Hi Geoffrey, I think my point was to keep things clean. There are three scenarios. In the the first, we manage a site we developed. In the second, we turn the site over to a client to manage and see it again only when they ask for maintenance. In the third, we are hired to upgrade and maintain a site developed by another company. These are the 3 scenarios I encounter. I spend hours every day working on sites originally developed by others and I wade through a lot of unused stuff.
When I am working on one of my own sites, if I'm not using a component, I uninstall it. I frequently try different components to see how they work on the site and then settle on one for production use. I uninstall the ones I don't use. In the second scenario, I try to give clients a site that contains only the content and components in use. This makes it easier for them to maintain. When I take over a large site originally developed by another company it is always a pleasure to inherit a clean site that I don't have to sift through. This goes for content too. I usually forget to trash the demo weblinks. So if I search for the word "park" on the frontend of a site, I want to see their content and not Baw Baw National Park. I hear a lot of keyboards clicking now ;-) Yes, Joomla upgrading has come a long way! On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM, <joomla-requ...@lists.nyphp.org> wrote: > Send Joomla mailing list submissions to > joomla@lists.nyphp.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > joomla-requ...@lists.nyphp.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > joomla-ow...@lists.nyphp.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Joomla digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Keep your site up to date (Marian Konop) > 2. Re: Keep your site up to date (Geoffrey Schaller) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:04:47 -0400 > From: Marian Konop <mko...@gmail.com> > To: Joomla List <joomla@lists.nyphp.org> > Subject: [joomla] Keep your site up to date > Message-ID: > < > caj4jcsr30yxjq5kls8lrmhu_zq8hfmekr6uodmxzwhb19xn...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > At the last Joomla NYC meeting I spoke about the joomla.org website, and > drifted off to many topics including some good development practices. One > of the things I try to do with my websites is to remove all content and > extensions not in use. > > if you are not using a component - uninstall it. That component could at > some point become a backdoor for hacking even if you are not using it. We > sometimes just ignore things not in use and don't bother to upgrade them. > This can be dangerous. > > Removing content makes it easier for a client to work on the site. How many > times have you tried to save an article/menu/category only to find there is > one trashed with the same alias? Remove things you aren't using. Keep it > clean. > > I was just looking for something on a website. I know it was joomla because > I use wappalyser in firefox. I couldn't find what I was looking for and I > used the search box to find it. Well, the search results included articles > from the Park demo site that comes with the standard installation. Looks > like the developer didn't remove all those demo articles. Doesn't look good > to have "Baw Baw National Park" in your search results. > > > > > -- > *Marian Konop* > Gotham Websites > We think SMALL . . . Business > *www.gothamwebsites.com* > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20130610/c3971ece/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:15:13 -0400 > From: Geoffrey Schaller <gjschal...@psi-13.com> > To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla@lists.nyphp.org> > Subject: Re: [joomla] Keep your site up to date > Message-ID: > <CABr9RmkP_29+vfm3pSk= > 6+nn_0myg-7o9pazuzqkwmqnkpa...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Starting with Joomla 1.7, there is an Update feature, that will check your > installed extensions against their home repository for updates. The JED > will specify which Extensions use this feature - for example: > > http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/downloads/3115 > > Of course, Joomla itself has an updater built into it now, too. > > Both Akeeba Admin Tools and http://manage.myjoomla.com will also help you > keep your site up to date, warning you if it is not, as well as other > security features which are useful for an Admin to utilize. > > -Geoffrey > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20130610/fb1bcf43/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Joomla mailing list > Joomla@lists.nyphp.org > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > End of Joomla Digest, Vol 78, Issue 1 > ************************************* > -- *Marian Konop* Gotham Websites We think SMALL . . . Business *www.gothamwebsites.com*
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