The Joomlashack Blog
Add to Menu - Easily Add Joomla Articles to Menus
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 10 July 2012 10 July 2012
Add to Menu does exactly what it's name says. It allows you to easily add Joomla articles or components to your menus.
With Add to Menu you will get an extra link in the top right of your Administrator to quickly add a menu link.
Here's how to use Add to Menu:
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Add Custom Fields to Virtuemart Products
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 05 July 2012 05 July 2012
Virtuemart is the most popular Joomla shopping cart, but it can also be challenging for beginners.
We have covered Virtuemart several times, including a comprehensive beginner guide.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to make your product information more interesting by using custom fields. This will allow you to add all sorts of specific details to your products, beyond simply the name, price and description.
New SEO Training College at Joomlashack
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 26 June 2012 26 June 2012
Joomlashack's SEO College Launches Today
We've been dilligently building content and we are now proud to announce the launch of our new school: The SEO College at Joomlashack. During the last few years we have taught thousands how to design great and reliable websites using Joomla, now it´s time to learn how to:
1. Get your sites found by search engines and the people you want. So you can:
2. Drive more traffic to your sites. In order to:
3. Increase your sites' conversions.
SEO College Landing Page
Social Pinboard - A Pinterest Clone for Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 25 June 2012 25 June 2012
Social Pinboard is an extension that can turn your Joomla site into a Pinterest.com-style social photo sharing site.With Social Pinboard, your users can create collections of images. Users can also browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections, and 'like' photos.
In this tutorial, we're going to explain the installation, review the product, and make some comparisons with Pinterest.
JPrc Cronjobs Provides Cron for Joomla
- Published: 19 June 2012 19 June 2012
Cron is a feature of many servers but is sometimes unavailable to the user. For example, Godaddy does not give users access to cron.
Using the JPrc Cronjobs extension, we'll show in this tutorial how anyone can use cron on their Joomla site.
Building Multi-lingual Joomla 2.5 Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 June 2012 19 June 2012
About a year ago we wrote a tutorial which showed how to build multi-lingual sites in Joomla.
This tutorial proved to be one of the most popular we've ever written. However, Joomla has made some updates since last year, and so this is our update to that tutorial. We also now have a complete training class on multi-lingual sites for our members.
This tutorial covers how to build a multi-lingual site with only the Joomla core. This doesn't replace other multi-lingual content extensions such as Falang or Joomfish.
6 Useful New Features in Joomla 2.5.6
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 June 2012 19 June 2012
Joomla 2.5.6 was released today. This release is a mix of bug fixes, low-level security releases and new features.
You can update your sites in just three steps:
- Login to your site's administrator area.
- Click the big "Joomla 2.5.6 Update Now" button.
- Click Install the update.
After updating, here's an introduction to the new features you'll see:
JFBConnect Integrates Joomla and Facebook
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 15 June 2012 15 June 2012
We get a lot of students wanting to connect their Joomla site to Facebook.
We often recommend using an extension called JFBConnect because it offers a wide range of integrations between Joomla and Facebook including:
- Users can register and log into your site with their Facebook credentials.
- Users' Facebook profiles will be automatically pulled into their JomSocial, Community Builder, or Kunena profile.
- You can add Facebook comments to your site.
Classic Joomla Template updated to the Wright Framework
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 10 June 2012 10 June 2012
Vintage is one of our most loved Joomla Templates
I don't know exactly what it is. Perhaps it's the timeless design, or the simplicity with which the module positions allow the designer to tell his or her story, or maybe it's the incredibly versatile antique look to it, Vintage has been a perennial bestseller loved by web-designers the world over. If you are a Developer Club Member, download it for free now.
A good thing got even better - now built on the Wright Framework
The Wright Framework is a major upgrade and outstanding value added to our Joomla Templates and the websites built upon it. The name is in honor of the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright and his minimalist style. In a Joomla Template, the Wright Framework is like a combination of a foundation and a blank blueprint. A solid and versatile foundation to build upon, and a blank and empty blueprint upon which the web designer can create his or her masterpiece.
Read more: Classic Joomla Template updated to the Wright Framework
New Joomla Multi-Lingual Sites Class
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 May 2012 29 May 2012
Since we wrote it a year ago, our tutorial called "Multi-language Sites in Joomla" has been hugely popular.
Today we're happy to announce a full course on the topic: Joomla Muitl-lingual Sites.
The class has 11 parts. You'll start by adding easy, automatic translations to your site and by creating full multi-lingual sites. We show how you to create a multi-lingual site using the Joomla core and also using the Falang extension.