Forgotten password for joomla backend

Open your joomla database with the PhpMyAdmin. Update the table jos_users:
Look for user “admin”, in most cases with the id 62. Edit the password field and type in:
21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3
in Joomla >= 1.0.13 type in:
af9083d4b82dbc0745b124db3b3cf15d:M0WuLowO4rtRTddG

Carrington theme – display comments in reverse order

Unfortunately, the favorite wordpress theme carrington-blog displays the comments in a reverse order. By default, the newes comment is shown at bottom. If you want to display the newest comment on top of list, you have to follow these instructions:
Open the file themes/carrington-blog/comments/comments-default.php

Carrington theme – display page comments

By using the carrington wordpress theme 1.3, you will have some problems to display comments on pages. Comments are working fine on posts, but on pages you will never see a comment although you’ve enabled it.
To solve the problem, just change the following line:

Generate your next web 2.0 project automaticly

You’re going to plan the next web 2.0 project? Don’t invest to much time, I’ve found an online creator that will do this automaticly for you. You can define all your typical web 2.0 specifications. The tool will create a XHTML/CSS layout. You also need some venture capital? – Not a problem, you can also [...]

CyStats getMostVisited widget for sidebar

CyStats is one of the most favorite statistic plugins for wordpress. It’s quite fast and supports several API functions. One of these functions is called getMostVisited, which displays the most popular posts.
In the past, this function must be coded manually inside sidebar.php. I’ve already written an article about line break problems and how to integrate [...]

CyStats getMostVisited() shows unpublished posts

CyStats is one of the most and best statistic plugins for wordpress. I use this plugin in my wordpress blog too.
I noticed that this API function shows unpublished posts in sidebar too, which is mostly not wanted. To avoid this, I’ve changed a little inside the CyStats core.
Open the file: wp-content/plugins/cystats/includes/template-functions.php and do the programming [...]

Free content management without database

A cms without using any kind of sql databases like mysql? … is this technology suggestive? Well, in some cases it could be beneficial.
Why a cms without db could make sense, please feel free to comment some more possible reasons:

very less changes of content
no mysql support in hosting plan
no skills in db administration

Below some screenshots [...]

CyStats getMostVisited() line breaks

CyStats is one of the most popular statistic modules for wordpress. Inside this blog, I’ve also used CyStats and the API function “getMostVisited()” to show most popular posts on sidebar.
To show most popular posts, you need to call the getMostVisited() function in your sidebar.php. If you do so, you will get some trouble with linebreaks, [...]