Recently I was doing a VirtueMart upgrade from version 2 to the latest version, as well as upgrading Joomla! 2.5 to latest 3.9.* version. With all of the frustrations and pitfalls that come with this process, the one thing just took me so much time to fix. I was getting this: Fatal Error: Class ‘vmLanguage’…
Doing Joomla! upgrades are not always the easiest and quickest things to do. Especially when you have to upgrade for few versions at once. You can encounter different issues, like messed up file systems, missing libraries, corrupted or outdated template overrides, old and abandoned extensions, etc. Recently while doing upgrades I encountered a strange error…
As we showed previously with WordPress, detecting the Joomla! version from its source code is also possible. Although not that straight-forward as WordPress. The best success I had was to use multiple approaches, so if one fails, the code moves to the others. It should be also noted that with some approaches the best you…
Update June 2023: zoom.us discontinued the use of JWT for authorization, and it is completely disabled now. So this method below is not working. Please check the Zoom API reference for valid approaches to registrations. In recent times the ZOOM app became very popular for creating and attending online meetings and webinars. As a…
On a recent project I was working on, I was assigned a task to detect the WordPress version on a bunch of supplied URLs. I did some research, had a better look at the source code that WP produces, and did some testing. I found out that there are three simplest and most reliable ways…
Sometimes, when you’re working on a WordPress project with a tight deadline, you have to come up with quick and easy ways to do certain things. For example, to batch send emails to multiple users, either from a DB or from a CSV file, etc. Instead of going the “right” path by finding some plugin…
Sometimes, you would want to lock the site completely, and allow it only to registered users. Also, you may want to redirect the front-end login requests to a custom WP Page with a custom login form, other than going to the default /wp-login.php page, like below: That can be easily achieved by writing a simple function…
Recently I encountered an error with one of my client’s sites’ WP Mail SMTP plugin setup. We’ve correctly set up the SMTP credentials in the plugin but the mail was never sent. After investigating the server error logs we have found some errors pointing to “wrong instance” of PHPMailer class in one of the other…