Today I ran into an issue on one of my Joomla! sites that had me baffled…
When I went to my site and into one of the categories, everything looked as it should. However, when I refreshed the page using IE's Refresh button, all images on that page disappeared and did not return until I cleared my site's cache!
I was afraid it was a problem with the SEF (search engine friendly URLs) settings, and that was the case apparently. When I turned off sh404SEF, it did work correctly, but I wanted that plugin enabled, of course.
I went into the forums, and found the simple solution that solved the problem:
- In your Administrator interface, go to Extensions | Plugin Manager
- In the Select Type dropdown box on the right, select 'system'
- Make sure 'System – SEF' is the first plugin in the list of system plugins, so before the 'System – sh404sef' plugin
- Clear your cache and it all works correctly now!
I hope that, when you encounter the same issue with disappearing images in Joomla!, you can solve the problem using this fix as well!
Robin Roelofsen
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Jaron Lanier
Thanks for this article, it really helped!
Glad I could help! Really baffled me when it happened, and I was sure more people would come across this issue!
Thank you very much for this information. I do not have the sh404sef plugin installed on my joomla site, but i was having the problem with disappearing images on my reference pages. As soon as I went in to the Plugin Manager and moved System – SEF to the first position, it was fixed. Thanks a million!
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Gladly done! Great it worked for you as well.