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Here’s a few extensions for Joomla CMS that we’ve found very useful so we thought’d we’d share them with you.

• jLoginAlert Emails you when someone tries to login to your site.
• Mobile Joomla Reformats your site to fit mobiles
• JoomArt Extensions Manager Centralised management and updating of extensions
• Docman document/download manager with user login, notifications and a big supporting community.
• VirtueMart free ecommerce extension that can also be used as a catalogue.
• ReDJ allows you to create short urls on your site that redirect to actual pages. See www.2020media.com/contact for an example.

Coming soon for Joomla fans is going to be the release of Joomla 1.6. This is actually quite a major update, the current 1.5 release has been going for around 3 years and the release of 1.6 will open up Joomla far more to integrate with other services. This is an approach the Drupal has used very successfully so its a case of Joomla catching up with how the web is developing now.

Using any MySQL admin tool, (PHPMyAdmin), run the following query, entering your own choice of password:

UPDATE jos_users SET password = MD5("new-password") WHERE  jos_users.username = "admin"; 

If you’re using a different username to admin, change as appropriate.

If this doesn’t work, try changing jos_users to mos_users.

Wordpress

If you know your username and the email account in your profile, you can use the “lost password” function -

• Go to your Wordpress Login page (something like http://yoursite.com/wordpress/wp-login.php)
• Click on lost password

If you can’t use this method, here’s how to do it in MySQL.

Using any MySQL admin tool, (PHPMyAdmin), run the following query, entering your own choice of password.

UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass = MD5("new-password") WHERE wp_users.user_login = "admin";

Notes: You must have access to your database. If you don’t, pass these instructions on to someone that does.