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  • Have questions? We have answers.
    pSo, today's controversial (no doubt this blog will elicit replies bemoaning the built in Joomla search, why we use Google etc etc ) subject that I'm tackling: /ppnbsp;/ppstrongSearching for 'stuff' on the Joomla.org suite of sites/strong/ppWhat is one thing that Google knows how to do? Search. Therefore, we've setup an excellent tool, using Google to help you locate resources from almost all the Joomla sites in one place. To use it, you will need to start here: a href="http://forum.joomla.org" target="_blank" title="Joomla Forum"http://forum.joomla.org/a/ppNext, note the search box up the top right. After adding your search term and searching, be sure to use the 'refinement' tabs that appear on the next page. /ppYou'll notice from these tabs just how many of our sites this particular search tool uses. It works, and it works very well IF people use it./ppnbsp;/ppI hope you enjoy that tip for today. Make sure you spread the word about it as well./ppPS Thanks to all at that a href="http://www.joomlanyc.org/" target="_blank" title="NYC Usergroup"NYC Usergroup/a who listened to my voice for over an hour today while I answered their questions and shared Joomla "stuff" with them. /ppnbsp;/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/R1Fdw5dnf_K5JlairxBp7R5E48g/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/R1Fdw5dnf_K5JlairxBp7R5E48g/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=VBftf5Jx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=DhmHYqj9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=DhmHYqj9" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=fB5v8ARW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=fB5v8ARW" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=fRl6kUo6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=52" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog/~4/DF9PbQDiQYo" height="1" width="1"/

  • Buy at our Joomla! Amazon Bookstores and Support the Joomla Project!
    p style="text-align: center;"a href="http://shop.joomla.org/amazoncom-bookstores.html" target="_blank"img title="Joomla Amazon bookstores" alt="" src="http://community.joomla.org/images/banners/banner_amazonbbookstores_01_468px.jpg" //a/p p style="text-align: left;"There are currently a href="http://shop.joomla.org/amazoncom-bookstores.html"5 Joomla! Amazon bookstores/a in the following countries:/p ul lia href="http://shop.joomla.org/amazoncom-bookstores.html" target="_self"United States/a/li lia href="http://shop.joomla.org/amazonca-bookstores.html" target="_self"Canada/a#160;/li lia href="http://shop.joomla.org/amazoncouk-bookstores.html" target="_self"United Kingdom/a/li lia href="http://shop.joomla.org/amazonde-bookstores.html" target="_self"Germany/a/li lia href="http://shop.joomla.org/amazonfr-bookstores.html" target="_self"France/a/li /ul pThese bookstores are one of the ways span class="verupdated" title=""that OpenSourceMatters generates/span income to fund the Joomla Project: from providing servers to host our sites, purchasing marketing materials such as banners and brochures, promoting Joomla at Expos, conferences and Joomla Day events as well as to span class="spellmodupdated" title=""provide accounting/span, legal and administrative services./p pDepending on the volume of span class="ver" title=""books and other/span merchandise sold from each of the Joomla Amazon bookstores determines the commission received. Currently, it is anywhere from 4% to 6.5%. Our United States bookstore averages 6.5%.#160;/p pThe Joomla Project receives a commission on strongall merchandise/strong purchased though our bookstores, not only the purchase of Joomla books. This includes all other books, as well as music and other merchandise. Most people tend to purchase more than one item to save on shipping costs./p pSo the next time that you are planning to purchase a book or span class="modupdated" title=""music, etc./span.. please purchase it in one of the a href="http://shop.joomla.org/" target="_self"Joomla! Amazon Bookstores/a! strongEvery little bit helps/strong in generating the necessary income to fund the Joomla! Project./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/yo0rDQs4AN8qf5qpckCt-L74pwY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/yo0rDQs4AN8qf5qpckCt-L74pwY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=D3ixUIuM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=B3lpIQYz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=B3lpIQYz" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=iOnqbfgG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=iOnqbfgG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=EUwokmPV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=52" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog/~4/516tXnCLhXE" height="1" width="1"/

  • Some October 2008 Statistics
    pspan class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;" divJust some quick stats from my monthly analysis of our sites:#160;/div div#160;/div div* In less than a month, we have increased from 5000 to 13 691 subscribers to the Joomla Security News Feed. Most of these are email#160;subscriptions. 9011 subscribe to the main announcement (Frontpage feed) with 6770 subscribed to the Core Team blogs./div div#160;/div divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"I'm encouraged to see the Security Mailing list increasing so well. Keep spreading the word!/span#160;/div div#160;/div div* Forum stats to date (end October 2008) :/div div divNumber of posts: #160;span style="white-space: pre;" /span1414522 #160;span style="white-space: pre;" /spanPosts per day: #160;span style="white-space: pre;" /span1199.35/div divNumber of topics:#160;span style="white-space: pre;" /span308249#160;span style="white-space: pre;" /spanTopics per day:#160;span style="white-space: pre;" /span261.36/div divNumber of users:#160;span style="white-space: pre;" /span229616#160;span style="white-space: pre;" /spanNew#160;Users per day:#160;span style="white-space: pre;" /span194.69/div div#160;/div div* We passed the 7 million download mark for the Joomla Package on a href="http://www.joomlacode.org"JoomlaCode.org/a/div div#160;/div div#160;/div div#160;/div divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Coming#160;up:/span/div div#160;/div div* All the blogs on#160;a target="_blank" href="http://developer.joomla.org/"developer.joomla.org/a#160;are#160;coming#160;over to#160;a target="_blank" href="http://community.joomla.org/"community.joomla.org/a (When we get time to make it happen)/div div* Migration of a href="http://extensions.joomla.org"JED/a to new template./div div* New template on#160;a target="_blank" href="http://developer.joomla.org/"developer.joomla.org/a/div div* New template on#160;a target="_blank" href="http://docs.joomla.org/"docs.joomla.org/a#160;/div div#160;/div div#160;/div divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"We are always in need of volunteers and helpers. If you would like to help and contribute to the Joomla Project, please see:#160;/spana href="http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla/contribute-to-joomla.html"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"Contribute to Joomla/span/aspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"#160;/span/div div#160;/div div.. see you all somewhere out there in the JoomlaSphere!#160;/div /div /span/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zgGtyIMz2rjIl0aF8y_gDZyh2fc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zgGtyIMz2rjIl0aF8y_gDZyh2fc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=BvoqomHr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=v7A33JtV"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=v7A33JtV" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=tx44c4bP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=tx44c4bP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=DYMWTcwZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=52" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog/~4/Yx-ANtWwB0g" height="1" width="1"/

