It’s happened to many of us – we want to edit an article on our Joomla site, but it has a little lock on it. This blog post explains what happened and how can you solve it.

If a article is locked, first be sure nobody else is logged in and working on it. Nothing is more annoying then writing a bunch of changes and pressing save and realizing you have been booted out.

So, if nobody else is working on it you can unlock an article by going into your backend and going to:

Joomla 1.6 and higher = Site->Maintenance->Global Check-in

Joomla 1.5 = Tools->Global check in.

Joomla 1.0.xx = System->Global check in.

This will check in all the locked items. Using the library analogy this means all the articles will go back on the shelves.

You can read more in the Joomla Documentation article “What do the locks mean and how do you get rid of them?”

If you’re using the Cache Cleaner extension from No!Number, you’ll be happy to know that Global Check-In was just added. (If you’re not using this extension, you should really download and install it! Read more about the free Cache Cleaner extension)

Hope all of the above helps you.

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Original article: Help! I am locked out of my Joomla article!

JomSocial, one of the best…maybe THE best community extension for Joomla, is developed by the good folks at Azrul. If you hurry, you can get in on the deal they’re running until Friday 3rd of June.

15 months for the price of 12!

You get an extra 3 months subscription when you purchase JomSocial Standard (US$99) or Pro Edition (US$149). Only valid until Friday (June 3).

For pricing and comparisons, see the JomSocial pricing page.

Not sure if JomSocial is the Joomla community component you need?

Lets make it easy: Are you looking to build an online community? Then you should definitely take JomSocial for a test drive! …and you know what? The JomSocial team offer a US$ 1 trial version – read all about it on the JomSocial pricing page.

Go get social!

Original article: Jomsocial special, only until Friday 3rd of June

The iJoomla team just released 2 new versions of their popular SEO extension for Joomla 1.6, version 2.0.4 and 2.0.5.

Features include:

• manage meta tags
• monitor keywords
• optimize pages
• create automatic links
• create redirects
• and much more… For full list of features, go to the iJoomla SEO extension features page.

iJoomla SEO change log (Joomla 1.6)

Version 2.0.5

• Made some changes regarding correct keywords ranking
• Solved some bugs on internal-links on back-end and front-end

Version 2.0.4

• Fixed: When an article was edited, meta titles were getting deleted

Read more about the iJoomla SEO extension (and how to get your hands on it)!

Original article: SEO extension for Joomla: 2 new versions of iJoomla SEO released

It’s an amazing, open-source, reliable Joomla extension that many Joomla website developers swear by and install on all clients’ sites.If you haven’t used Akeeba Backup before, and you want a reliable, easy to use, open source backup solution for your Joomla! site, try it out.

The developers of Akeeba Backup just released a critical update, so read the announcement and follow the link below:

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Akeeba Backup 3.2.6, the latest version of our acclaimed backup component for Joomla! 1.5 and 1.6 web sites.

IMPORTANT! THIS IS CONSIDERED A CRITICAL UPDATE; ALL USERS ARE REQUESTED TO UPDATE

We discovered that version 3.2.5 had a major bug affecting all post-processing engines (cloud storage, sent to email, upload to remote FTP). More specificaly, if the “Process each archive part immediately” option was not selected, only the last archive part of a multi-part archive would be transferred to the remote location. This caused the uploaded backups to be partial and non-restorable. Please upgrade to 3.2.6 immediately as it addresses this issue.

Source: Akeeba Backup news

Original article: Updated: Akeeba Backup

“…a lot of my members asked me if I could show them how to make templates like I did; therefore by popular demand, I’m organizing a live training webinar wherein I will teach you all you need to know in matter of 3 hours instead of the 3 months it would take you should you have decided to go figure it out yourself.”

Content, time and place

This webinar takes place on March 6 and will have a duration of 3 hours. For full content (and it’s a lot!) of the workshop, click here. Bonus: you also get get the developer version of the Biggie Smalls template (value USD 147).

CLICK HERE to register for this event
(Enter discount code JOOMLAJUNKIE for 30% off!

Original article: Joomla Template Workshop (LIVE)