The Joomlashack Blog
Showtime a New Joomla Template made for featuring images and video
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 19 March 2013 19 March 2013
Beautiful Visuals Deserve A Beautiful Website
With this thought in mind, we decided to create Showtime, a Joomla template that allows you to display, classify, and organize a huge amount of visual information. Showtime is the perfect template to showcase great works of photographers, illustrators, videographers, creative people, creative agencies, or freelancers to name a few.
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Update your Local Joomla Repository on a PC using TortoiseGit
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 13 March 2013 13 March 2013
In the last tutorial, we showed you how to create a local repository.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to update the local repository with the latest development changes from Joomla.
This should be done each time before testing bugs or applying patches to make sure that we have the latest fixes.
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Create a Local Version of the Joomla Github Repository using TortoiseGit
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 13 March 2013 13 March 2013
This tutorial will show you how to create a local version of the Joomla github repository, which houses the latest code base for Joomla.
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How to Install TortoiseGit on a Windows PC
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 13 March 2013 13 March 2013
This tutorial will show you how to download and install TortoiseGit, which we will use in subsequent tutorials to test and create patches.
TortoiseGit is not the only software that you can use to test and create patches, but it's easy to use, so that's why we decided to use it for our tutorials on patches. TortoiseGit is only available on Windows. I will be posting a Mac tutorial later today.
How to Report a Joomla Bug on Joomlacode.org
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 13 March 2013 13 March 2013
If you want a Joomla bug to get fixed, you should report it to the Joomla Bug Squad with the bug tracker.
This tutorial will show you step-by-step how to file a Joomla bug report.
Test a Joomla Patch on a Windows PC using TortoiseGit
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 12 March 2013 12 March 2013
This tutorial will teach you how to test a Joomla patch (i.e. code fix) on a Windows PC using TortoiseGit. It assumes you've already installed TortoiseGit and created a local repository of the Joomla using TortoiseGit.
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How to Test Joomla 3 Beta Versions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 March 2013 11 March 2013
Joomla 3 is the Short Term Support version of Joomla and so new versions with new features arrive regularly.
Joomla 3.1 is due at the end of March. The major new feature is likely to be Tags, which can be added to articles and extensions to organize them more effectively.
You can see our full introduction to the Tags feature here.
A Beta version of Joomla 3.1 is already out. The Joomla team wants as many people as possible to test each version before release, so they make it easy to install and test Beta versions. Here's how to test Joomla 3.1 and Tags.
New Joomla Extension - Easy Social Icons
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 07 March 2013 07 March 2013
New Joomla Extension Release
Easy Social Icons is the first of many new Joomla Extensions we will release this year. Our Joomlashack Extensions were designed by Joomla Professionals to make running Joomla Sites Easier and more productively. Our Joomla Extensions provide you with the kind of tools, service, and benefits that you WISH you could use in EVERY site you build.
Joomla 3.1 Tags Preview
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 06 March 2013 06 March 2013
Joomla 3.1 is just around the corner; and one of the most exciting proposed features for it is Tags.
The Tags feature is still currently under review. If Tags are included, it would likely be the "poster-child" for the Joomla 3.1 release.
One of the best features about the Tags component is that it allows other extensions to connect to its API and use the tags. Eextension developers can implement tagging into their component and interact with other tags easily.
In the following screenshots, I'll take you through the Tags component, its menu items, and extensions, as well as highlight some of its coolest features along the way.
Joomla Day Boston Done Wright
- Written by TJ Baker TJ Baker
- Published: 26 February 2013 26 February 2013
A couple weeks ago we announced the move of The Wright Joomla Template Framework to Github in an effort to make it more accessible and invite collaboration. In addition to opening up and inviting collaboration, we're also expanding our efforts to showcase the work of those who adopt Wright for their site development needs! In this our first Wright Wednesday Developer Showcase we're excited to share a short interview and the work of Dianne Henning, organizer and site developer for Joomla Day Boston.