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Change the login link in MediaWiki
MediaWiki

Change the login link in MediaWiki

As usual I have searched the WWW but I obviously don't how to use Google because I couldn't find an answer. My situation is this: We have an internal wiki knowledge base using MediaWiki version 1.14. Some articles are available for public, some are restricted to staff and different localgroups. When users click on the...

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Frontpage Item Ordering
Joomla

Frontpage Item Ordering

Having trouble ordering your frontpage articles? After re-ordering articles wondering where it was taking the order it puts the articles in the front page (or landing page) was confusing me. The quick answer is that it is within the menu manager > main menu > menu item section of your Joomla! Admin Panel. Certain Advan...

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Language Codes
Joomla

Language Codes

Having started developing multi-language components, it was important that I get a general idea as to what languages are abbreviated to. Usually I only write english files (en-GB) but it's not very international and narrow-minded to think only English speakers will use Joomla! CMS. The below is for reference only:

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K2 Items disappear
Joomla

K2 Items disappear

Basically you've woken up this morning, visited your website, and all your K2 articles are gone !!!! If you login to your Joomla! administration panel (back-end) and look under k2 items, you should get the following error: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/public_html/administrator/components/co...

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Error during processing - Converting Date/Time
Transact-SQL

Error during processing - Converting Date/Time

Well I find myself again the dummie of the Internet. I basically came across this error and STFW'd for ages following complex T-SQL Timestamp conversions but to no avail. Not saying that you shouldn't try their solutions but just check you haven't done this silly mistake. I'm only guessing the same error would happen i...

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Joe's Unduplicater (JUD)
Product Documentation

Joe's Unduplicater (JUD)

If you need to remove files which are simply the converted versions of music or video files, then this tool asks which folder has the files it will keep and which ones it will send to the Recycle Bin. TESTED ON: - Windows XP, Windows 7 SCREENSHOTS: LICENSE: These scripts are offered freely and in good faith. Please do...

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