Joomla Developer's Tips and Tricks

When building content-heavy websites, whether for podcasters, educators, or corporate clients, managing multimedia has always been a slight headache. Historically, if you wanted an author to upload a video, an audio track, and a downloadable PDF to a single article, they either had to paste messy HTML/iframes into the TinyMCE editor, or you had to install heavy third-party extensions.

For years, website owners have fought a constant battle against form spam. The go-to solution has almost always been Google reCAPTCHA. But let’s be honest: users despise clicking endless grids of traffic lights and crosswalks, and site administrators are increasingly concerned about the GDPR compliance and privacy implications of sending visitor data to third-party tech giants.

Updating Joomla should ideally be a seamless, one-click process. However, during the transition from earlier versions (like Joomla 6.0.x) to Joomla 6.1.0, many administrators are encountering a frustrating roadblock: the database structure fails to update, preventing the core Joomla update from completing.

If you are maintaining or migrating legacy Joomla sites built with SEBLOD, you know that it is a powerful beast. But its strength—complexity—is also its biggest pain point during upgrades.

I recently worked on a major migration project (moving a heavy SEBLOD site to Joomla 4/5) and hit a wall. The file system was updated, but the site was throwing critical database errors on both the backend and frontend.

If you are stuck with "Unknown column" errors during a SEBLOD update, this guide documents the exact fix.

You need to display K2 extra fields in the related items section in the item view, but this is not supported by K2, here is how to do it...

Its a common problem for K2 newbies, when they try to configure K2 to allow users to submit/edit items on the front-end:

When you try to submit/edit items on the front-end I get this message: 403 - You are not authorized to view this resource

To make front-end edit/submit works smoothly, there are some parameters need to be configured properly: