A website represents your business identity and hold the prestige of your brand. You invest your most of the time and hard labor to make your website trendy, slick and user friendly. But when a visitor clicks on a link, and if it directs him to a page or files that is deleted or no longer existed, you might not reach to the goal that you deserve. So, it's harmful for your business. Even it could be reason of losing a handful of customers and slow down your whopping conversion rate.Generally, most of the website contains broken links. But don’t worry, it’s avoidable. You might be thinking how to avoid it, right? Before heading to the solution, you have to find out the reason why the broken links occurs. There are numerous reasons that could occur this troublesome. Here are some.- The website owner changed the post or page alias (Probably to improve SEO).- The website is restructured: resulting in page having a different URL.- The website is transferred to a new domain and owner forget or did setup a redirect.- The website may go offline owing to hacking, a firewall, limited bandwidth, or the website owner not paying their hosting bill.- The website owner has removed the page or post- Website no longer exists- External website that have gone offline.- Misspelling in the linkA common technical errors are noticed to forget to include https:// or https:// at the beginning of a link. When you make this mistake, the browser assumes that you are trying to link to a location that is relative to your current location. For example, If you incorrectly linked to PSDHub website from this article instead of https://www.psdhub.com the URL would be published as a https://themexpert.com/blog/www.psdhub.com## Are broken links harmful for SEO ?An important aspect of Search Engine Optimization is making your website easy for both users and search engine robots to understand. Majority of SEO experts say that fixing broken links, missing images, and 404 page errors, will improve your overall search engine ranking. But Google states on their website that 404 errors will not impact a website’s ranking.Even though Google has confirmed that 404 errors will not hurt a website’s rankings, they do encourage all website owners to fix links on their website for a better user experience. So, when someone lands on your website and finds something unexpected, it really impacts on visitor's first impression in the long run.We've in-depth guide about Joomla SEO and how to improve yoru SERP ranking. Go check it out.##How to find 404 and broken links ?Now we know the reasons behind the broken links and how important to fix it. They are numerous Joomla broken link checker software and services available that will can scan your website and report broken links to you. Let’s have a look on Joomla broken link checker software’s around the web.###Google Webmaster Tools (FREE)Google Webmaster Tools is a FREE web service by Google for webmasters, analyzes your website from the perspective of the Google search engine rather that visitor activity that occurs directly on your site. It not only provides critical information that can help you drive more traffic to the correct pages on your site, but also help to find out 404 errors and broken links. You will find 404 errors and broken link information on the Crawl Error page; which is located in the Crawl section of the main menu.To find the errors and broken links, add your website the Google Webmaster tool and verify your website ownership from from the recommended or alternative method.The below page displays site errors and URL errors for desktops, smartphones, and feature phones. URL errors are categorized, with server errors, soft 404 errors, and normal 404 errors (not found), all being presented separately.The not found page lists all of your 404 errors. Scroll a bit down to get into the list and check individual error. Some errors will point to pages that you have removed from your website, however others will be genuine broken links that should to be fixed.To bring up details about the broken link, click on the url from the list. It will popup a modal window with the full URL of the broken link and the first time the error was detected with first and last browser crawling date.If you want to know the linked source, click on the “Linked From” next to the “Error Details” tab, will help you to see exactly where the broken link was found.###Joomla Redirect ManagerThe Redirect Manager is a component, accessible from the Joomla back-end of. It was introduced in Joomla! 1.6 and its main function is to provide a mechanism to give an administrative ability to redirect the URL of a web page which no longer exists to a working web page.To Head into the Joomla Redirect Manager, Select Components → Redirect from the drop-down menu of the Joomla! Administrator Panel. Here in this panel you will find the list of enabled, disable, archived and trashed 404 as well as broken links. Even your search for specific link your assumed to be broken.[ Note: Make sure you have enabled an extension System - Redirect from plugin manager which remain by default disabled, otherwise Joomla Redirect Manager will not come into function]###Link Valet (FREE)Link Valet is a WWW Link checker. When you enter the URL of an HTML page on the Web, it will scan your whole website, and print a report of broken links in various colors. But Link Valet is not an easy way to see all broken links together at a glance.##How to fix broken Links ?When you have done with the listing of broken links of your website, you can move forward to repair and redirect them. Now you can do one of the following to fix your broken links on your website.- Correct the link with redirect manager: The easiest way to fix the broken links of joomla powered websites, is from the Joomla Redirect Manager. Just head over redirect manager, click on broken link from the list. It will take you to the Edit Link panel. Set destination in the Destination URL input box, tunt the status into enable if it is disable and click save and close. - Correct the Link: If you missed to link a website incorrectly, The only thing you have to do is edit the URL and replace it with the correct value. For example, one of the most common reasons a link becomes broken is because the author forgot to put https:// at the beginning.- Unlink the Link: Suppose you linked to a page that is no longer exists, or no longer relevant or available, you may want to completely remove the link from the article.- Mark as Fixed in Google Webmaster Tool: The idea of Mark as Fixed in Google Webmaster Tool is just to allow webmasters to clean up their previous report when you have fixed errors. Eventually Google will get informed that the broken links have been fixed.##Conclusion :You invest your time and money to make your website full of contents. But if they go beyond the visitors access, you might lose your visitors as well as reputation. So, be careful with it. They are numerous way to find broken links on your website.I have shared my preference with Google Webmaster Tool and Joomla Redirect manager. If you follow another method to fix your broken URL feel free to share in the comments.

