AlphaRegistration for Joomla improves on the default Joomla Registration Component by adding Re Captcha to the registration process. In addition, it adds a visual, 3-step process and indicator to help eliminate confusion about the verification email sent during the registration process. (more…)

Joomla 1.5 has had 14 Security Updates since it started, and a new one is on the way. Applying a new update is pretty easy: Just upload the update to your webserver. But uploading is easier said than done. The 1.5.14 update contains over 1,400 files. It can take a LONG time to upload that many files; plus there’s a good chance that you will get a transfer error with that many files. Read on to learn the easy way. (more…)

If you don’t make regular backups of your Joomla website, you are like a person with no health insurance: you’re fine until a disaster hits you. Don’t get caught without site insurance: Make regular, complete backups of your website. (more…)

Has your Joomla website been hacked? If not, you’re lucky. A client called me last week because her Joomla site had been hacked. There were several weak security issues that might have allowed the hackers to get in, and there are a few simple things she could have done t0 prevent it. (more…)