Embedding YouTube Video in your Wordpress Posts

We are often times asked which plugins we recommend for embedding YouTube video into a post. There are several to choose from, but since YouTube makes it so easy to embed video we prefer to paste the embed code directly from YouTube.com into the Wordpress HTML editor. Let's take a look at the procedure list we use and why we prefer this method over a plugin.

Affiliate Link Cloaker for Joomla!

There's no need to install additional extensions to cloak your affiliate links inside of Joomla!^TM. You can hide your affiliate link URL's without having to modify or write any programming scripts. This approach works for all of your affiliate links regardless of where they derive from. Whether from Clickbank, CJ.com, LinkShare, PepperJam Network, Plimus or Google, the procedure remains the same.

Are your Joomla 1.0 templates useless for your Joomla 1.5 websites?

As the Joomla!^TM core team moves support from the 1.0 platform over to 1.5 you may be asking yourself if all of the work making and customizing your Joomla! 1.0 templates has gone to waste. The answer is... “No”.

Converting to Joomla 1.5 is a thoughtful process, but it only requires a few edits to the way your components and modules are called. Before we begin with the new syntax required to convert your template to Joomla 1.5, take note that the security syntax required to ensure your files are called from within Joomla has been updated also.

Joomla Positions

Well written templates will include several module positions. These positions are set by the template designer via a combination of three files and file types. They are templatedetails.xml, index.php, and usually template.css. The following is an overview of each:

What are Joomla Groups?

When referring to a Joomla!^TM Group, in most cases you're referring to the ACL functionality in Joomla. Access Control Levels allow you to segment the way users interact with content on your website. Joomla 1.5 installs with three default access levels, Public, Registered, and Special.

The Public Group

The public Joomla Group allows for general viewing of your content. By default all new menu items, sections, categories, articles, modules, and plug-ins are set to Public. Anyone visiting your website can view content and information set to public. A little known fact is that if you have content in your database,