Translating your website into several languages will increase your audience notably.Adding the multilingual functionality to your Joomla site is just a few instinctive steps away. Let me do it even easier for you.This tutorial is going to show you how to configure a multi-language Joomla site. To perform this you need to go through the following steps:1. Install a new language2. Create a new content language with new parameters3. Enable Language Filter plugin4. Setting up Language Switcher module5. Create menu for every installed language6. Create menu module7. Multilingual articles## Step 1: Install a new languageAt first, let's add the language files for the desired language we want to use as the second language on our site.So, log in to your Joomla admin panel. Now, to install the language pack you need to navigate to Extensions -> Languages.In the screen that opens, select "Install Languages".Another screen will be opened, tick on your desired language pack and click "Install” button.You will see your installed language packs in Extensions -> Languages -> Installed.## Step 2: Make a new content language with new parametersThe next step is to originate a content language.Although you have already installed a second language, still you need to add the appropriate information for this languages.In this step, you need to navigate to Extensions -> Languages -> Content Languages.You will see here, the default content language, to add a new content language click the "New" button from the top menu.A new screen will open, insert the required information according to the selected language.Look at the image below. There are five required fields.Title: This fields for language name that will display in the Joomla backend that you can assign a specific language for your articles, modules or other items.Title Native: Here you insert the original language name which will display in the language manager and the list of content languages.Language Tag: The language tag consists of the language code. If you are not sure about it, you can find it next to the language name in the list of installed languages at the language manager section.URL Language Code: This is the code that will appear in the URL. For example, here I insert "de" hence, the URL will like this when I select Germany as the desired language. www.example.com/index.php/de/Image Prefix: This is the language code. Joomla uses this code to display the country flag images enabling the visitors to select a site language.## Step 3: Enable Language Filter pluginThe language filter plugin enables the CMS to recognize the different installed languages and display only the content relevant to the current language.Just navigate to Extensions -> Plugins and search for the “Language Filter” Plugin and enable it.Also, enable the "Language Code" plugin. This plugin installed with the Joomla engine by default.## Step 4: Setting up Language Switcher moduleYou will also have to add a menu module to display the language list on your site.Navigate to Extensions -> Modules, a new window will open. Click “New” and select “Language Switcher” from the list.It will open an editing window.Insert the title as it is required, though you have an option on hand to display the title or hide.Set the position where the switcher module will visible and set the switcher status as public.Look at the image below. A language switcher section is visible on the right sidebar.## Step 5: Create menu for every installed languageYou will need to create menus for each content language to display multilingual content on your site.To perform so navigate to Menus -> Manage -> Add new Menu.After that insert the "Title" and "Menu Type" and hit the save button.Do the same process for every content language that you wish to display on your site.You will find all your created menus in Menus -> Manage later and also edit them.So now you need to add items in each menu, the easiest way to perform is to open your main menu then select any item and then hit the "Batch" button top of the page.In this process, we are going to copy all the menu items from the main menu to each menu.A popup will open, you need to set the language to which you are going to copy the item and select the menu to where you want to copy this.Check copy from radio button and press "Process". Once it was done, do that for each one.Now you have a menu for every language and several items on it.You can open each menu one by one, make an item to default page and edit them. ## Step 6: Create menu moduleJust navigate Extensions -> Modules then select a menu from the list.In the module section, set position for selected menu.In advanced section, insert "nav-pills" in the menu class suffix field.And then in menu assignment section, select "Only on the pages selected" option.It will display only the items which you want to show in your menubar.So, uncheck the other languages menu items.## Step 7: Multilingual articlesLet's create a multilingual article to see how it works.Create a new post, set the language of the post in the content section.Make a copy of this post or make more copy as you want. Set different languages for each post.And now again edit the post, go the "Associations" section, associate the post with the copy of this post.Save and close it.As a result, when you click a flag it will change both the menu and the articles to the desired language.Look at the image below, how I associate the posts to each other.So, we are at the finishing stage. Just take a look how it works.# Make this process easier with an extension:In the first section, I talk about the manual process.Now here, in the second section, I'll show you how to create a multilingual website using an extension.In our previous article we discussed about Neno translation extension for joomla and today I am going to use the another popular extensions JA Multilingual Component.It's free Joomla multi-language translation extension.This extension is light in weight but robust at speed. To boost up your multilingual website, it will do almost everything what you need.Let's see how it works through the following steps:1. Download JA Multilingual Component2. Component Installation3. Translate Language## Step 1: Download JA Multilingual ComponentAt the beginning stage, you need to download JA Multilingual Component from their official site.It is free of cost. To download this extension, you need to create an account on their site because they don't admit to providing their service to non-users.## Step 2: Component InstallationNavigate Extensions -> Manage -> Install.In the new window that opened, you will see a file upload option.Just point to your download file and hit Upload & Install button. After a few seconds, the extension will successfully install.## Step 3: Translate LanguageNavigate Components -> JA Multilingual.Here you see a notification that asks to configures authenticate API (Application Programming Interface) to translate the site.Just press the Options from the top. Insert the API key and save and close the current window.You can install languages as you want and then press Translate All to do all tasks immediately. Wait a few moments until it is done.Take a look how it works.### Final WordsHope you enjoyed this tutorial, and now you can create a multilingual site using Joomla. Let us know about your further query and share your opinion.

