A lot of the widgets and things we load on our Joomla sites from other services (YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, ETC) increase page load speed because they are resources coming from servers otehr than our own. Many of these items can be replaced with static images without affecting their intended purpose and function (ie. subscribe buttons.) How to do this simple trick is the topic of this Maintenance Monday live stream!
Have you ever wished you could have all of your Joomla pages precached and waiting for their first visitor instead of being generated by their first visitor? This is possible! How to setup a cron job to precache all of your Joomla pages using Recache (part of JotComponent's JotCache) is the topic of this Maintenance Monday live stream.
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JotCache Component is a great tool to speed up your Joomla site, but the record of expired pages in your database can really become bloated if you aren't manually flushing it when you work on your site. The good news is you can set up a cron job to delete that record of expired pages and decrease the amount of web hosting space your site uses - possibly even speeding up processing in your Joomla database.
How to set-up a cron job (cron.php) to automatically delete the record of expired pages in JotCache Component is the topic of this Maintenance Monday live stream. YouTube does not allow the pasting of code with "angled brackets" so it's not possible to paste the codes shared in the various parts of this video (including during the chat time afterwards.) If you would like a copy of them contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Have you forgotten to update the copyright year on your Joomla site? Don't risk your site looking abandoned and out of date by displaying a copyright year that isn't current. Set it to automatically and always show the current year. How to automatically update the copyright year on your Joomla site is the topic of this Maintenance Monday live stream.
The URLS on your Joomla site should begin with WWW or not - but not a mixture of both. Otherwise you run the risk of both versions of your url being viewed by search engines as separate web pages and duplicate content.
This can affect your Joomla site's SEO. How to enforce WWW urls (or not) on your Joomla site is what is the topic of today's Maintenance Monday live stream.