Category: GXSA Site Administration

Joomla Extensions We Might Be Interested In Potential extensions that could be of use to GXSA Here is a short list of some extensions that I’ve found that we might use

Author List Extension The Author List extension allows the user to select an author, and see all the articles created by that author. Not sure if we still use this – Need to check.

Uploading images using Easy File Uploader The Image Uploader for the Events subsystem uses Easy File Uploader.

Image Galleries – Which is best ??? We’re currently evaluating several gallery modules for Joomla.  I’ll try to keep a list of the interesting ones here:

Registetred users may upload images about events. Users images are uploaded to the [web_root]/image_uploads/[event name]/[user name] Uplaoded images are not availoable in the Gallery, until they have been approved by an administrator. The administrator must run the “Approve Images” facility, from /gxsa_admin (or click here) TBC Once Approved, images are moved into the folders accessible…

Easy File Uploader We have installed the EasyFileUploader to support upload of multiple fiels to the server (eg. photos).

PlayThru capcha is an inniovative, fun, verision of the Catpcha paradigm. Instead of typing words or numbers, the user must play a small game (eg parking a car) to prove that they are a human being. Having installed it, there are a couple of installation steps that need you to setup your account with the…

Sometimes it is necessary to override the default settings for Joomla generated text. The example in hand is to change the prompt for Username and Password, where we want to prompt for Email Address. We can either edit the configuration text files (dangerous, complicated, and needs access to the data folders, and you need to…

Login using Email Address Users can login using EITHER email address or username. The login prompts are established in …\language\overrides/en-GB.override.ini which must be setup using a text editor (there is no Joomla interface for doing this. This was setup, as follows: We have configured the site to permit users to login using EITHER their registered username,…

Template Configuration for CSS Styles To modify styles available to Authors and Editors of articles, simply make changes to the gxsa_typography.css file, using the Joomla back-end: Extensions->Extension Manager->Templates (on left)->GXSA_Protostar->gxsa_typography.css