Please leave your tips on how to improve the workings of Joomla! and its add-ons here. Don't be shy!
To start you off, here's one....
For anyone who uses 'Template Chooser' and wants to make their template choice sticky...
in includes/joomla.php there's a cookie setting for the tempalte but it only lasts 10 minutes. To extend it, reset the time to your choosing. In Joomla 1.0.13 see lines 1288-1295:
// check that template exists in case it was deleted
if (file_exists( $mosConfig_absolute_path .'/templates/'. $jos_change_template .'/index.php' )) {
$lifetime = 60*60*24*365; // *dr* change it from 60x10 (=10 minutes) to 60*60*24*365 (=365 days) to save template choice for 365 days;
$cur_template = $jos_change_template;
setcookie( 'jos_user_template', \"$jos_change_template\", time()+$lifetime);
} else {
setcookie( 'jos_user_template', '', time()-3600 );
}