More popularity your Joomla website gains, more security concern you'll be. Hackers or bad guys are always searching one way or others to hack your website and use it for their purpose. Mostly for DDoS attack using your host/network.Joomla! as a CMS is very powerful and secure, but often times we made it vulnerable by ourselves. Besides the popularity, more and more individuals and businesses of all sizes start to rely on this open source CMS and get their products and services through the online.In fact, more than 2.5 percent of websites are now running on a Joomla CMS. The latest research by SUCURI reveals that - Joomla is the second largest CMS downloaded over 68 million times and the second infected website platform.The bad guys or hackers may try all kinds of hacking methods to attack your site or bring down your site. These range from remote file inclusion to cross-site scripting to the ever-popular SQL injection.As the admin, you have the responsibility to ensuring your Joomla site is properly patched, updated and secure.A properly configured instance of Joomla CMS on a properly configured server is about as secure as any other off-the-shelf solution.In today's post, I am going to discuss the best practices to secure a Joomla website. Let's dig into it!## Best Practices to Secure Your Joomla Website### Use the Latest Version of Joomla & ExtensionsWebsite owners don’t upgrade or maybe forget to upgrade to the latest version in most of the times, which creates a significant risk.Almost in every release, Joomla has fixed some security issues. So if you don't upgrade to the latest version means you are keeping some vulnerability on your website.### Use Strong Password for Secure Administrator LoginIn most cases, people leave the default administrator account as the user name to “admin” and a silly password which is easily guessable and creates the biggest risk.If you are keeping the default “admin” and a guessable password, you subconsciously helping the hacker in their job.### Delete Unwanted & Unsecured ExtensionsJoomla is open source CMS and as an administrator, you may install many modules or extensions to try out new functionality in your site.It’s good to improve the functionality, but the bad thing is when you install a low-quality extension that will create flaws in your site.So, delete the extensions, which you are not going to use.### Take Backup RegularlyBackup is the life-saving process. In case of, when things go wrong, backup is probably one of the quickest and best way to restore your online business operations.You should host your website in a reliable hosting company like SiteGround, who provides a good backup plan. Along with hosting backup, you may use an extension like Akeeba backup.### Monitor your Joomla SiteIf your website goes down or defaced then how do you know?Use the StatusCake tool which monitors your website and notifies you through the email, slack or SMS when if website is not reachable.This is a free tool and you can take necessary actions immediately if needed.### Use a Powerful Security ExtensionsUse a powerful extension that can fight against spam, known vulnerabilities, and known attacks like brute force attack, SQL Injections.There are many and security extensions available for Joomla in the Joomla extensions directory. Amongst them, R Antispam, Incapsula, and Security Check are best and effective ones. You may use one from these.### Implement Two-Factor AuthenticationTwo-Factor Authentication is an extra security layer that requires not only a username and password from the user but also require something that only, and only, that user has on them.It will be a piece of information only the user should know or have immediately to hand such as a physical token or a random generated OTP (One Time Password).OTP is a six numeric digit code that generated by cryptographic functions in a short interval. Even if the hacker will get your Joomla administrator username and password, they would still require the OTP to logged in the system.If you want to enable the Two-Factor Authentication, it requires Joomla 3.2.0 or higher version.#### The steps to enable Two-Factor Authentication: Step 1: Login to the administration panel Step 2: Click on Components >> Post-installation Messages Step 3: Click on Enable two-factor authentication Step 4: Install a Google Authenticator compatible client for your device### Use SSL CertificationUse SSL certificate on your site and force Joomla into SSL mode.Before enable SSL mode be sure that you have configured SSL certificate for your site’s domain, or you will not be able to enable this feature.When you use an SSL certificate on your website, it will encrypt the user’s username and password before sent to your server over the internet.Read our blog post to know - How To Enable SSL On Joomla Website?## Last WordsIf you follow these steps, the chances to be hacked your Joomla website is decreased and your site will be more secure than past. And you’ll be able to recover your site quickly than ever if it will be hacked.I hope this helps you! Share your tips with us if those are not listed here.

