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Archive: December 2019

DIVI CSS Changes Not Showing

19 December 2019
Grimey
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Categories: Divi, Divi, WordPress

While working with a template purchased from DIVICake the home page had 3 blurbs and I needed 4. I copied the modules from the third to a new 4 column and everything looked good. When I exited the page builder the new column and blurb were spaced wrong and other CSS styles were not working correctly.

After suffering some time I looked into DIVI’s caching and this fixed my issue. Here is the path.

DIVI >> Theme Options >> Builder >> Advanced

Turn off “Static CSS Generation” till the site goes live.

I hope this helps someone else out there…

Fabrik Change Required Field Icon

18 December 2019
Grimey
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Categories: Fabrik, Joomla

The default icon for a required field is an eye, and I wanted a red star. It wasn’t hard and this following article got me started.

https://www.chrismendlatech.com/2011/08/changing-the-required-icon-for-fabrik-forms-in-joomla-from-an-envelope-to-a-star/

Start by going into the Element’s properties by going to “Elements” and then double-click on the element you want to add the requirement. This assume you have a validation on element already if not click the Add button to add one. I used the “notempty” plugin. At the bottom you will see a field for “icon”. It pulls from the “/media/com_fabrik/images” folder and I choose one of the .png files that was there, so in the field I just added the text “notempty.png”.

I hope this helps someone else out there.

Remove A Google Analytics Account

9 December 2019
Grimey
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Categories: Uncategorized

I had lost a web account and now needed to clean up the old site; moreover, I wanted to remove the Analytics Account since it wasn’t going to be used anymore. Here are the steps I had to take.

  • Log into your Analytics Account
  • Click on the Admin button
  • Click on the account you want to delete.
  • At the top click on the “Move to Trash” button.

I hope this helps someone else out there…

Joomla 2.5 Site to 3.X Upgrade

6 December 2019
Grimey
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Categories: Uncategorized

The best reason to suffer doing this is to retain the historical data; moreover, keep the page visit counts from the time the 2.5 site was started. I discovered I had to start the conversion with PHP 5.6. I had an old version of XXAMP that allowed me to do this. I tried on PHP 7.X and it didn’t work. I started with a restored Akeeba backup of the old site. I then upgraded the site to 3.X, and worked on the template till the review board okayed the full designs. I restored another version of the current site and moved the JEvents Database tables over to the completed board approved copy.

  • Make an Akeeba backup and download a copy of the original existing site and restore it somewhere. I use XXAMP.
  • Run through the upgrade process. Make sure to upgrade to 2.5.8. Disable the ” System – Backup on update ” plug-in since you can just restore it if you need to. Here are the directions. You will have to migrate to Joomla 3.5.1 first and then upgrade.
  • Disable the “System – Remember Me” plug-in.
  • Go to Joomla Update and hit the “Options” button in the upper right to switch “Joomla Update Configuration” to “Short Term Support” and save and close. You can now update to 3.5.1 automatically.
  • Run the installer. If everything goes well you be up to 3.5.1
  • From there I could upgrade to 3.6.5. You will need to log back in to finish the update.
  • I “Check for update” button and got 3.9.13 update.
  • I turned off the error reporting just to check the site out to view JEvents, and there were no events, so i used “install from the web” to reinstall the component right on top of the existing component and all the events were back.
  • Go into PHPmyAdmin and export the following tables
  • j25_content
  • j25_contentitem_tag_map
  • j25_content_frontpage
  • j25_content_rating
  • j25_content_types
  • j25_jevents_categories
  • j25_jevents_catmap
  • j25_jevents_exception
  • j25_jevents_filtermap
  • j25_jevents_icsfile
  • j25_jevents_repbyday
  • j25_jevents_repetition
  • j25_jevents_rrule
  • j25_jevents_translation
  • j25_jevents_vevdetail
  • j25_jevents_vevent
  • j25_jev_defaults
  • j25_jev_users
  • jos_content
  • jos_content_frontpage
  • jos_content_rating
  • jos_jevents_categories
  • jos_jevents_exception
  • jos_jevents_icsfile
  • jos_jevents_repbyday
  • jos_jevents_repetition
  • jos_jevents_rrule
  • jos_jevents_vevdetail
  • jos_jevents_vevent
  • jos_jev_defaults
  • jos_jev_users
  • Copy over images remembering to skip any images that are already there.

Change DIVI Contact Form Error Message.

4 December 2019
Grimey
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Categories: Divi, WordPress

Have a client that doesn’t want a comma in the standard DIVI error message: “Please, fill the following fields“. It would be nice for Elegant Themes to build this into their widget. I found my answer on the following page, but that page is gone.

I had to go into a actual file to change it. The file is located in “wpcontent >> themes >> divi >> includes >> builder >> framework.php“. It was around line 195. Changed it and uploaded to the site via FTP.

I hope this helps someone else out there….

Is a @maildrop.cc email address okay

2 December 2019
Grimey
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Categories: Uncategorized

Got an email from a customer who got a quote request with an email address ending in “@maildrop.cc“. I used “mailtester.com” to first test the email and it came back as a valid email address. I went to the domain “maildrop.cc” in the browser and saw this is a service.

They give you a temporary email address for just 24 hours. It is used to fill out forms where you don’t trust how they handle your information. I decided to give it try.

  • Just create an email address that uses the “@maildrop.cc”.
  • You will see the “View Inbox” button. Just click on this to see the messages. You are allowed up to 10 messages.
  • It took about 15 minutes for the emails to show up in the “@maildrop.cc” mailbox.

I hope this helps someone else out there…