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[Marian Konop]

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!


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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> --
> *Marian Konop*
> Gotham Websites
> We think SMALL . . . Business
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> 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:
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> http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/downloads/3115
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> Of course, Joomla itself has an updater built into it now, too.
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> 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.
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