A couple of weeks ago I updated the site to Joomla 2.5.14 and the Kunena forum extension was upgraded to 3.0.1 at the same time. Now it was the right time to go even more responsive with the JA Elastica template. The latest versions were downloaded from Joomlart and the update to version 2.5.3 worked all right, still under Joomla 2.5. This step made sure that the template was compatible with Joomla 3. However, after I pushed the button and upgraded to 3.1.5, the following message was displayed both at the back end and the front end:
Fatal error: Class 'JParameter' not found in /home/myaccount/public_html/mysite/plugins/system/bigshotgoogleanalytics/bigshotgoogleanalytics.php on line 24
All the plugin information resides in the extension table in the database. The system plugin bigshotgoogleanalytics had to be disabled by changing the column `enabled` from 1 to 0 and the site is again online. The Google Analytics tracking code was then added manually before the <head> tag in the file page/default.php in the ja_elastica template.
The error highlights the importance of checking all the extensions for compatibility during version upgrades.
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Joomla is a popular free Open Source content management system (CMS). It has thousands of free and paid extensions in the Joomla Extension Directory and an active support forum. Joomla is available in 64 languages, including Esperanto, as highlighted in the Joomla Community Magazine.
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Joomla 3.0.0 was released on 27 September 2012. It was even easier to install than previous versions on the local workstation, using the Wampserver bundle from https://wampserver.aviatechno.net/. I installed it on my remote server using the installation tool of the hosting provider. Everything went well. I installed reCAPTCHA and read the story about it at http://www.google.com/recaptcha. Taking part in the effort to OCR books is a contribution to the science, similar to the screensaver I was using several PC generations ago when it ran the SETI application. Berkeley University is still running that program.
Then I wanted to see if Joomla 2.5 templates would work on 3.0 and installed one. Big mistake - fatal errors happened both at the front end and the back end. Back to LTS version 2.5.7.
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