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Do you know what is a webmaster's biggest nightmare? You're right. It's the hackers. Every now and then, website administrators get to deal with hackers. It's not possible to make your website 100% hack-proof. A small security hole in your entire website's coding can give an experienced hacker access to the backend of your website. And if they manage to crack it down, you may have a hard time figuring out what to do if you didn't have a backup. However, if you do have a backup, you can restore the site. But what's the guarantee that it won't be hacked again? How do you exactly determine which security hole gave the hacker access to your server in the first place?There is one tool that can do the job of finding out what's the security hole and what other weak points there are on your website. The tool is called My Joomla. If you remember, we faced the same Joomla hacked experience a while ago at ThemeXperts. This is the tool that made our website's security stronger and protected. But before we talk about how to audit your website with this tool, let's first look at some of the basic features the site comes with.###Features- My Joomla scans your entire website in just a few moments. You have to first sign up with them and you will be provided with a downloadable extension that you need to upload and install on your Joomla site. The tool then scans for all potentially harmful contents in your website and shows you possible reasons of Joomla hack. - During a Joomla hack, a hacker may leave a backdoor on any of your website's core files so that they can gain access later. My Joomla will instantly scan and recognize those changes in the file that are suspicious.- If you're using too many extensions and your site is very large, you might be wondering which files are untouched and which files are affected. With My Joomla, you can easily revert the core files to their distributed state making sure everything is at their default.- Like I already said, you will never know where the security holes are. My Joomla can look them up for you on you Joomla hacked site and you can make very technical changes in your Joomla quite easily with the tool.- You can also get suggestions for best practices by using this tool and prevent chances of future Joomla hack. For example, if you are using root username to connect the database, you're at risk. The tool My Joomla will suggest you to change that username to something more complex so that hackers can never guess what it is.###What to do after a Joomla site is hackedYou can use the tool to secure and fix hacked website of yours and NOT to backup or restore the content. My Joomla offers two types of auditing. The easiest way is to let them do the job. But if you're a little familiar with Joomla administration interface and how these things work, you can do the audit by yourself. You need to register with a username and add your website before you can audit it. Just so you know, the first audit is totally free of charge. From second audit onwards, however, you will have to pay which is worth the service.So, let's fix and secure your Joomla site for free!###Install and ActivateAfter you add your first website, you'll see a screen idential to the one below. You must click the Generate new connector for the extension to be ready.Within moments, the download button will show up and you can download and install the extension to your Joomla website the usual way.As you can see, you can also use the button on Step 2 go to go the Joomla administration panel on your website directly.Once the plugin has been installed, you'll see a message saying that there isn't anything more you can do from your Joomla administration. You need to go to the first tab and continue with the following.The buttons to test endpoint are self-explanatory. Click accordingly.If connection was established, you will see the word “endpoint” upon clicking the button. Remember to click the right button. If you are using Joomla 1.5.x, use the 1st button. If Joomla 2.5+ is running on your site, use the second button.Now, click the Connection Test button to make sure that the connection has been established. If connection is established, you'll briefly see the success message.You will then be redirected to start audit page. You will have to confirm that you want to start auditing now. The page here will look identical to the one below:As soon as you click the start button, My Joomla will start its magic on your Joomla hacked site. You will see a live screen of what the plugin is doing on the next screen. Be patient, though; this may take a while if you have a very large website.As the audit finishes, you'll see a screen with all the details of audit results. From there, you will be able to view what problem fond on your Joomla hacked site. If it has found any problem, there will be blue button that reads “next steps” next to the configuration name.If you click the next steps button, you'll see all the details of what the problem was and what the tool recommends you to fix the issue of your Joomla hacked site.If you scroll through the audit results, you might be a little bit overwhelmed. The tools developer writes,