  • Take the easy way out, just blame Joomla!
    pWell... another day in the a href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=432"span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"Stupid Section/span/aspan style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"'/span (Security) of the forum. The cycle still continues though, and it's been a few weeks since I blogged about it, so it's that time again./ppFirst off, WHY oh WHY do people not read the stickies and the forum note in this section? If they did, they would start off with a href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432t=335090"this post/a and then follow this a href="http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_Administrators_Security_Checklist"link to the Security Checklist/a. Are these links not clear enough? Do people these days, in the modern world, lack the ability to use the big box up the top right - SEARCH? /ppMy personal favorite (insert other word of your choosing) post for today is a href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432t=323729"this one/a. These people *think* that a feature of Joomla! is an span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span"admin password expiry/span. Instead of bothering to consider that such a feature makes no sense at all, and perhaps entertain the fact that their site and/or host may well have been compromised they claim that we (Support) are hiding something from them. /ppAnyway... that subject for another day, the one that we, the Joomla! Community should (obligated, must, have to, help me now) be providing free support to people. /ppSeriously though, have you seen how extensive and well written the a href="http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_Administrators_Security_Checklist"Security Checklist/a is?  Is it too hard to find? Perhaps we shoulda href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=1472659#p1472659" close the entire security forum/a, as these days 99% of the posts come back to 2 things (the same two I have blogged about many times):/pp 1. Users keeping their sites updated/patched and /pp2. Secure Hosting setup (php5, suphp, among other things)./ppAre we not doing enough to span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"educate people/span? Or are the webhosts to blame such as the one spoken of a href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432t=341240start=0st=0sk=tsd=a"here/a. Surely it is not too much to expect that users will at least *try* to help themselves before they span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span"blame the Joomla! Community/span? Surely peoples hosting providers have a part to play also in placing the blame in the correct place (usually with the user or the provider) and if need be, learning from it?/ppMaybe I live in a different world.. or maybe we should just lock all threads in that forum from now on? People don't read the stickies or the notes up the top, what good is it?/ppProof there is a problem:/ppnbsp;/pullia href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432t=341064start=0st=0sk=tsd=a"How to make joomla very secure ?/a/lilia href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432t=338971start=0st=0sk=tsd=a"User login error linked to security update for 1.5.7/a/lilia href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432t=339986start=0st=0sk=tsd=a"Hacked By X/a/lilia href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432t=340676start=0st=0sk=tsd=a"Hacked - Please be merciful/a/li/ulpnbsp;/pp.. actually.. just read the entire forum. I can't find a single thread on the first page that is not down to one of the 2 issues I posted above. I can't find a single thread there either where the user would not have benefitted from using ultra-hidden-blend-into-the-rest-of-the-forum search box./pp Now it's time I go and find a drink to calm myself down./ppnbsp;/ppPrevious posts of mine:/ppnbsp;/pullia href="http://community.joomla.org/team-blogs/core-team/510-hosting-companies-with-joomla-users-listen-up.html"Hosting Companies with Joomla Users: Listen up!/a a href="http://community.joomla.org/team-blogs/core-team/486-joomla-security-do-you-take-it-seriously-like-we-do.html"/a/lilia href="http://community.joomla.org/team-blogs/core-team/486-joomla-security-do-you-take-it-seriously-like-we-do.html"Joomla! Security, do you take it seriously like we do?/aa href="http://community.joomla.org/team-blogs/core-team/467-hosting-providers-isnt-it-time.html"/a/lilia href="http://community.joomla.org/team-blogs/core-team/467-hosting-providers-isnt-it-time.html"Hosting providers - Isn't it time?/a /li/ulpnbsp;/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4qHmfC1O_Kd-N5twctknyo2AnZg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/4qHmfC1O_Kd-N5twctknyo2AnZg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=RxvamNhi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=ucBFqeuU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=ucBFqeuU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=uwmptMpp"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=uwmptMpp" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=ubfJ1dCf"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=52" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog/~4/C3aY5nd_PSk" height="1" width="1"/

  • Extensions Directory hits 4000!
    pI'm probably stealing someones thunder here but I'd just like to announce that the Joomla! Extensions Directory, or JED, today has reached over 4000 Joomla! extensions. This is a testament not only to the developers of our community who continue to produce new extensions to help you customise your Joomla! site the way you want it but towards the great JED Editors team who work behind the scenes to maintain the system and keep it up and running for the community. So thanks to the JED team for all their hard work and thanks to the developers who help to make Joomla! the great system it is today!/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cjb0MwhohDPMGbleIXFbtWT1RE8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cjb0MwhohDPMGbleIXFbtWT1RE8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=GjRriHZR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=40oYLRxm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=40oYLRxm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=NWfk0Py3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?i=NWfk0Py3" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?a=fUlirjQY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog?d=52" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoomlaCommunityCoreTeamBlog/~4/9Upn5VFiCDg" height="1" width="1"/


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