Written by: Tim Davis Created: 20 May 2019 Published: 21 May 2019 Last Updated: 25 January 2024

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Maintenance Monday

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SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the best option for sending emails from your Joomla install because it gives you the most control for sending according to best practices to ensure email deliverability, that is if your own mail sending is set up correctly (for more on that watch the video at    • Email Deliverability for your Joomla ...  )

Sending via SMTP is also a way to send bulk emails through a different email service if your web host restricts how many emails you can send. How to set up Joomla so it sends using SMTP is the topic of this Maintenance Monday live stream.

Written by: Tim Davis Created: 13 May 2019 Published: 14 May 2019 Last Updated: 25 January 2024

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Maintenance Monday

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If you have Joomla templates installed on your site but are not using them anywhere and anymore, you may have noticed the module positions offered in your module settings have become very crowded, cumbersome and confusing. You can tidy up and declutter this section of your site by unpublishing or uninstalling those unused templates. That way their module positions will not longer show up as available options. How to unpublish or uninstall unused Joomla templates is the topic of this Maintenance Monday live stream.

Written by: Tim Davis Created: 06 May 2019 Published: 07 May 2019 Last Updated: 25 January 2024

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Maintenance Monday

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It used to be that email addresses on Joomla pages needed to be hidden through tricks in order to prevent spammers from farming them. However, for some time now all you need to do now is type an email address on a page and it will be automatically hidden when you save the article. Seeeing how Joomla hides email addresses from email farmers is the topic of this Maintenance Monday live stream! Also, if Joomla's email cloaking is creating script conflicts on your Joomla site, be sure to check out Email Protector from Regular Labs as an excellent alternative!

Written by: Tim Davis Created: 29 April 2019 Published: 30 April 2019 Last Updated: 25 January 2024

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Maintenance Monday

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A lot of the widgets and things we load on our Joomla sites from other services (YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, ETC) increase page load speed because they are resources coming from servers otehr than our own. Many of these items can be replaced with static images without affecting their intended purpose and function (ie. subscribe buttons.) How to do this simple trick is the topic of this Maintenance Monday live stream!