Joomla

How-tos and quick tips for the Joomla Content Management System (CMS)

Resetting Joomla admin password

It is a testiment to my own foul forgetfulness that I am endlessly hunting the Joomla forums for the post that explains how to reset the admin password for Joomla.

Rather, it’s not that I can’t remember how to do it – doing it is quite simple – it’s I can’t remember the values to insert.

The only way to “reset” your Joomla password is by editing the database directly. Simply:

  1. Access your database, either via phpMyAdmin or whatever program

How To: Joomla Multi-Language Content Support

This is a quick and basic “how to” for anyone looking to add multi-language support to their content in Joomla 1.5. Eventually I imagine the folks over at the Joom!Fish project will get around to updating their excellent component, but until then anyone that’s in need of multi-lingual content using Joomla 1.5 is SOL.

My switch from the Joomla 1.0.x series to the new (and much improved) Joomla 1.5 series is still quite recent. I’m planning a post outlining the …