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Embedding a Facebook feed on a Joomla website (without extensions)
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How to embed a Facebook feed on a Joomla website
Following my earlier article—how to embed a Twitter timeline on a Joomla website—there’s a similar technique to add Facebook feeds to your websites. It’s true that many extensions exist to achieve the desired effect but, before you spend your time (and, in some cases, a lot of money), you may not need to use them at all. This article shows how to embed a Facebook feed on a Joomla website without using any additional software.
The process is as easy as 1-2-3: obtain the URL of the Facebook feed; copy the URL into the Facebook “page plugin” site; copy the generated code into your website It’s really that simple.
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Mythbusters: Do you need to change htaccess.txt?
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You do not need to modify the contents of htaccess.txt
Some people think that it’s important to edit (that is to change the contents of) one, or the other or both of the files htaccess.txt or web.config.txt. That’s a statement of fact. Some people really believe that!
The reason that this issue has recently become a hot discussion topic is because of the advisory notice that shipped as part of J! 3.9.3. The notice says in part,
Since Joomla 3.9.3, Joomla is shipped with additional security hardenings in the default htaccess.txt and web.config.txt files. These hardenings disable the so called MIME-type sniffing feature in webbrowsers. The sniffing leads to specific attack vectors, where scripts in normally harmless file formats (i.e. images) will be executed, leading to Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerabilities.
The security teams recommends to manually apply the necessary changes to existing .htaccess or web.configJ! 3.9.3 announcement, Joomla Forum, 13-Feb-2019
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A wake-up call for people using old versions of Joomla
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Doing nothing about it
It’s unsurprising, really, that technical self-help forums receive a lot of urgent cries for help from people who have old websites built with outdated, unsupported and obsolete software. It’s just human nature to build something and then “hope for the best” that the structure will last, more or less indefinitely, without having to maintain it.
The world of technology isn’t like that.
The technological landscape we knew ten years ago is vastly changed. The iPhone hadn’t been invented. People were still using Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape Navigator 2 (remember them?) and they went to bookshops to buy reference manuals! So, is it really surprising that websites that were built a few years ago are, today, showing their age?
Why is it, then, that the majority of websites are still running on outdated, obsolete and unsupported platforms?
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Returning to Joomla 10 years later
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“They don’t make things like that anymore.”
I was intrigued when I read a question on the Joomla forum today that read, in part:
For those who go back with Joomla a decade ago, are old Joomla extensions—modules, components, plugins or even templates—still compatible with the current version? I know already, from trial and error, I haven’t seen any templates that are which is a shame—I have a lot of them I paid for from various developers. The same goes for many premium extensions I have, so I was curious if it is an issue where it just depends on the extension or if it is a flat out “no”, none of these is compatible with today’s Joomla?a forum user, Joomla Forum, 17-Aug-2018
This article discusses some of these questions.
