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Tip: fix cut-off information in Trombinoscope Contacts cards
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Trombinoscope Contacts v4.0 brought up a number of improvements, one of which being a new way to improve the readability of contact information on smaller screens, mobile devices or when resizing... -
You can eliminate cache issues in SimplifyYourWeb extensions
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You have been setting up one of the extensions downloaded from this site and you are having a difficult time understanding what is going on with some of the advanced parameters... What is site mode?... -
Making the cut with jQuery and MooTools in Joomla: The multiple jQuery libraries loading problem - Part 1
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Although the two libraries MooTools and jQuery can co-exist together, one problem remains as more and more such extensions are made available: each module, plugin, component or even template can...
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- Category: Tutorials
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Integrate any captcha plugin into any custom Joomla! form
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- First published January 24, 2015
- 13906 hits
I came upon a problem on a component that offered captcha integration. I could load the standard reCaptcha plugin packaged with the Joomla! framework but none of the custom captcha plugins I wanted to feed it to.
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- Category: Tutorials
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Troubleshoot blank screen after installing/updating an extension
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- First published April 08, 2016
- 18696 hits
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- Any Simplify Your Web extension that relies on the lib_syw external library
Once in a while users come across a blank screen on the public side of their website. Rarely they may have the same experience on some administrator console pages.
While this could be a bug introduced by the latest extension update, it actually is most likely an issue with the external library that is necessary for most of our extensions to work.
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- Category: Tutorials
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Add an icon or an image to the 'read more' link in Latest News Enhanced
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- First published January 12, 2018
- 12755 hits
Your website's design may require a detail that is not available in the Latest News Enhanced (free and pro) Joomla! extensions. You want to show a link of type Read More
but the label is not enough, you need a visual in the form of an icon or an image following or preceding the label.
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- Category: Tutorials
- Hits: 28808
Fix tooltip conflicts between Bootstrap and jQuery UI in Joomla
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- First published January 17, 2017
- 28808 hits
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jQuery Easy Profiles
While creating your Joomla! 3 site, you may run into anomalies when it comes to showing tooltips, particularly if you are loading Bootstrap and jQuery UI libraries simultaneously. Some elements may get a nice Bootstrap-like tooltip while others may get a tooltip looking like the jQuery UI theme that is used by some of your extensions. Some tooltips may not even be skinned at all. Or the tooltips may not properly show at all, the code is "broken".
This tutorial will explain what is actually happening and how you can fix and homogenize your pages with jQuery Easy Profiles.
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- Category: Tutorials
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Expand/collapse menu items with children in Joomla's Protostar template
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- First published October 15, 2018
- 9169 hits
I have recently tried to make the documentation menus on the Simplify Your Web
website a little more 'user friendly'.
One element that was particularly missing was the possibility to see sub-menu items of parent menu items without the need to refresh the pages. At the same time, I wanted to make sure visitors of the site were aware there was more to see under certain items...
This tutorial will show you how I proceeded and how you can do it too.
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- Category: Tutorials
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Solve jQuery issues with jQuery Easy: a case study
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- First published September 04, 2012
- 15603 hits
Since the plugin has been available online, many issues were presented to me and frankly, some websites can become a real mess when so many extensions use there own jQuery code. Forget about jQuery and MooTools conflicts! jQuery conflicts alone are mostly taking websites down to their knees.
Here is a case study I wanted to share, as I was researching the best way to correct such a mess, with the help of the jQuery Easy plugin. In this study, we will handle jQuery/MooTools conflicts and allow jQuery extensions to use their own variables.
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Solve jQuery/jQuery and jQuery/MooTools conflict issues with the jQuery Easy plugin
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- First published April 10, 2012
- 77439 hits
Over the past few months, a large number of users have asked my help in finding out what was wrong with their website, even after installing the jQuery Easy plugin.
In this article, I will try and address ways of fixing these issues, with the help of the plugin.
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