IT Procurement Scam Elevancehealthus.com

We got an inquiry for procuring equipment for ElevanceHealthUS.com for a Michael Hodgins. When we put the domain in the browser we were directed to a Elevancehealth.com web page. The “US” at the end of the domain was dropped. We did a “whois” search on the domain and discovered the domain without the “US” went to the company in Illinois. This was correct. When we searched the other the domain was registered in Iceland.

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JCH Optimize Can’t Log Into Administrator

While building a Joomla 5 website we wanted to see how the build was performing and ran it through Google’s Page Speed Insights. The site did pretty good, but we added the component JCHOptimize to see if we could get even better. We didn’t get much better so we uninstalled the component for now. Well suddenly we could no longer get into the administrator area.

To fix this we followed the error message link which brings us to this page.

https://docs.joomla.org/J4.x:FatalError

Since we couldn’t reach the Administrator area we needed turn on the debugger and set error reporting to the maximum. We had to go to the CPanel, change the permissions on the config file, and edit the configuration file. Once saved we saw that JCHOptimize had lingering modules in the Administrator half of the website.

Once we deleted these folders we were able to access the backend again.

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Joomla 5 Link Featured To The Article

We were ready to ditch Joomla! when we needed to show “Featured” articles on the home page with intro text and intro image, but then link to the full article. What the default mode is show the article in the same spot as the blurb. This did not work for our layout. This is a “no-brainer” in WordPress, so we were disappointed with Joomla! for not having be easy.

We got is working and it was easy. It did take some “Joomla! Smarts” to figure it out, but as often with Joomla you will need a “hidden” menu. It is hard to link to anything in Joomla if there isn’t a menu item. We do like this because you need content for the page, you need the page, and then you can link to it. Which really does make sense, because there is no point of putting a link to something when there really isn’t content.

Here is what we did:

  • Created two “categories” for the articles called simply “Posts” and “Pages“.
  • The home page link was set to “Featured Articles”.
  • Created a “hidden” menu which is a menu that just resides in the backend just to be able to create the right URL.
  • Made a new menu item and set it to “Category Blog” and the category was “Posts“.

That was it, and the site was working the way we wanted it to.

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