Joomlashack Blog and Updates

Simple Image Gallery for Simple Joomla Photos

: Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea; Published: 16 August 2012 16 August 2012

Simple Image Gallery does exactly what it says on the tin.

Simple Image Gallery (SIG Plus) makes it simple to create a photo gallery on your Joomla site in just minutes.

It also has more advanced features that allow you to create more sophisticated galleries with just a little more effort. This makes Simple Image Gallery a good all-around image management and display tool for almost any Joomla website.

eXtplorer Adds File Managment Directly to Joomla

: Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea; Published: 09 August 2012 09 August 2012

Do you need to upload files or change permissions on your Joomla files? Are you stuck because you don't have easy access to your files? eXtplorer is the solution.

eXtplorer provides file management from inside the Joomla administrator area. It's a Joomla version of the open source file manager also called eXtplorer.

This tutorial is a short introduction to eXtplorer to show you how easy it is to use.

Better Preview for Joomla

: Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea; Published: 09 August 2012 09 August 2012

Better Preview is a Joomla extension which makes it much easier to see a preview of the article you're writing.

The core Joomla preview function just returns you to the homepage or an isolated preview that is not integrated with the template.

Better Preview allows you to immediately see the changes you've made to articles. You'll see them on the front of the site, inside your template, and surrounded by modules.

Share it, our new Social Media Joomla Extension

: Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack; Published: 08 August 2012 08 August 2012

The need for good Share Buttons

Social Media Share buttons are a must for every site and blog. These buttons do a lot more than be able to use social media to engage your users and and help them stay up to date with your company's happenings. They are highly instrumental in helping your site's SEO.

Akeeba Subscriptions - Build a Joomla Membership Site

: Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea; Published: 04 August 2012 04 August 2012

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Akeeba Subscriptions is an extension that allows you to create paid membership sites.

Akeeba Subscriptions integrates directly with Joomla's access controls and with dozens of popular extensions, such as JomSocial, Community Builder or Virtuemart.

In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to get started with Akeeba Subscriptions.

Corp the New Joomla Template from Joomlashack

: Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack; Published: 31 July 2012 31 July 2012

Last week we launched Natural and this week we are proud to announce the launch of another great new Joomla Template. We've been working so hard you could say we are ready to go to the Joomla Olympics. ;)

2nd product launch in the 6-in-6 Challenge

What is the 6-in-6 Challenge? It is one of the ways we push ourselves harder than anyone else in the Joomlasphere. While others are happy launching but one Joomla Template per month, we are going to attempt, again for the second time this year, to launch 6 products in 6 weeks. With great pride, we present you Corp, our newest Joomla Template and what is surely another gold medal.

Snippets - Reusable Content in Joomla

: Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea; Published: 30 July 2012 30 July 2012

Here at OSTraining.com we rely on several key extensions. Few are more important to us than Snippets.

We run over 100 classes per year. If a teacher updates their bio, we need to update in dozens of different places on our site. If we update our curriculum, we need to update it in hundreds of places. We use Snippets to make that process much easier.

Snippets allows you to enter content in one central location and then re-use it anywhere on your site.

Projectfork - Project Management for Joomla

: Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea; Published: 23 July 2012 23 July 2012

Update: Projectfork is no more, but if you're really interested in project management in the open source area, check out UpStream, a WordPress project management plugin.

Projectfork is the most popular Joomla project management extension.

In this tutorial, we're going to give you step-by-step directions on how to use Projectfork. We're going to create a project, add milestones to the project, add to-do tasks and do much more.

New 6-in-6 Challenge and a New Joomla Template

: Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack; Published: 22 July 2012 22 July 2012

The Summer 6-in-6 Challenge

Most Joomla Template companies launch just one Joomla Template each month, however we dont feel that 12 templates a year is enough. So for the past few years we have made the promise to our clients to launch more than 20 per year. That's almost twice as many as our competitors and we should be happy and proud of that huge acomplishment. However, every once in a while we go a little crazy - - it may be the heat or the humidity, and being the gluttons for punishment we are, we decide to push ourselves even harder and launch 6 new, reliable, and exciting products in as many weeks.

6 New Products: 4 Joomla Templates and 2 Joomla Extensions to be Launched during the next 6 Weeks

If you recall, we failed our last 6-in-6 challenge. The last template we launched in the challenge, the exciting and revolutionary N6, was delayed and we ended up launching our 6 Joomla Templates in a period of 7 weeks. This time we have made the challenge even more complicated because we will be including two Joomla Extensions as part of the 6 products we will launch. Stay tuned during the next 6 weeks as we embark in this difficult undertaking.

What You Need to Know About Joomla 3

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 16 July 2012 16 July 2012

The big news for Joomla is clear: Joomla 3 is now only three months away from launch.

We're going to give a run down of everything you need to know about this new version:

Joomla 3 in a Nutshell

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What's great about Joomla 3? This is the version that will bring Joomla up-to-speed with the mobile revolution that is taking over the web.
Who is Joomla 3 for? To begin with, it is for developers and early adopters only.
I am on Joomla 2.5. What do I do? Stay right where you are! Joomla 2.5 is a wonderful version of Joomla and will be supported until 2014.
Will the upgrade be easy? Yes, the plan is to allow people to upgrade from 2.5 to 3.0 directly from the administrator area of their site. Remember though, you don't need to do that until 2013 or 2014.