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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.
Read more: Use OSDownloads for Marketing Automation in Joomla
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.
Read more: Simplify JCal Pro by Hiding the List of Categories in Monthly Calendar
How to Hide the Download Button for the Public User Group in OSDownloads
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 28 November 2024 28 November 2024
If you want to control who sees the "Download" button for OSDownload files, Joomla offers a simple solution.
By using RegularLabs.com's "Conditional Content" extension and customizing a template override, you can restrict access to logged-in users only.
This post will show you how to set it up effectively.
Read more: How to Hide the Download Button for the Public User Group in OSDownloads
How to Open a Shack Forms Pro Form with a Button
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 21 November 2024 21 November 2024
One of our customers asked how to open a Shack Forms Pro contact form module with a button. Every form module you create in the Shack Forms Pro component provides you with an HTML code for a hyperlink that will open this particular form module.
You can then add some basic inline CSS code to this HTML link to convert it to a button and style its design as you see fit. In this blog post, you will learn how to add a Shack Forms Pro button inside a Joomla article.
Allow Front End Users to Export Future Events of Your JCal Pro Calendar
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 11 October 2024 11 October 2024
JCal Pro is a powerful extension for Joomla that allows you to create and manage events on your website. One of its great features is the ability for your viewers to export future events directly from the front end of your site.
This functionality is incredibly useful for users who want to add your upcoming events to their desktop, mobile, or online calendars, ensuring they never miss an important date. Here is a birds-eye view of this feature.
Read more: Allow Front End Users to Export Future Events of Your JCal Pro Calendar
All the Joomla News for September 2024
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 October 2024 04 October 2024
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack.
Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
We've posted all of these updates, plus a lot more in the Joomlashack Facebook group, so join if you want daily Joomla updates. We have over 1,500 members now!
All the Joomla News for August 2024
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 September 2024 04 September 2024
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack.
Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
We've posted all of these updates, plus a lot more in the Joomlashack Facebook group, so join if you want daily Joomla updates. We have over 1,500 members now!
Thanks to René Kreijveld, Our Dutch Translation Hero
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 01 September 2024 01 September 2024
We are thrilled to share some exciting news with our Dutch community!
Our OSCampus Pro, OSEmbed, OSVimeo, and OSYouTube extensions now fully support the Dutch language, thanks to the dedicated efforts of René Kreijveld, a phenomenal contributor to our translation projects.
Read more: Thanks to René Kreijveld, Our Dutch Translation Hero