Month: October 2017
Stop Joomla Drop Down From Being Fancy
It took couple of hours to find out why Joomla was making my drop down (select tag) fancy and how do I stop it. Within the administration site, each select tag is being replaced by a library called Chosen (https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen) and if there are more than 10 items, it will show search box within drop…
Get Rid of “Want to Save Changes to Book1” in Microsoft Excel
Recently, whenever I open the Excel and close it, it always prompts me to save changes to book1 even though I have not made any changes. This started happening very recently. It is very strange that once the Excel is open and if I create new workbook and close it, it does not prompt me.…
Create Joomla Extension to Show Hello World on Every Page
I wanted to create a simple Joomla 3.x plugin to show HTML on every page including the administration pages. It was extremely difficult to find any sample online as I did not know the what to look for. Here is a very quick tutorial on how to show “Hello World” on each and every Joomla…
Joomla Extension to Type in 23 Indian Languages
Edit: 13 February, 2018 I have created Joomla Extension for typing in 23 Indian languages so you don’t need to manually make a code change. Just download the extension, install it and enable. Download Joomla Indic Typing Extension Today I am going to explore various ways to easily type in 23 Indian languages in your…