Category Archives: CMS

Useful code, tips, and hints regarding with Content Management Systems such as Joomla!, Radiant, and/or Drupal.

Top 11th WordPress Plugin WP-Cache

By TechKnow | February 7, 2007

Recently, I wrote a Top 10 WordPress Plugins list. I should have made it Top 11. The additional plugin recommendation goes to WP-Cache. As you can gather from the name, WP-Cache will backup each WordPress HTML page in the file system so that the HTTP server responds faster for each page view. [...]

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Top 10 WordPress Plugins

By TechKnow | January 16, 2007

1. Akismet by Automattic is probably the best WP plugin out there. Akismet is a comment and trackback spam filter for your WP powered blog. It is a true mathematical equation that your blogs page rank is exponentially proportional to the number of viagra and penis enlargement spam comments you will receive. [...]

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AJAX Header Rotator

By TechKnow | January 7, 2007

The Joomla! installation comes with a neat module called Random Image. The Random Image module accepts an image directory path, and image type and will randomly and dynamically displays one of the images found in the image directory path for every visit.
But if you want to dynamically display images on you Joomla! site, I [...]

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Joomla! Sections and Categories

By TechKnow | December 8, 2006

Joomla! has content buckets called sections and categories. A section can contain one or more categories. Before any new content or article can be published you need to specify both the section and category for it. Just as an example, if I would maintain a Joomla! powered programming site I would define [...]

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Joomla! Global Configuration

By TechKnow | December 7, 2006

I’ve been using Joomla! for some time now for a few sites that I have set up. Joomla! comes with a great installation wizard that had a series of green, or red, lights that indicate if your server is Joomla! ready. The only real information you need before hand is the database information [...]

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