Remember, the object is NOT just to get green OK for each item, the aim is to understand more about your site and its integrity at this moment in time. In fact it's impossible to resolve all items in this list as some checks have knock on effects to others.

Establishing a sound business communication with your existing customers and targeted clients is considered key to business strategy. The more you get a chance to communicate with the audience, the more you feel what they expect from you. Now the question is. What is the effective way to reach to customers easily? The answer is managing an interactive Joomla support forum on your website.You might be thinking, why to manage a forum in a separate website instead of using social channels. Though social media are easier ways to reach existing and target customer, but the problem is the user created issues are unorganized. Even they are difficult to find out quickly. So if you want to foster real discussion and want to manage them easily on your site, your best bet is to add a Joomla forum.Before bouncing from this post cowering in fear, allow me to ease your mind. You don’t need to know a single line of code to add a Joomla forum plugin to your Joomla site. You might think, I’m kidding. No, I am not. The only thing you have to install the extension and configure them to your specification.From my experience I found two awesome Joomla forum plugin in Joomla JED (Joomla Extension Directory), the first in Kunena (Free) and another is EasyDiscuss (Premium).##Forum with Kunena###Step 01To install a blog in your Joomla website, you have to download Kunena first from Kunena official website and then install the extension via Extension > Extension Manager > Install > Upload Package File link from the Joomla Back-end.###Step 02Now, We have successfully installed the Kunena Joomla forum extension, but forum could not access from the website front-end. To access the Joomla forum from front-end, we have to add a new item in the main menu. To add a new item in main menu, click on Add New Menu Item via Menus > Main Menu link.Now add Menu Title (I titled Discussion), and click on select button from Menu Item Type. Unfold Kunena Forum tab. It will open up some options, select Home Page from the options and click Save and Close.###Step 03Now head to the front-end of your website, I am using Appy (Responsive Joomla Template for App & Business) template. You can see an item titled Discussion added to the main menu. Under the Discussion menu item you can see, a full-fledged forum system has been added.I installed Kunena with its default feature and haven’t changed any single settings. If you want to know further settings of Kunena, get into Kunena Dashboard via Components > Kunena-Forum. From the Dashboard, you can manage your user, rank, file, template plugins and many more.##Forum with EasyDiscuss###Step 01EasyDiscuss is a great premium Joomla forum extension for Joomla websites developed by Stackideas. If you want to buy EasyDiscuss, Stackideas provides a 20% discount for any of their extensions of ThemeXpert account holders (coupon: BLOGXPERT20). To install EasyDiscuss, download the extension from their website and install it as we installed kunena. When you successfully install Easydiscuss the following screen will appears.###Step 02Now, We’ll add a menu item in the main menu to access Easydiscuss from the front-end. The process is the same as we did Kunena Installation. Click on Add New Menu Item via Menus > Main Menu link.We titled menu item Discussion for Kunena, in this turn, we'll title Forum for Easydiscuss. And click on the Select button from Menu Item Type. Unfold EasyDiscuss tab, It will again open up some options, select Frontpage Layout from the option and click Save and Close.###Step 03Now back to the front-end, you can see a new menu item has been added titled Forum in the main menubar. Don’t forget click on Forum, now have a look EasyDiscuss is rocking on your website.EasyDiscuss comes with total forum management system with extensive control handles, such as Auto Posting, Tags Manager, Category Manager, Role Manager, Blog Moderation, Custom Field, Moderation and many more. If you want to pay with the options, head over to Components and click on EasyDiscuss. and you will be taken to the EasyDiscuss Dashboard.