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The JoomlaMailer Signup Plugin The JoomlaMailer plugin allows core Joomla! features and third-party extensions (Community Builder and JomSocial) to automatically subscribe users to one of your MailChimp lists. In other words, when a new user registers at your Joomla! website, the user will be automatically subscribed to the selected list. This plugin does not need to be enabled for proper function of JoomlaMailer. To enable the plugin, navigate to Extensions - gt; Plugin Manager, then click System - joomlamailer MailChimp Signup. Select Yes next to Enabled to enable the plugin. In the Newslet...
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Creating a Subscriber List Before you can use JoomlaMailer to its full potential, you will need to create a subscriber list. At the time of this writing, it is not possible to create lists using JoomlaMailer; therefore, you will need to create lists through MailChimp. Click the Lists link in your MailChimp dashboard. Since this tutorial will show you how to create the list, there is no need to watch the video unless you really want to. Click the Create Your First List link. Enter in the required information. Choose a descriptive list name--one which accurately describes the specific use for ...
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While Joomla! provides enough basic features to run a small website, its robust extension support can be used to develop complex websites capable of serving content to tens of thousands of visitors. When websites become this large, staying in touch with the user base can become a daunting task. One of the best methods for keeping in touch with visitors is through the use of email marketing, or in other words, newsletters. By allowing your users to register and subscribe to your newsletter, you can accomplish several things: You can drive traffic to your website by inviting recipients to read ...
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Jetpack by WordPress.com Think of Jetpack as a supercharged plugin packed with various features to truly help you maximize your site's potential. While many plugins may offer one simple, yet important piece of functionality, Jetpack offers a ton of them. As for the plugin's social media perks, there's a Twitter Widget that displays a users latest updates. The Gravatar Hovercards feature adds small popups in the comments section that give a sneak peek into user Gravatar profiles. Easier sharing is enabled through WP.me Shortlinks. Want to implement embedding functionality? Jetpack will do...
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If your website uses weak passwords, your SSH server can easily be hacked using brute force techniques. Almost all paid hosting accounts in the most common web hosting companies do include the SSH feature. But the default SSH activation is not enough; it is still susceptible to brute force hacking attacks. An SSH server (such as your hosting account) can be accessed in two ways: using password authentication, and using public key authentication. Password authentication is the most common method of accessing an SSH server. It requires users to enter the SSH username, password, hostname and SSH ...
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Patch Options The patch program has a number of options. (You can refer to the patch man page for more details.) However, in practice, the only option that matters much is the -p argument, which is used to align the absolute paths used in the patch #64257;le with the local directory structure containing the sources that the patch is being applied to. When you run cvs diff to create a patch #64257;le, it is best to do it from within the source tree, at the highest level in the directory hierarchy necessary to include all the #64257;les that have changes. The resulting patch #64257;le will,...
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Setting Up and Using CVS For those of you who are interested, I describe the steps it takes to set up a CVS server on a Red Hat-based system. The steps I provide here are almost certainly going to be the same when executed on non-Red Hat systems, and may differ in certain ways on other UNIX-based systems, including Mac OS X. The work involved in getting a CVS server up and running is not terribly dif #64257;cult, and can be done in a relatively short amount of time. You will need root access to the system upon which you are installing the server, and it will help to have a second system with ...
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Item 12: Set Up a Tinderbox Tinderbox is a tool that was developed initially at Netscape, but that is now open source software maintained by the Mozilla project. Tinderbox is designed to manage the complexity one encounters when developing software, especially in terms of large-scale cross-platform software that involves a widely distributed team of developers. Tinderbox is particularly useful in cross-platform projects, as you will see. Coupled with a system known as bonsai, the goals of Tinderbox are fairly simple: Communicate any and all changes made over time to the source code repositor...
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A software con #64257;guration management (SCM) system consists of tools and processes used to manage the source code of a project and to assess its state. With these tools, management and developers can do the following: Peruse the source code managed by the SCM system Obtain a local copy of the source code Submit modi #64257;cations made to the source code by developers Understand which changes have been made to the source code b y developers Determine the state of the source code (for example, whether it compiles) Log and track defects associated with binaries created ...
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