Maintenance Monday

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Written by: Tim Davis Created: 02 July 2018 Published: 03 July 2018 Last Updated: 24 January 2024

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Maintenance Monday

Streamed live on Jul 3, 2018 Joomla Security

Since #Joomla 3.8.8, the setting for the core "Mail To Friend" sharing tool has been set to "Hide" in new Joomla installs. While still performing its function, it could easily be used by spammers to send out unwanted emails. You can still use this tool on your site, but in a day of multitudinous social media platforms, sharing by page addresses by email is well off trend and not very effective anyway. How to set the core "Mail To Friend" sharing tool to "Hide" is what today's #maintenancemonday is all about.

Written by: Tim Davis Created: 25 June 2018 Published: 26 June 2018 Last Updated: 24 January 2024

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Maintenance Monday

Streamed live on Jun 26, 2018 Joomla Security

Since #Joomla 3.8.8, uploading flash files (swf files) and allowing the "flash" (application/x-shockwave-flash) mime type for uploading have been removed from the default settings of new Joomla installs. Allowing these 2 things is a security concern if there is not first a proper review of their contents and programming. How to remove flash file extensions and mime type from the allowed methods of uploading is what today's #maintenancemonday is all about.

Written by: Tim Davis Created: 18 June 2018 Published: 19 June 2018 Last Updated: 24 January 2024

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Maintenance Monday

Jun 19, 2018 Joomla Security

Since #Joomla 3.8.8, the “Send Password” option in the User Manager will no longer be enabled by default on new Joomla installs. Up until Joomla 3.8.8, this setting in the "on" position would include a plain text display of a new user's password in the registration email received after creating a new account.

If your site was created with Joomla version 3.8.7 or prior, and you have not set this setting to "no" you should consider doing so. How to change the "Send Password" setting to "no" is what today's #maintenancemonday is all about.

Written by: Tim Davis Created: 11 June 2018 Published: 12 June 2018 Last Updated: 24 January 2024

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Maintenance Monday

Streamed live on Jun 11, 2018 Joomla Security

Unfortunately, there are some sites out there offering pirated pro versions of Joomla extensions. Why stealing pro versions of Joomla extensions is bad for you and the Joomla community is what today's #maintenancemonday is all about.

Written by: Tim Davis Created: 11 June 2018 Published: 12 June 2018 Last Updated: 24 January 2024

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Maintenance Monday

Streamed live on Jun 12, 2018 Joomla Security

Since #Joomla 3.8.8, the default text filter type for the Access Control List (ACL) group "Administrator" has been "Default Blacklist." If your site was created with Joomla version 3.8.7 or prior, and you do not have any "Administrator Group" users that you wish to have full access to type or paste anything in an article or editor instance anywhere else, you should change the filter type to this new default setting. How to change the "Administrator" group filter type to "Default Blacklist" is what today's #maintenancemonday is all about.