Joomla: Why use it?

Joomla: Why use it?

Monday, Oct 19, 2009
Obviously, the question as to why people are using it is one that can be prompted with a number of answers, yet I will put my few points down: The backend/administration is understandable This can be a big problem, especially when using CMS for no IT professional, which I guess I would class myself as. Joomla has a relatively smooth and easy learning curve to being able to publish articles and create users/emails all fro its backend. ...

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Falsifying timestamps

Falsifying timestamps

Friday, Oct 9, 2009
I have been looking at a way of inputting content into drupal but falsifying the timestamp to show it as content created years ago. Currently I am in the process of migrating a number of static sites to drupal and as such have to manually copy and paste some of the content across. This then gives timestamps and revisions as new, despite the data being old (between 1-5 years). I wrote this as a simple way of changing timestamps, obviously not for general use, but it does hack the nodes to pretend its old data: ...

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My Joomla Essentials

My Joomla Essentials

Sunday, Sep 20, 2009
With regards to Joomla essential, much of what you need to do content writing and suchlike is alread built in. Fantastic. And for delivering content to users, either registered or public, is great.

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