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"We have one on JFoobar, that one works on weekdays (showing the name of the day). If you're interested I can package the code and share it."

"That is correct. ReReplacer does it's replacing through its system plugin. But Stian is correct in saying that costs server power. Like any system plugin it has to be called and do it's thing. Which costs server time and power. Not much,…"

"Thanks for clarifying Laura. The situation you describe was for me a lesson well learned... I never ever use one of the standard templates that come with Joomla. Simply because of the updates issue. My suggestion in this case: create a copy of the…"

"Laura - If we are going to rant, Why stop there? Why can't we just turn those sequence numbers off to begin with? Is there anyone who really wants sequence numbers? I sure don't! As others are saying, one of Joomla!'s strengths is…"

"A bit of self promoting again... That's why I made ReReplacer. You can manipulate the output joomla/extensions generate without touching any files. So not only for Joomla core files, but also 3rd party extensions. As Rene said, you can use…"

"Ignoring the obvious - i.e. don't make changes to the core - I guess the obvious way to deal with this is to use SVN. If you checkout the tag for the version in question then make your changes you will be able to maintain those changes when…"

""when I modify something, let's say, I take the numbers off the table that lists a category of articles, and a stoopid update writes over it." Why on earth would you need to hack core for that? I don't think I've had to…"

"Mainly I try to avoid modifying core files by using (template) overrides. The example you're describing (take the numbers off the table that lists a category of articles) can be done very very easy by using template overrides. If I do need a…"

"I like to dabble, too! Thanks for joining in.Yosemite is beautiful. There's a place for introductions if you are interested and many very good conversations underway. Feel free to join in the discussions or open a topic of interest. Glad to…"