Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 09 September 2026 Published: 06 October 2026 Last Updated: 06 October 2026

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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Grab a plate — today we're having a robots.txt picnic. No build, no fixing. We're just reading our way through some really good writing on robots.txt, poking at real files, and figuring out what that little text file actually does in 2026. And there's a clock on this one. On September 15th, Cloudflare changes its default bot policy on free plans and new sites — training bots and agent bots get blocked, search crawlers get through. That lands in six days, so this is a good week to know what your own site is telling the robots. On the picnic blanket:

✅ Phil Taylor's mySites.guru guide on Joomla media and template folders — the blocking mistake that hides your CSS from Google
✅ Philip Walton's Joomla Magazine article "The robots have changed, and your robots.txt hasn't" — the best plain-English map of the new bot landscape I've read
✅ The bot roll call — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, PerplexityBot, CCBot, Bytespider, Amazonbot
✅ Search bots vs agent bots vs training bots, and why the difference is the whole ballgame
✅ Cloudflare's new Content-Signal line, plus TDMRep, RSL, AIPREF and Web Bot Auth
✅ Reading the actual robots.txt on cybersalt.com and seeing what's wrong with it
✅ A peek into the Cloudflare settings before the 15th
✅ Wherever else the reading takes us

Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 02 September 2026 Published: 09 September 2026 Last Updated: 09 September 2026

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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Every Joomla site sits on top of a hosting account, and for many of us that means cPanel. Joomla has its own API for content and configuration, but the database, the SSL certificate, the DNS zone, the mailboxes, the .htaccess file, and the cron jobs all live one layer down in cPanel. In this session I work through cPanel's API — UAPI and the WHM API — and show how scripting the hosting side turns a lot of slow, click-through admin work into something you can run from the command line, or hand off to an AI assistant. Here's what I cover:

✅ Reading a Joomla site's own database credentials straight off the server
✅ Creating a database and user and wiring up privileges for a fresh Joomla install
✅ Getting and keeping the SSL padlock green with AutoSSL, and fixing the mail-subdomain false positive
✅ Hardening a Joomla docroot's .htaccess to shut down the scanner noise that hammers your server
✅ Editing the DNS zone and adding mailboxes without ever opening the hosting panel
✅ Setting up the Joomla CLI cron the scriptable way
✅ Generating a scoped cPanel API token so all of the above can be automated safely
✅ The payoff: pairing a cPanel token with a Joomla token so an AI assistant can work both the server and the CMS in one flow

Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 26 August 2026 Published: 06 October 2026 Last Updated: 06 October 2026

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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In this Watch Me Work session I use AI (Claude) to write the documentation for my free Joomla extension — the Cybersalt Override Checker — so I can finish submitting it to the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED). I'm testing how far AI can take the job: writing the docs, capturing screenshots, and helping me plan where extension documentation should live on the Cybersalt site.
The Cybersalt Override Checker is a free, open-source Joomla 5/6 extension that pairs your site with Claude AI to security-review every template override Joomla flags after an update — telling you whether a change is a real risk, a legitimate customization, or just cosmetic noise.

Written by: Shahbaz Latif Created: 19 August 2026 Published: 23 August 2026 Last Updated: 23 August 2026

Parent Category: Joomla Training Cohort Category: Watch Me Work Live Streams

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MCP for Joomla turns your Joomla site into an MCP server, so an AI assistant can read and edit your content, menus, users, templates and SEO directly — no local Node, no Python, no proxy. In this stream I'll show you where it's running out in the wild and everything that landed in the latest v2.5.0 release.
Here's what we'll get into:
✅ The new v2.5.0 Setup Guide — the copy-a-prompt path built for site owners who don't want to touch a config file
✅ The add-on catalog — 4SEO, RSTicketsPro, Template Creator CK, AdAgency, Akeeba and more, installed with one click from inside Joomla
✅ Why it's not just for Claude anymore — Cursor, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf and any standard MCP client all work
✅ How the Pro add-ons work through Cybersalt memberships, while the free core stays free It's already live on 15+ sites — Cybersalt's own brands, a handful of client sites, and even a county .gov — so this is a look at real production use, not a sandbox demo.
This one's for Joomla site owners, freelancers and agencies who want to point an AI assistant at a real site and actually get work done, whichever assistant you already use.
Get MCP for Joomla (free core): https://www.cybersalt.com/extensions/...
Pro add-ons & memberships: https://www.cybersalt.com/membership-...