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Help! All my Joomla! Articles/Plugins/Modules have disappeared
New Joomla! Users Tips & Tricks
I bet they haven’t! Joomla! Admin backend remembers what you last did whilst you are working with it. So, for example, if you were editing an article in one of your specific sections or categories and chose to look for it by using a filter, when you go back to Article Manager it can look as though all the others have disappeared. Just put the filters back to ’select section’ and ’select category’ and you will see them.
The same can happen if you look for plugins and modules in their managers. You might have looked for all modules in the left position, you might have looked for all ‘content’ plugins – just remove the filters and the others will reappear.
Filters are a great way to find what you want quickly – but remembering that you used a filter can save those panic moments when you think everything else has been lost for ever.
10 September 2009 at 16:35
Hi. I’m afraid the answer isn’t as simple as that. The vast majority of my modules have disappeared and won’t show themselves, and I’ve gone through all my filters and none are set. So I’ve gone so far as to create myself a pristine super-admin account, with no dirty filtering history. And the same thing happens. Now I know the problem isn’t me. It’s highly UNintuitive Joomla.
11 September 2009 at 04:01
Things don’t just disappear Suzanne! Were they ever showing? Most modules are positioned by default in the left column – did you change the position to where you want them to be? I assume you enabled the individual modules. Of course whilst developing you won’t have cache turned on and I am sure you know also to clear your browser cache.
Those filters in the backend you refer to are just a tool to make finding things easier – they are not a setting and have no effect on the front end view. If you have filters on the front end eg in a section or category view, those filters are for your visitors and have no effect on the site development. Changing your Admin login would have no effect either. Remember also that there often is more than one page of modules in Module Manager and the same goes for Plugins in the Plugin Manager.
If you can see your modules in your database it will just be a simple setting you have missed assuming that you are using an up-to-date Joomla! which currently is 1.5.14.
Hils
31 March 2010 at 10:46
That’s funny – this just happened to me – almost fainted – and I stumbled upon this post on google (1st in the list) You are right, I just (unfiltered my plugin) list and they all showed up again – Whew!! that freaked me out. Thnx muchly for the tidbit