I was looking for an extension to support pagination in Joomla! articles, but it turns out that Joomla! 1.5 has that feature built in. How very convenient. Update March 21, 2010: Joe asked for elaboration, so here it is. Pagination is breaking content up into multiple pages. You see this frequently on news and magazine [...]
Browsing Posts in Web Applications
I’ve been getting a lot of automated spam comments on my blog recently. Since the comments must be approved before they appear, this hasn’t created a problem for readers, but having to flag a dozen of them as spam every morning is a pain. A quick look through the plug-in repository for WordPress yielded this [...]
Here’s a quick tip for all of the Joomla! 1.5 users out there. If you’re trying to hide the name of the site on the home page, you’ve probably scoured the fora looking for an answer. I know that I did, without luck. I stumbled on the answer recently while poking around. Why would you [...]
One thing that’s been bothering me with Joomla! is that the main menu (and other menus, for that matter) doesn’t differentiate the first and last menu items’ mark-up in any way. This can make it difficult to control their appearance via CSS. You might want to do so, for example, in order to set the [...]
I’ve written about evaluating TikiWiki and MediaWiki for use as a way to create and manage internal documentation for a client. The former fell short on implementation and the latter wasn’t a good fit for the project. After checking a number of wiki applications listed in Wikipedia’s wiki comparison page, I spotted DokuWiki. According to [...]
Yesterday I wrote about trying to use TikiWiki to set up a wiki for a client. The wiki is supposed to have both public and private sections. Today, I spent some time evaluating MediaWiki for that purpose. I’ve used MediaWiki as an end user many times. Wikipedia is the canonical example, of course, but there [...]
An attempt to use TikiWiki fails due to outdated and incomplete documentation and UI issues.
