Posts Tagged ‘j!1.5

SEOSimple Joomla 1.5 Plugin v1.3

SEOSimple BoxMan, since I released SEOSimple v1.2 a few weeks ago I’ve learned a massive lesson – WAY too many people are still using servers that employ PHP4 – the php engine that was replaced with PHP5 four years ago.

For anyone that tried to use the plugin with PHP4, I’m sorry about breaking your site. Actually it’s an old PHP4 bug that broke your site, but I’ll apologize anyway. So sorry I sat my butt down and whipped together a …

SEOSimple Joomla 1.5 Plugin v1.2

SEOSimple BoxClose on the heels of the release of v1.1 I’m releasing v1.2 of the SEOSimple Joomla 1.5 plugin.

I’ve just tweaked a few things to better support UTF-8 encoding, word wrapping of the descriptions and better handling of the Section and Category page descriptions.

Please report any problems you have either on the SEO Simple Support Forum, or in the comments on the SEOSimple home page.…

SEOSimple Joomla 1.5 Plugin v1.1

SEOSimple BoxJust a quick note to say that version 1.1 of the SEOSimple plugin has been released. This was just a quick release to add some additional front page title tag configurations.

You can now totally and independently control your Joomla 1.5 front page title tag using the following options:

  • [optional fp title] | [site title]
  • [site title] | [optional fp title]
  • [optional fp title]
  • [site title]

* the [optional fp title] is whatever was imputed for the “Optional Front Page …

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

autoMetaDescSEO changed to SEOSimple – new name, new features!

I’ve released a new version of autoMetaDescSEO, fixing many of the problems – including the stupid name – of the first release.

I’ve changed the name to SEOSimple to better reflect the fact that the Joomla 1.5 plugin project has expanded to include a few more useful SEO features.

Briefly, features of SEOSimple include:

- Auto generation of meta description tags for all pages/articles that don’t have a description tag set in the backend’s Article Manager. If if you wish …

A simple SEO plugin for Joomla 1.5

Well, I’ve officially smashed together my first Joomla 1.5 plugin – autoMetaDescSEO – crappy name, I know.

You can get all the details about the plugin at its “official” homepage, but briefly, the plugin simply takes a set chunk of text from the page’s content and slips it into the page’s meta description tag.

This was initially created for a site I was working on that had a number of pages, which I had no intention of hand-inserting meta …