Marty's posts tagged with Joomla

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Choosing the best content management system (CMS) Picking a CMS means considering a project’s requirements, its authors and its budget, with the right choice depending on what the website actually needs to do and support. 24 Jun 2020 10 min read

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Extending the ItemHelper for Joomla Adding a word-aware truncation method to my Joomla ItemHelper keeps shortened text tidy, bringing another piece of reusable logic into the helper instead of repeating it across overrides. 8 Oct 2019 6 min read

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How to easily access to Custom Fields in Joomla Working with lots of Joomla Custom Fields led me to write a helper that centralises their processing, making individual values easier to access and reuse across template overrides. 23 Jul 2019 10 min read

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The strengths (and limits) of Joomla's overrides Joomla’s layout overrides give me plenty of control without editing core files, although getting pagination to stop loading Bootstrap took a little extra investigation. 2 Oct 2018 5 min read

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Upcoming changes to Joomla 4's head include Getting more control over where scripts and styles appear made Joomla 4’s new template includes a particularly welcome discovery in my experiments with its alpha. 21 Sep 2018 2 min read

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