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Configuration

Joomla disk space full: find what fills your hosting

Old backups, a full tmp folder, logs, cache and full-size photos fill most Joomla hosting. Find the biggest folders first, then…

10 November 2026 · 6 min read →

Development

Joomla 6 upgrade: check your extensions first

Before upgrading to Joomla 6: switch to PHP 8.3, read the Pre-Update Check, scan unknown extensions for old code, set the…

9 November 2026 · 6 min read →

SEO

Joomla and AI search: llms.txt and AI crawlers

Let GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot in via robots.txt, check your firewall and CDN, keep text in the HTML, then add an…

8 November 2026 · 6 min read →

Content

Joomla article not showing on the site: what to check

Open the article by ID in a private window. A 404 points to status, dates, category or language. If it opens, check the menu item…

7 November 2026 · 4 min read →

Security

Joomla site hacked: what to do in the first hour

Block the site at server level, copy files, database and logs, then find the planted PHP and the way in. Clean up first, change…

6 November 2026 · 5 min read →

Templates

Template styles in Joomla: a different look per page

Duplicate the template style, change logo or colours, then tick menu items on the Menu Assignment tab. Those pages get their own…

5 November 2026 · 5 min read →

SEO

Joomla images and SEO: alt text, lazy loading and LCP

Fill Joomla's alt text field or tick No Description, pick images with the media field so lazy loading works, and load the first…

4 November 2026 · 5 min read →

Content

Article versions in Joomla: restoring what someone overwrote

Joomla saves up to 10 versions of every article. Open Versions in the editor, compare two, restore the right one and then save…

3 November 2026 · 5 min read →

Security

Joomla's Web Services API: what it exposes and how to close what you don't use

Joomla 4+ has a REST API in /api that can read articles, users and configuration. How it is protected, how to test it with curl…

2 November 2026 · 5 min read →

Development

Scheduled Tasks in Joomla: writing your own task plugin instead of a cron script

Write your own Joomla Scheduled Tasks plugin instead of a cron script: a full example, the form and language strings, and why a…

1 November 2026 · 8 min read →

SEO

Open Graph tags in Joomla: why shared links show the wrong picture

Joomla core writes no Open Graph tags, so shared links show the wrong picture. Which tags you need, how to add them with an…

31 October 2026 · 7 min read →

Templates

user.css, user.js and the Web Asset Manager: adding your own CSS and scripts to Joomla

Add your own CSS and JavaScript to Cassiopeia with user.css and user.js, which survive updates, and load other files through the…

30 October 2026 · 6 min read →