How to Add Facebook Comments in Joomla

Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 December 2012 07:37 Written by Milton Parada Thursday, 6 December 2012 12:00

In this article, I will give you a step by step on how to add Facebook comments on your Joomla blog.

1. First, Download  the Social Comments extension to use:
2. After downloading, install the plugin, click on “Extensions -> Extension Manager”:

How to Hide the Menu for Non-Members in SocialEngine 4

Last Updated on Tuesday, 4 December 2012 03:16 Written by Andrew Cross Wednesday, 5 December 2012 12:00

Would you like to hide the main menu for non-members? If so, instead of hiding just a few things from non-members through the settings of each plugin, it’s better to just hide all! This way, non-members can only access portal page if set-up correctly. You can use this trick to do so:

Find: /application/modules/Core/widgets/menu-main/

Edit File: Controller.php

Find the following code:

How to Enable HTTPS on SocialEngine 4

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 November 2012 08:28 Written by Andrew Cross Saturday, 1 December 2012 12:00

The best way to make your SocialEngine network more secure is to enable HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) once you have bought your SSL Cert and activated it via your cPanel edit your .htaccess

Alter your .htaccess file to force SSL by adding these lines below this line ‘RewriteBase /’:

SocialEngine 4 Permissions

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 November 2012 07:45 Written by Andrew Cross Thursday, 29 November 2012 12:00

One of the biggest problems that occur with SocialEngine is due to the fact that the file permissions are correct always make sure you check your permissions every few weeks. You can do this via your admin panel:

Also if you rather use an FTP Client to set permissions,

SocialEngine: Incorrect Configuration

Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 November 2012 10:04 Written by Andrew Cross Tuesday, 27 November 2012 12:00

SocialEngine: Incorrect Configuration

Many SocialEngine users have this issue during upgrade or in package manager.

Your session configuration is incorrect and could not be automatically corrected. Please set session.save_handler=files and session.save_path=/tmp (or your temporary directory on non-Linux OSes.