Joomla

In using Chronoforms version 5 on Joomla version 3.6 you encounter an issue where all emails and forms are being sent as Root User localhost, you may need to check on the following:

Joomla global configuration server e-mail settings

1. Go to mail settings under Global Configuration > Server > Mail Settings
2. Check that the email field has a valid system email address entered, one that will serve as your website system email for all notifications, alerts and mails.
3. Enter also a proper sender name, ex: your company or website name
4. Click on Send Test Mail
5. Ensure you are receiving this test mail before proceeding to Chronoform troubleshooting. If not received, normally your webhosting provider or developer can assist you with fixing this.
   

After upgrading Joomla to version 3.5.1, forms on Chronoform5 became uneditable. Clicking on every form only shows the loading page without rendering the edit mode.

If logging in to your offline Joomla website as Registered users and you encounter the log-in error: "cannot access the private section of this site", you may try the following fixes:

Sometimes you may want or need to change the style and design look of the backend admin template, the look when logged-in administrators see when they are in the /administrator backend area. By default, Joomla loads the Isis and makes available another option, Hathor, administration templates.

Common problem for K2 in Joomla is categorizing a K2 item in multiple categories or more than one category selections. To date, K2 only allows a single selection categorization. There are fixes and solutions which hacks the K2 core files, which is scary and not recommendable as this can break your website, or K2 functionality, and updates will only override these hack changes.

Below are some extensions and plug-ins that works well with K2 for tagging an item to multiple categories.If you have additional finds, please feel free to notify us.

Issue: For some reason, editing from the frontend, the following buttons, Save, Save and Close and Cancel does not work. Clicking on any does not do anything.

UnpublishedCOM_WEBLINKS_1_FILTER_LABEL error appearing on a Weblinks Component page or menu section

Appearing UnpublishedCOM_WEBLINKS_1_FILTER_LABEL on some Helix framework generated templates, Joomla 3, I noticed this error when weblinks filter is enabled on a menu item on a Weblinks component menu type. Example of seen issue on below screenshot:

Joomla version 3, encountering an error message when uploading some very large files via administrator backend:

Error
This file is too large to upload.

You may try any of the options listed below.

Updating the settings within Apache

(if you have access to the root folder of your server, or on local machine using WampServer or XAMPP). Check this page on finding your php.ini file in your webhosting. For local machines using XAMPP or WAMP (just do a simple file search on the application folder)