The Joomlashack Blog
How to Embed Twitch.tv Videos and Streams in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 August 2020 18 August 2020
Twitch is a very popular live streaming platform that is owned by Amazon.
Twitch is famous for streaming video games, but in recent years it branched out into other topics. I've even seen chess games becoming fashionable during the pandemic.
Twitch has millions of broadcasters and tens of millions of viewers each month. In this blog post, I'm going to show how you can embed streams, clips, videos, and chats from Twitch.tv to your Joomla site.
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Control Access to the Main Metadata Screen in OSMeta
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 18 August 2020 18 August 2020
This week, one of our customers asked how to give a Joomla user access only to the OSMeta component. They wanted to allow this user to update all the metadata on their site.
OSMeta is the best Joomla extension to efficiently edit metadata of your Joomla articles, categories, and menu items on a single screen.
In this blog post, you will learn how to create an OSMeta administrator with Joomla's built-in permissions systems.
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My Sidebar Menu is Missing in the Joomla Admin!
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 14 August 2020 14 August 2020
One of our clients was having difficulty finding the Joomla administrator sidebar menu. It was hidden away by a Joomla feature that's easy to miss.
This tutorial will help you get your side menu back quickly. Let's get started.
The normal Joomla administrator view has the side menu on the left side, as in you can see in this image:
Install a Template Manually with Joomla's Discover Feature
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 06 August 2020 06 August 2020
It is very common that large Joomla templates with many features are over 2 MB in size. On some servers, this can make these templates hard to install in the standard way.
Luckily, Joomla provides an alternative for those cases - the "Joomla Discover" core feature.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to install a large template by uploading it through cPanel and installing it with the "Joomla Discover" core component.
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How to Find the ID of a Joomla User
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 04 August 2020 04 August 2020
One of the questions from our customers this week was how to find the ID number of a Joomla user by their surname.
You will unlikely need it in your day to day Joomla administration. Occasionally though a Joomla user ID number may come in handy. In this tip, I will show you how to find the ID number of a Joomla user by their surname.
How to Enroll Students in the Required Classes in OSCampus
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 29 July 2020 29 July 2020
This week one customer asked how to offer a student an OSCampus course only after they finished another course. The idea was to give students access to courses one after another one instead of to all of them.
OSCampus doesn't offer such functionality. However, if you have only a handful of courses you can do the job by manually deploying Joomla's core Access Control List:
- Create new user groups, for example, "Class 01", "Class 02", etc
- Create a new access level for each of the new group, for example, access level named "Class 01" for the user group "Class 01", access level "Class 02" for the user group "Class 02" etc
- Assign required access levels to the required classes
- Assign required students to access required classes when needed.
Now to allow student access to their next class, all you will have to do is assigning the student to the user group assigned to this next class.
Let's take a look at this process in more detail.
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Introducing the Joomla 4 Media Manager Features
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 July 2020 28 July 2020
Over the last year, we've talked a lot about the upcoming Joomla 4. If you missed any of those updates, you can check out the ultimate guide to Joomla 4.
The Joomla team has been working really hard and Joomla 4 is currently at the beta phase.
So, the stable version is still a way to go. But, because we get questions, we want to keep our readers informed about the progress of Joomla 4.
In this blog post, we'll take a look at the new Media Manager in Joomla 4.
Introduction to Web Assets in Joomla 4
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 28 July 2020 28 July 2020
One of my favorite improvements in Joomla 4 is the "Web assets" feature. It allows you to load a set of JavaScript and CSS files in a specific order with a single call.
Let's say you want to load CSS or JavaScript files that depend on other files. For example, you may want to load a JavaScript file that depends on jQuery being loaded first.
In this short tutorial, I will show you how the "Web assets" feature of Joomla 4 works.
How to Create a Joomla Site for Online Events with JCal Pro
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 26 July 2020 26 July 2020
One of the questions from our customers this week was how to create an online events site with JCal Pro.
JCal Pro is the best Joomla extension for managing calendaring events. It offers simplicity, flexibility, a robust feature set, and gorgeous templates to fit virtually any Joomla site.
Creating an online events Joomla site with JCal Pro takes four steps:
- Install JCal Pro.
- Create required JCal Pro events.
- Enable events registrations.
- Set the events display.
Let's take a look at these steps in more detail.
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Align a Name and Phone Number in Joomlashack's Community Template
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 21 July 2020 21 July 2020
One of the benefits of using Joomla CMS is its being an Open Source system. This means that you always have a ton of options to securely override the core files responsible for the design and layout of your Joomla site.
This week, one of the customers asked us how to customize the core Contact component. In particular, they wanted to customize the list of contacts in a category of contacts. By default, it displays the mobile number of the contact above the details of the contact.
The customer asked how to align them in the Joomlashack Community template. Let's take a look at how to achieve this with a future-proof template override.
Read more: Align a Name and Phone Number in Joomlashack's Community Template