Uploading Images in VirtueMart When creating a product in VirtueMart, you're able to upload images from your computer (versus choosing from the image library on the server / on your website). Sometimes, you may run into problems with the upload. You could get a blank screen or an error on the page. Before you upload […]
VirtueMart has the option of storing credit card numbers or not. It is best to have this setting turned off and we will only turn this on if requested (if credit cards are processed offline, then you need this turned on). If it is on, then the information stored is encrypted and can only be […]
When creating a product in VirtueMart, you're able to upload images from your computer (versus choosing from the image library on the server / on your website). Sometimes, you may run into problems with the upload. You could get a blank screen or an error on the page. Before you upload images, you should be […]
Set up the Poll / Voting Survey Set up a poll by going to: Components > Polls Click "New" at the top right and fill in the title and options. You can ignore "alias" as the will automatically be filled in. Click "Save" when you are done. Activate the Module Now you should activate the […]
Change the VirtueMart Email Account Sometimes you want to change which email account receives the order emails in VirtueMart. You can change this yourself. It's sometimes not easy to know where to do it though. Here are some instructions for updating the store admin email address (Joomla 1.5.x Version of VirtueMart - for others, see […]
One big feature that's missing with Joomla is an archive of previous versions of pages. WordPress has this feature but it's not glamorous - it could be much better but at least it's there. If you do want to have a backup of pages in Joomla, you can do it in the form of a […]
Joomla, by default, tries to cloak email address that it finds in content so that spambots searching websites to harvest email addresses can't find them (side note: Joomla also turns any email addresses it finds into email links). There are some instances when you might want this turned off. To turn email cloaking off, just […]
If you are trying to work on a page on your Joomla website and it's saying that it's locked by another user, then you will have to first unlock it before you can work on it. This happened because someone else is actually working on the page or else they closed their browser without first […]
