Now in Parameters (Article) you can choose option for Author, Author Alias, Access Level, Created Date and Start Publishing. Choose Apply to post your article.

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Besides WordPress for my website design and developement duties, I also use Joomla who have just released a security update [Wohmamni] to their CMS. Please follow the link below for more detailed information on how to proceed with the update. I’ve already done so and I suggest all Joomla users upgrade as soon as possible.

Joomla 1.5.10 release info

 

This release contains 66 bug fixes, one low-level security fix, and one moderate-level security fix. It has been 11 weeks since Joomla 1.5.9 was released on January 10, 2009. The Development Working Group’s goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

 

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