Best Practice for Joomla & WordPress Sites
Every check in the mySites.guru Snapshot and Audit (well over 100 of them) has a “Learn More” page explaining what the check looks for, why it matters, and what to do about it.
Not everyone will agree with every recommendation we make, and that’s fine. Each check exists for a reason, most of it based on years of involvement with the Joomla project (and more recently WordPress).
Each “Learn More” page includes most of the following:
- Our Recommendation
- How the audit checks this setting
- Background Information
- A tool to investigate, or an explanation of why no tool is available
- Further Reading
- Get Expert Assistance
To make this concrete, the rest of this post walks through one check: “Logs/tmp Folder Locations Should Exist At Default Locations” for Joomla sites.
WordPress-specific checks include things like debug constants and admin bar logo removal, each with a one-click toggle. Joomla-specific checks work the same way. For example, the new Enable Joomla 6.1 module versioning check flips save_history on across every connected 6.1 site in a click.
This check is in the snapshot, and looks like this:
You can click on the Learn More link to get to that page.
The recommendation
This block states what we consider the correct best practice, with context explaining why.
Example “Our Recommendation” block on the Learn More page
How the audit checks this
This block explains, in technical and non-technical language how the mySites.guru snapshot/audit process gets its data for this check.
Background information
This block includes any additional background context worth knowing about the issue.
Further Reading
Links to relevant documentation, official Joomla or WordPress resources, or third-party guidance. Where licensing prevents us from reproducing content directly, we link out instead.
Tools
Usually a direct link to the Investigate Tool, or back to the Snapshot/Audit tabs if this check has a toggle.
Get Expert Assistance
If you need help fixing an issue, we offer fixed-fee paid consultancy to resolve problems identified in a snapshot or audit. Full details and request form at fix.mysites.guru.
Frequently Asked Questions
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