###ConclusionIn this tutorial we shared our experience of Blog with Kunena and EasyDiscuss, but before you embark on your Joomla forum-creating journey, I want to hear from you “What Joomla forum extension do you use for forum that I missed here?” As always, I'll be glad to have your thoughts in comments.If you need any free responsive Joomla templates, we have a list of good collection. Also a list of premium Joomla templates is also available. Be sure to check these templates.

Delivering transactional emails is considered one of the most recursive and important tasks for a website owner. If your transactional emails fail to reach recipients’ inbox, it will be difficult for you to have the benefits of an automated email transaction. An automated email transaction is heavily dependent on a reliable SMTP server.However, using an ordinary email service provider such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Hotmail has its restrictions. This is because they allow only a certain number of emails to be sent by a particular user per day. You might be thinking what is a smart solution for transactional email delivery and how to configure it, right?For the purpose of this article I am going to discuss how to set up Mandrill for transactional emails. Mandrill facilitates sending 12,000 emails per month absolutely free. It’s easy to configure with a couple of steps. But the steps could be different depending on CMS. My today’s goal is to show you how to set up Joomla SMTP server on your Joomla website.## Step 01To setup an Joomla SMTP server for transactional emails, you must have a registered account on the Mandrill website. Login to your Mandrill account, it will take you to the Dashboard of your account. Click on Get SMTP Credential button. Mandrill will verify your account password and give you Host, Port, SMTP Username and SMTP Password details under SMTP & API Credentials tab. But SMTP Password requires valid API key. By default Mandrill doesn't provide an API key for SMTP password. To get the API Key, click on the Add API Key button. and you will be notified with a valid API Key.##Step 02Now we have all the SMTP credentials to configure an Joomla SMTP server on a Joomla powered website. Head to the Joomla backend. Go to the Global Configuration via System > Global Configuration link and click on server tab. Under the server you will find Mail Setting. Now we can configure Joomla Mailing Settings for the SMTP server using the following settings:- Send Mail: Yes- Mailer: SMTP- From Email: The email address your recipients get mails from.- SMTP Authentication: Yes- SMTP Security: SSL- SMTP Port: 465- SMTP username: Your Mandrill username- SMTP password: Your Mandrill password (API Key)- SMTP host: smtp.mandrillapp.com (Mandrill Host)If the 465 port doesn’t work, use the following settings:- SMTP Security: TLS- SMTP Port: 587##Step 03You might be thinking how do you scan for empty or busy ports. Don't worry, it's easy. Head over to mxtoolbox.com, select Port Scan from MX Lookup drop down, enter your desired website address and scan your site ports.##Step 04Now register your user from the front-end of your Joomla website, and your user will get a confirmation email from your website system automatically. If you don't have a module to test your user registration, just type your website URL with following extension (www.example.com/index.php?option=com_users&view=registration), and it will open the user registration form. Complete your registration with your test email address, you will get a confirmation email.##ConclusionI have shared my working experience with the technology I use for transactional email delivery. I would like to hear from you what extension you use for your SMTP client, in case I missed anything in my article. I would be grateful to have your experience in the comments.If you are interested to read more, you can check our blog. For Joomla templates and Joomla extensions check here. Originally published at www.magazine.joomla.org

