The above is the only logical correct solution but if you are one who likes to use old software or stuck in the'its to hard to upgrade' mindset (mind you I have the slowest, cheapest DSL you can get at home, and it took me 24 seconds to do the 1.5.4 upgrade to 1.5.5
We have found 2 solutions, Please review below to determine best fix method for you. (theirs actually 3 ways to fix this, but one requires you to edit every single article, and if you have over 400 articles like us, thats really not a solution)
Fix #1
If you have this problem, Go into Articles Parameters under Article Manager and select no for Show Titles. They are going to show no matter what. This must be a new bug introduced to 1.5.4 having it selected to show Title will show title twice. Submitting a bug report now
Fix #2
Another solution. Go into Menus, Main Menu, Click on Home,
The Page Title parameter, which is a text field. In this example, the Page Title parameter value contains the legendary "Welcome to the Frontpage" greeting.
And, the Show Page Title parameter, an option field allowing choices of "Yes" or "No."
Select Yes and this problem should go away. Maybe this is a better solution for you. If you use a menu item that does a category list view, the first solution will break all your links as Eric recently pointed out to me.
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July 08, 2008
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Unfortunately, the Google Sandbox now has two levels. Yes, you still need a lot of trust to get your pages ranking. But before you start worrying about that, you need to worry about getting your pages indexed in the first place.
Because, of course, you’re not really indexed if most of your pages have gone supplemental!
What happened? Well apparently the Google Indexer got tired of her
nickname “Loose Louise”, she’s born again and now very choosy thankyouverymuch about who she lets enter. Rumor has it she’s only interested in trusted sites that are after a whitehat, long term commitment.
“What exactly is that supplemental index again?”
I won’t parrot the quasi-official Google answer here. (In fact, I can promise that I will never give you the “official Google answer” on Tropical SEO.) Take your pick:
The Google Supplemental index is the Siberian work camp for web pages.
The Google Supplemental index is to the normal index, as Scoreboard Media is to Tropical SEO.
The Google Supplemental index is where they put web pages with little trust.
The Google Supplemental index is where they put web pages that aren’t going to rank for anything important.
Got it? Cool.
Now, assuming your site is supplemental, here are five tips to get it out of Supplemental Hell.
1. Give each page a unique title. This is so
basic it kills me but sometimes people still aren’t doing it. There is
absolutely no reason not to do this, as a unique title also helps
SEO-wise, it helps accessibility-wise, gets higher clickthroughs in the
SERPs, etc.
2. Give each page a unique META DESCRIPTION. Remember when we all thought META tags were dead? Well, Google’s gotten funny about that. Let’s not waste time wondering why. Just give every page a unique META DESCRIPTION, even if it just matches the title tag.
3. Make sure each page has a good amount of unique content. This problem can rear its ugly head in a few different ways. Most commonly, a particular piece of content is being served at multiple URLs.
This is usually a CMS or shopping cart issue, and the fix will be
unique to whatever system you use. Also pretty common is the existence
of very thin pages (a lot of large, hollow/empty web directories have
this problem). My rule of thumb (and it’s not authoritative, just what
I go by), is that a page should have at least 100 words of unique
content at a minimum.
4. Get some more trusted links. Link building is
all about trust these days. A few links from older, already-ranking
domains will do wonders towards convincing Google a newer site deserves
to be trusted. I also like to get a few higher-PageRank links in there
(sitewide? even better). Yes, I know that tip is going to bring out the
haters (insert “PageRank is dead!” comment here). But it
appears that “overall link weight” seems to matter again in Google, if
not in terms of rankings, at least in terms of indexing.
5. Get some links to internal pages. This is all
about convincing Google your site doesn’t have “hollow shell
syndrome”–when a site has, say, 20 pages, and a few dozen backlinks,
but 100% of those backlinks are pointing to the homepage. Most often,
the homepage of the site is in the normal index but all of the internal
pages have gone supplemental. I usually go “brute force” at one
internal page and get 3 or 4 links to it (giving this one internal page
so much link weight that Google pretty much has to index it);
normally, GoogleBot revisits the entire site and re-crawls and indexes
the other internal pages, too (up to a point: if the site has hundreds
or thousands of pages, you’ll need to rinse+repeat this a few times).
That about covers it. Usually the bottleneck & hardest part is building the trusted links: for help with that, see my link baiting guide.
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People commonly do not understand what sections are vs categories.
Imagine your a Law Office, You have 15 Filing Cabinets you want to keep order so your legal team can find clients files quickly.
Each section is a filing cabinet, each category is a drawer, or lets get a little more orgnized
Each Section is a Drawer and each Category is a Folder in that Drawer, You don't file Roberts Case under M, you put Roberts under R
Now lets take a look at how we do things. Sections named Joomla 1.5 and MyBlog
Inside Joomla 1.5 I have several Categories. The Guide Menu above is Article Blog View for the Section Joomla 1.5 then each of the 3 sub menus are child items Article Blog List View which are linked directly to each categorie
Above image is All Categories My Blog is the only Category outside of Joomla 1.5, It belongs to the Section MyBlog
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Some times the fix for this is to increase the php_value memory_limit from 8MB to
32MB. can be done to put php_value memory_limit 32M in you .htacces
file.
More to come once we have found other issues that cause this
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Installing Joomla 1.5
Set up guide
Minimum System Requirements http://help.joomla.org/content/view/1938/310/
Web & Database Server with PHP installed. Web hosting company or on your Local Computer See Local Web Server section for information.
Joomla 1.5.X Copy of Joomla download a copy at http://www.joomla.org/
A un-zip or un-tar software
Windows http://www.7-zip.org/
Apple http://my.smithmicro.com/win/stuffitexpander/index.html
Web browser
Once you have all software needed you can unzip or untar you Joomla files to your Web directory .
This can be different for a lot of setups. If you are using our local web server examples for starting locations.
Xampp > See Local Web Server Install c:xampphtdocs
MAMP > See Local Web Server Install HD:Applications:MAMP:htdocs:
Unzip or untar inside the directory this should make a folder with the Joomla version that's only one level deep. So if you click inside the Unzip or Untar folder you should see the *.php files and folders etc.
You can rename the folder whatever you like but it needs to be inside htdocs folder for Local example.
You can also put your files in sub folders of the "htdocs" dir an example: c:xampphtdocsclientsnameOfClientjver153 You can then access via the browser with Xammp default configuration http://localhost/clients/nameofclient/jver153/ There you would see the site wizard to install Joomla at first.
It does not matter the system you use as long as it makes sense to you. Try not to use spaces or special characters to your folders names because web browsers convert spaces to "%20%20" in the URL etc.
On a remote server with your web hosting company.
Cpanel: Location would be "/home/yourusername/public_html/" the key here is "/public_html/" if Joomla is going to the main website then unzip or untar Joomla file inside "public_html/". When you open user browser to your http://yourDomainname.com the Joomla installer would show up. If not then you could just make a folder with the name of the section
example: http://yourDomainname.com/MyJoomla
Plesk: Location would be "/home/httpd/vhosts/YourDomain.com/httpdocs/" the key here is "/httpdocs/" if Joomla is going to the main website then unzip or untar Joomla file inside "httpdocs/". When you open user browser to your http://yourDomainname.com the Joomla installer would show up. If not then you could just make a folder with the name of the section example: http://yourDomainname.com/MyJoomla
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Installing Joomla 1.5
Database Setup
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