Multiple URLs to the same page in Joomla!
TL;DR: In Joomla there's often more than one way to get to the same page, if you're moving off
joomla this needs to be considered, *preferably before moving any pages*. This article discusses
the cases that I found
[during my recent move to hugo](https://www.thecoderscorner.com/team-blog/web-design/cms/moving-to-hugo-from-joomla/).
URL Mappings in Joomla, the background
Recently I decided to move a joomla site over to hugo; I had search engine friendly URLs turned on and therefore assumed the mapping should be easy. Whatever the path was in Joomla, should be the same path for Hugo (insert CMS of choice) right?
Moving to Hugo static CMS from Joomla
In this article I discuss moving sites from Joomla over to Hugo static content manager. Before we start
lets take a quick look at why we may want to do this, and the cases were it may not be appropriate.
tl;dr: In summary, hosting a site on Joomla is time consuming and requires that both Joomla and PHP are frequently updated. If you’re site is suitable for Hugo and are considering moving over, take a look through the phases below.
Recovering from a hacked Joomla site
I’ve recently had to help someone still running Joomla to clean up a hacked site. We are not sure how it happened, as they generally applied updates pretty quickly, but luckily it was detected very quickly and brought down to be fixed.
If your site is hacked, consider taking it offline immediately, fixing will not take that long, and if search engines detect the problem, you’ll be taken out of the search results until it’s fixed. Further, you’ll have to get re-listed when you’ve removed the compromised pages.
Remove duplicate "contact" heading in Joomla contact form
In this article I show you how to remove the second 'contact form' header from the default contact form in Joomla without hacking your install. I'd seen a couple of videos on you tube that suggested one should alter the underlying installation. You can do this without altering the installation.
The problem
Just to make sure we are talking about the same problem. I am discussing the situation where when creating a default Joomla contact form, there are two headers, which by default will look something like the image shown. If this is the problem you have then it is easily fixed by adding a language override to blank out the second header.
