The Joomlashack Blog
Make Shack Locations More Powerful with the Built-In Map Search Feature
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 21 March 2025 21 March 2025
If you're using Shack Locations to display maps on your Joomla site, you might have noticed a search box missing. Visitors can see all your locations but can’t search for a specific one.
The good news is that adding a search feature is quick and easy once you know where to look. In this post, I’ll walk you through how I enabled the map search on my own test site and why it makes a big difference in user experience.
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How to Embed Google Sheets in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 March 2025 14 March 2025
Google Sheets is Google's version of Microsoft Excel.
At Joomlashack, we have many members who rely on spreadsheets, so we created tools to help. Did you know you can also send Joomla forms results directly to Google Sheets?
Google Sheets is a powerful tool that integrates seamlessly with Joomla. In this guide, I'll show you how to embed Google Sheets into your Joomla site using just a URL.
How to Hide a Teacher's Email in OSCampus Pro
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 07 March 2025 07 March 2025
A customer recently asked how to remove the teacher's email link from the Teacher tab in an OSCampus Pro course. You can do this using Joomla's Template Override feature.
In this blog post, we’ll show you how to achieve this with a simple template modification.
Celebrating 20 Years of OSDownloads!
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 28 February 2025 28 February 2025
Wow, time really flies. This February marks the 20th anniversary of our OSDownloads extension. It feels like just yesterday that we created this Joomla extension to make it easy for people to download ebooks in exchange for an email address.
How to Change Text with Joomla Language Overrides
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 25 February 2025 25 February 2025
Did you know you can change any default text on your Joomla site without touching the language files?
The feature that makes this possible is "Language Overrides". If you're new to "overrides", check out this blog post.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use the Language Overrides Joomla core component to customize your site's text safely.
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The Simple Fix for OSEmbed Not Working in JCE Editor
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 20 February 2025 20 February 2025
One of our OSEmbed customers noticed that instead of embedding their URLs as videos or maps, Joomla was stubbornly turning them into clickable text links. If you're using the JCE Editor, this happens because it automatically converts pasted links into clickable text.
While this is great for regular web content, it completely disrupts OSEmbed’s ability to display videos, maps, or documents properly. In this blog post, you will learn a simple fix—just tweak a setting in JCE, and your embeds will work as expected!
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Beginner Guide to OSCampus Pro Search Module
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 14 February 2025 14 February 2025
The OSCampus Pro Search Module helps users quickly find Pathways, Courses, and Lessons, making your site more user-friendly.
In this guide, you will learn how to use it and how to hide its Advanced filter if you prefer a minimalist design.
How to Embed Facebook Posts in Joomla Articles
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 07 February 2025 07 February 2025
Joomla does not natively support embedding Facebook posts in articles. If you’ve attempted it before, you may have noticed Joomla either removes the embed code or fails to display the post.
The good news? There’s a simple workaround! Follow these steps to successfully embed a Facebook post in your Joomla article.
Use OSDownloads for Marketing Automation in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 January 2025 31 January 2025
If you use Joomla for marketing automation, we have a useful OSDownloads feature that you'll love.
OSDownloads integrates with Mailchimp Groups. This means you can send targeted emails to people downloading a particular file.
For example, if someone downloads OSDownloads, we can automatically send them a series of follow-up emails about that extension.
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Simplify JCal Pro by Hiding the List of Categories in Monthly Calendar
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 09 January 2025 09 January 2025
The JCal Pro monthly calendar prominently displays a list of your events' categories by default.
While this is useful in many scenarios, there might be a use case where you'd prefer a cleaner look without the list of your events' categories. If this applies to you, don’t worry—removing the list of categories is possible and straightforward.
In this blog post, you will learn a step-by-step guide for hiding the events' categories list on your JCal Pro monthly calendar.
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