A couple of weeks ago we were developing a Joomla! contact form extension called Xpert Contact. We are glad developers developed the extension professionally well with reCAPTCHA support. To study the best practice to provide CAPTCHA support, we searched for the resource in the web but unfortunately we found nothing interesting.So, we decided write the tutorial on our own. In this tutorial First I’ll show you how to enable the new "No CAPTCHA Joomla reCAPTCHA" in Joomla default contact forms and subsequently show the details way to provide support of this API in the Joomla extensions.##Add the New Google ReCaptcha to Joomla Contact FormsAdding No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA API in your Joomla websites doesn’t require elusive and tedious steps to walk through. It combines a set of instruction to follow. Let’s dig in.###Step #1 Collection the public and secret keysTo enable Joomla reCAPTCHA in your Joomla website, you have to collect public and secret keys from Google reCaptcha site. When you are on the Google reCaptcha official site, select the Get reCAPTCHA button from the top right corner.Provide site details including Label, Domains and Owners email address to register your website for Google reCAPTCHA. and click register button.Now your site domain is registered, you have site and private keys are available to proceed for Captcha integration in your Joomla website.###Step #2 Enable Joomla reCaptcha pluginLog into your Joomla backend and head to the Plugins from Extensions menu. Search for Captcha - ReCaptcha. The Captcha plugin comes up being in disabled status.Now click to edit Captcha - ReCaptcha plugin, select version 2.0 from version dropdown, add site as well as private keys in the specific fields, change Theme if you want; default it will set the theme Dark, change status disabled to enabled, and click save and close.###Step #3 Enable ReCaptcha globallyWe’ve successfully enabled Joomla reCaptcha plugin. Now we need to enable it globally. Head to System > Global configuration. select Captcha - ReCaptcha from Default captcha dropdown.Now head to the contact or register form page of your Joomla website, you’ll noticed Captcha would be successful integrated.##Add support of Google ReCaptcha to Joomla Contact Forms pluginsWhen you are developing contact form plugin for Joomla, it’s essential to enable reCaptcha to protect from abusive bots. If you don’t have experience to developed reCaptcha enabled contact form plugins, don’t worry I am here to flip you through the entire steps.Great news is we have XpertContact module created which supports Captcha. For the quick demonstration I’ll explain how we provide support for Captcha in the contact form module. Before heading further I recommend you to download the module first.

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$form = JForm::getInstance('customForm','path/to/form/form.xml',array('control' => 'jform'));

$fieldSets = $form->getFieldsets();foreach ($fieldSets as $name => $fieldSet) :  foreach ($form->getFieldset($name) as $field):    echo $field->getControlGroup();  endforeach;endforeach; 

$data   = $this->input->get('jform', array(), 'array');$form   = JForm::getInstance('customForm','path/to/form/form.xml');$result = $form->validate($data);// Check for validation errors.if ($return === false){  // codes goes here  $return = '';  // Get the validation messages from the form.  foreach ($form->getErrors() as $message)  {    $return .= $message->getMessage();  }  //now you can return error msg  return $return;}// validation successful, do your job here

Get to the Xpert Contact root directory, you will notice we’ve performed the validation in helper.php file.

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Another button called Custom Fields added adjacent to editor bottom.Get into

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