Comments on: Ten Things to do after a new Joomla installation

By: kesweh joomla

kesweh joomla — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:46:17 +0000

For SEF personally I prefer artioSEF because he has absolute control of all pages.
For sitemap I use Xmap, although the latest version of artioSEF includes functionality to generate stiemap

By: joomla midlands

joomla midlands — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:10:42 +0000

Great list, I’ll give these a try. I’ve been reading about the JoomlaFCK plug in too, it’s had some great reviews and I want to try it for my site, because it will need quite a lot of regular and frequent editing. I need something that will make my life a lot easier so that I don’t have to spend a lot of time or money updating my site and it will still look great.

By: Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Herbert-Jan van Dinther — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:30:53 +0000

@arnold: Looks like something went wrong with you upload, please try to upload the files again and make sure you keep the directory structure in place.

Also check if you have the right files for your Joomla version, this is really essential!

If you still keep getting errors, you can revert the process with the undo files from joomlatwork.com.

By: arnold

arnold — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:12:17 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the step by step guide, however after uploading the files to the SEF files via the FTP i’m no longer able to access the admin directory. Below is the error message:

Fatal error: Class ‘JAdministrator’ not found in…(server location info omited)…_beta/libraries/joomla/application/application.php on line 139

Looking forward to your feedback,

-Arnold

By: Shared Cpanel Hosting

Shared Cpanel Hosting — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:16:46 +0000

Nice checklist. Though I would recommend that instead of listing the steps first then explaining, it would be best to just bold out the steps and explain it one by one. Just a little suggestion.

By: tekno_boy

tekno_boy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:40:00 +0000

Wow thanks for that! I just saw that google had all my print pages listed, I knew straight away that it meant duplicate pages (not good for SEO, so i’ve heard). I knew how to turn off the icons, but then I also found this page.

Great info thanks!

By: Pathos

Pathos — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:28:19 +0000

@Lafayette

Yes, there is a big difference.
The PHP Mail function is run on the server of your provider.

The second SMTP is used for accessing a remote server.
Both have their drawbacks, especially for security.

If you have trouble receiving emails because your hosting provider has changed some setting to prevent spammers from using this functionality you should switch you contact form.

In the menu parameters of the contact form I now just use the show email function and no longer the form.

The email is encrypted by java script to prevent email harvesters to get the mail address to spam you.
So its a safe way to go, and people are sending your the mail via their own mail program.
In that case is anything goes wrong they get an error message as well, which is not possible via the mail form.

By: Lafayette Jefferson, Jr.

Lafayette Jefferson, Jr. — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:14:29 +0000

Is there a preference in global configuration between the PHP mail function or the SMTP? I’m wondering if I should switch to SMTP because I have some that are not receiving email.

By: Igor Dernov

Igor Dernov — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:55:54 +0000

Wow. Thanks Pathos!
You’re very helpful. I appreciate it.

By: Pathos

Pathos — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:43:52 +0000

igor, until you filled the file, I would suggets you delete it.

In the Google webmaster panel (reachable via Google About, Webmaste central, webmaster toola) you can give the links from Joomap as the place of the sitemap.

In siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com (you need to get a free yahoo account to login) you can put the link in as a feed from your website.

By: Igor Dernov

Igor Dernov — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:13:30 +0000

Cool. Now I got it. I have SEF Advance. I’ll take a look it it have that feature. Thanks. So when Google or Yahoo visiting my site for crawl it will check sitemap.xml first??? What if sitemap.xml is empty (like in my case)???

Or should you specify it somewhere so Google and Yahoo must start checking with sitemap.xml .

By: Pathos

Pathos — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:38:25 +0000

@Igor,

You are mixing two things.
I normally use the OpenSef component to fill the sitemap.xml file.
Joomap won’t do that.

If you want to use Joomap as a service to put into Google’s webmaster panel, you have to put the URL given by Joomap on the second page of the component to Google.

If I look at your website you use some kind of SEF Component, please check if that delivers a sitemap.xml file

Like said, I normally use the OpenSEF component to handle this, because it puts clean URLs in a real sitemap.xml file.

By: Igor Dernov

Igor Dernov — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:41:53 +0000

OK. So I have sitemap.xml in root right now. All what it have right now:
-
-
http://aromacup.com/
0.5
daily

How I can fill it with right info. For example this:
http://aromacup.com/index.php?option=com_joomap&view=google

By: Pathos

Pathos — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:44:07 +0000

@Igor

You don’t have to fill it, its done automatically.
One you have the Joomap component installed, create a Menu item and select the “Component” item in your right hand top field.

Publish the Menu item and visit it from the front-end of your website.

You should have a page with all the pages of you site (depending on you configuration settings)

By: Igor Dernov

Igor Dernov — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:11:20 +0000

How I can make Joomap to fill it????? Is here a settings somewhere???