Blog entries http://www.metamodpro.com Tue, 21 May 2013 13:06:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/a-b-testing-for-joomla.html <p>Online entrepreneurs who are observing a sharp decline in their sales may need to re-structure their site to make it conducive both to traffic and conversion rates. But no matter how easy as it sounds, revamping a website can be daunting especially when webmasters are running low on creative juices.</p><br/><p>This is where A/B Testing becomes their saving grace.</p><br/><p><img src="http://www.metamodpro.com/images/stories/blog/traffic.png" width="384" height="202" alt="traffic" style="vertical-al... Stephen Brandon Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:06:35 +0100 guest blog abtesting http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/automatically-switch-language-in-joomla-25.html <p><img style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px;" src="http://www.metamodpro.com/images/stories/blog/cham-160.png" alt="cham-160" width="160" height="100" /></p><br/><p>I've often been asked if it's possible to automatically switch languages in Joomla 2.5.</p><br/><p>Why might you want to do this?</p><br/><br/>to correlate languages and templates, so that forcing a certain template also forces a certain language<br/>to correlate languages and domains, so th... Stephen Brandon Sun, 13 May 2012 14:37:38 +0100 http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/metamod-26-released.html <p><img style="float: right; margin:0 0 5px 5px;" src="http://www.metamodpro.com/images/stories/logos/metamod-small.png" alt="MetaMod logo" /></p><br/><p>The latest version of MetaMod (v2.6) for Joomla was released today, 29 November 2010.</p><br/><p>All the changes are in the included JomGenius support. There are a few bugfixes and a few new features. The official release notes can be found here.</p><br/><p>There are a couple of notable new features, in VirtueMart support:</p><br/><br/><p>1 - You can now check for... Stephen Brandon Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:37:38 +0100 releases metamod http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/web-professionals-global-christian-mission-needs-you.html <p><img style="float: right; margin-left: 8px;" src="http://www.metamodpro.com/images/stories/blog/clipper-hurricane.jpg" alt="Clipper: Hurricane, 1853" width="300" height="207" /></p><br/><p>How Christian missions have changed. When Hudson Taylor sailed from England to China on his first missions journey in September 1853, it took over 5 months to make the trip to Shanghai &ndash; the fastest clippers and their cargo (including mail) could reduce that to just 4 months at best.</p><br/><p>Today, a messa... Stephen Brandon Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:01:10 +0100 http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/metamod-pro-26-released.html <p>A compatibility release of MetaMod Pro was released today, 15 November 2010.</p><br/><p>All MetaMod Pro customers are recommended to go to their My Account page on MetaModPro.com, view their completed order, and download the new version.</p><br/><br/><p>This release simply adds compatibility with JoomlArt&rsquo;s T3v2 template framework. Previous to this release, both MetaMod Pro and the T3v2 framework both independently tried to override a core Joomla file in order to provide additional functionality.</... Stephen Brandon Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:01:03 +0100 releases MMP metamod pro AMM http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/php-profiling-as-a-debugging-tool-for-joomla.html <p><img style="float: right; margin: 0 0 8px 8px;" src="http://www.metamodpro.com/images/stories/blog/php200.png" alt="PHP logo" width="200" height="105" />Over the last couple of days I have been doing final testing on an update to MetaMod Pro, introducing compatibility with JoomlArt&rsquo;s wonderful T3v2 template framework. Something I noticed was that pages were taking 5-10 seconds longer to load in the T3v2 template than they were with any of the other templates I have installed.</p><br/><p>If ... Stephen Brandon Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:40:42 +0100 PHP development http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/php-setting-for-outputhandler-obgzhandler-breaks-joomla.html <p><img style="float: right; margin: 0 0 8px 8px;" src="http://www.metamodpro.com/images/stories/blog/php200.png" alt="PHP logo" width="200" height="105" />A couple of days ago, out of the blue people started complaining that they couldn&rsquo;t download updates of MetaMod Pro and MetaTemplate Pro from this site. After quite a lot of searching I found that the hosting company has added a new PHP default parameter to the server, which was breaking lots of things...</p><br/><br/>output_handler = ob_gzhand... Stephen Brandon Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:53:25 +0100 PHP hosting http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/metatemplate-and-metatemplate-pro-v1-7-released.html <p>A great update today &mdash; finally MetaTemplate is starting to crack the thorny problem of how to manipulate which menu items show in the menus at any given time...</p><br/><br/><p>In v1.7 you can now selectively un-publish/disable menu items from any menu, as a result of a MetaTemplate rule succeeding or failing.</p><br/><p>Here&rsquo;s what the SUCCEED action form looks like now:</p><br/><p><img src="http://www.metamodpro.com/images/stories/mtp-screenshots2/09-succeed-actions.png" alt="" /></p><br/><p>When c... Stephen Brandon Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:01:33 +0100 releases metatemplate http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/metamod-metamod-pro-metatemplate-and-metatemplate-pro-updates-released.html <p>Four updates in one day!</p><br/><br/>MetaMod v2.5<br/>MetaMod Pro v2.5<br/>MetaTemplate v1.6<br/>MetaTemplate Pro v1.6<br/><br/><p>MetaMod Pro and MetaTemplate Pro customers:&nbsp;download your FREE upgrade! Go to your&nbsp;My Account page, view your order, and download the new version.</p><br/><br/><p>Apart from a few bug fixes (e.g. MetaMod Pro fixes compatibility with Advanced Module Manager), most of the excitement in these releases is down to one thing: VirtueMart.</p><br/><p>There are more detailed release notes for MetaMod,... Stephen Brandon Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:30:56 +0100 releases MMP metatemplate metamod pro metamod AMM http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/metamod-pro-2-3-released.html <p>A bug-fix release of MetaMod Pro was released today.</p><br/><p>This release fixes a bug introduced in MetaMod Pro 2.2, which caused duplicate and unpublished modules to appear on any page that did not have an&nbsp;associated &ldquo;Itemid&rdquo;.</p><br/><p>All MetaMod Pro customers are recommended to go to their My Account page on MetaModPro.com, view their completed order, and download the new version.</p><br/><p>Anyone using Advanced Module Manager in conjunction with MetaMod Pro should also upgrade ... Stephen Brandon Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:46:40 +0100 releases metamod pro http://www.metamodpro.com/blog/metamod-pro-and-advanced-module-manager-now-compatible.html Thursday 8 April 2010<br/><p>Stephen Brandon and Peter van Westen are pleased to announce new versions of MetaMod Pro (MMP) and Advanced Module Manager (AMM) which can now be used simultaneously to afford complete module control on Joomla! sites.</p><br/><p>MMP and AMM both allow Joomla! administrators to assign modules with much more versatility than standard Joomla! allows. AMM provides a superb user interface to many common scenarios, while MetaMod and MetaMod Pro provide unparalleled flexibility i... Stephen Brandon Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:23:15 +0100 releases press release MMP metamod pro metamod AMM