Kristoffer Sandven
Kristoffer Sandven is a photographer, filmmaker and web consultant living in Oslo, Norway. He's the founder and author of JoomlaBlogger.
Joomla 2.5.2 is a security release
The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.2. This is a security release. The Production Leadership Team's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.
The update process is very simple, and complete instructions are available here. Note that there are now easier and better ways of updating than FTPing the files.
J and Beyond 2012 in Bad Neuheim, Germany - call for papers
J and Beyond, an International Joomla® Conference in May 18th - 20th, 2012, Bad Nauheim, Germany is coming and the deadline for submitting proposals for sessions is on 1st April.
J and Beyond, an International Joomla! Conference, is back for the third year. For 3 days in May (18th -20th) Joomla! developers and site builders from over 30 countries will gather in Bad Nauheim, near Frankfurt, right in the heart of Europe.
Joomla blog posts from around the web (9/12)
Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 9:
• Beware the Black Hat template developer
• Volunteers for Community Channels Workgroup wanted
• Joomla! 2.5 template updates Joomla
• RokSprocket & March Joomla Template Release
• The template is dead, long live the template
• Another responsive Joomla template into the mix
• Subscription plan changes for JCal Pro calendar and Agora bulletin board
• Joomla days 2012
• The JoomlaShine templates latest features and improvements
Joomla business templates, February 2012
Every month, each of the major Joomla template clubs release a new template.
In this post, I take another look at the premium business Joomla templates released. This time for the month of February 2012.
There are templates from Youtheme, RocketTheme, Joomla Bamboo, JoomlArt, JoomlaShack, JoomlaXTC and Shape5 on display this month. Enjoy!
Joomla blog posts from around the web (8/12)
Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 8:
• K2 v2.5.5 coming out next week - now supported by 52 language translation teams!
• An open letter to the new OSM president
• Show / Hide a field in RSForm! Pro
• Forms for Joomla 2.5, v0.6.1 Released
• JoomlaPraise is now part of the 'corePHP' family!
• Last chance to save 40 percent on jcal pro and sh404sef
• Google Analytics integration with JoomlaShine templates for Joomla newbies
Paul Orwig takes over after Ryan Ozimek as OSM President
Open Source Matters announced yesterday that Paul Orwig was elected president of the non-profit organization that owns Joomla!®. Paul is known to many as the editor-in-chief of the Joomla Community Magazine.
He did the closing keynote at J and Beyond 2011 and is passionate about the Joomla project.
Today, Ryan Ozimek published an open letter to Paul, sharing some of his insights from his two years as OSM president.
Joomla blog posts from around the web (7/12)
Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 7:
• Forms for Joomla 2.5 Discount
• Introducing the Lifestyle Joomla template
• Learning Joomla from blog posts in the website "JOOMLABLOGGER.NET"
How to hide the "Home" menu item on your frontpage
A reader asked me about this recently. What he wanted was to hide the "Home" menu item when on the frontpage of his site.
I must admit I haven't really been in the situation where I'd needed that. Still, there might be others that need the same functionality on their site. So here are a couple of solutions for hiding a menu item on a particular page.
Joomla blog posts from around the web (4/12)
Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 4:
• Upgrading to Joomla 2.5 - Some Warnings
• Joomla 2.5 Includes New Version of Joomla PHP Framework
• More FILEman Features
• Zentools v1.2 is Joomla 2.5 ready
• Joomla affiliate program : make money online step by step
• JoomlaShine is now ready for Joomla 2.5
Joomla blog posts from around the web (5/12)
Here are some interesting Joomla blog posts I found during week 5:
• Pizza, Bugs, and Fun March 3, 2012
• Latin American Joomla: Joomleiro, Juuntos and Jokte
• Starting the Joomla CCK Conversation
• Superbowl Sale: Save 30% on all JP plans now thru Feb 6, 2012!
• We are ready for Joomla 2.5!
• Get Ready For Joomla 2.5
• Agora 4 beta release due in february
• Joomla affiliate program : make money online step by step
• 5 mobile solutions about Joomla templates and plug-ins
• How to find out if you are on the homepage of Joomla 2.5
• bfForms for Joomla 2.5 released!