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What Layouts Are Available in Shack Article Layouts?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 May 2020 07 May 2020
Layouts are at the center of the "Shack Article Layouts" Joomla extension. You can neatly display your Joomla articles with this module in one of the following five grid layouts:
- "Blocks"
- "Cover"
- "Default"
- "Magazine"
- "Wide".
Each of them offers your Joomla site visitors a unique preset design. Each of them, except the "Wide" one, allows you to nicely layout your Joomla articles in a neat grid with more than one column.
Let's take a brief glance at the five layouts of the "Shack Article Layouts" module.
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Shack Article Layouts is Now Live at Joomlashack
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 May 2020 06 May 2020
We are happy to announce that Shack Article Layouts is now available for Joomlashack members. This is the 31st extension available at Joomlashack.
Yes, you read that correctly. Joomlashack Everything Club members now get access to 31 extensions!
"Shack Article Layouts" allows you to display your articles in many attractive layouts. This extension is perfect for creating homepages, or landing pages for blogs, portfolios, testimonials, and other content.
You have the freedom to choose how to display your articles, as well as what to display from the articles. You can display images from articles, some or part of the article's content, links, and read more buttons included in the article, or authors, dates, and so much more. Additionally, you can pick from several stylish layouts and organize the number of columns and rows to fit your needs.
Click here to get "Shack Article Layouts", or click here to join the Everything Club.
How to Send Shack Forms Entries to Google Sheets
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 May 2020 05 May 2020
Shack Forms Pro is the easiest and most powerful way to add forms to your Joomla site.
With Shack Forms, you can integrate your Joomla forms with Google Sheets. If you enable this integration, every time someone submits a Shack Form, their data will automatically be sent to your Google Sheet.
This integration can be incredibly useful if you need to share or analyze the data sent via your forms. Google Sheets has all the power of a spreadsheet, and can also make your data pop with colorful charts and graphs.
This guide will show you how to send Shack Forms entries to Google Sheets.
How to Update Your Joomla 4 Beta Test Site
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 01 May 2020 01 May 2020
Are you testing new features of Joomla 4 and would like to know how to keep it up-to-date with the latest developed version? The technical term for the latest Joomla version that is still under development is "nightly build".
But here is a small issue: by default Joomla 4 installation doesn't set the Update component to Joomla nightly builds. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to set your Joomla 4 Beta 1 Update server to the latest nightly builds.
Let's get started.
Displaying Different Shack Forms for Different Pages
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 27 April 2020 27 April 2020
One of the questions we had from a customer last week was how to display different Shack Forms on different pages. Shack Forms is a very popular Joomla extension for building forms. Once you install it on your Joomla site, you will have a default Shack Forms module. But what if you would like to have different forms for different pages?
This can be easily achieved by duplicating the default module. You then customize each of the duplicated modules as you see fit to meet your Joomla site requirements. In this blog post, I will show you how to do that.
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How Joomla Freelancers Get Paid Faster
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 21 April 2020 21 April 2020
Do you know what’s great about being a freelancer building Joomla websites? The convenience technology can provide, such as Joomla templates. Do you know what’s NOT great about being a freelancer building Joomla websites? Getting stiffed by a customer.
In fact, freelancers everywhere are getting stiffed by their customers (just check out the World's Longest Invoice). You didn’t become a Joomla freelancer to be in the business of collections. If only there was an equivalent to Joomla templates for getting paid!
Although there is no official template, there are in fact specific steps you can take to secure your chances of receiving money when owed. In this blog post, you will learn 7 ways to help you get paid faster.
Customizing the Date Format in Shack Article Manager
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 20 April 2020 20 April 2020
Among other useful data, Shack Article Manager displays the dates of Joomla's articles. One of our customers recently asked us how to customize the dates format.
By default, Shack Article Manager displays dates in the format of "Year-Month-Day". With Joomla's brilliant "Language Overrides" tool, you can easily change this format to, for example, "Day-Month-Year". Let's take a look at how to do just that.
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Displaying Checkboxes in Shack Forms Horizontally
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 14 April 2020 14 April 2020
Shack Forms in one of the best form building extensions for Joomla. By default, your Shack Forms module will display checkboxes of the "Checkboxes group" field vertically.
If your checkbox group field has more than four or five checkboxes, your Shack Form may look a bit overstretched vertically.
To make it look tidier and more compact, you may want to display checkboxes horizontally. In this blog post, I'll show you how to do that by splitting the checkboxes into a few columns.
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Creating Multiple Private Calendars with JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 March 2020 31 March 2020
One of our customers asked how to give each Joomla user a JCal Pro calendar only with events they created themselves from the frontend. JCal Pro calls such events private events.
In this blog post, I will walk you step by step through creating multiple private calendars with JCal Pro.
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Say Hello to Shack User Switching
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 March 2020 27 March 2020
Shack User Switching is the 30th extension available at Joomlashack.
Yes, you read that correctly. Joomlashack Everything Club members now get access to 30 extensions.
Shack User Switching allows you to test any user account on your sites, without compromising their passwords. With one click, you can browse your site and see exactly what your users see. This is a safe and useful way to troubleshoot problems for your site's users.
We use this plugin at Joomlashack. Whenever a user reports an issue with their account, we can use Shack User Switching to find the solution.
Click here to get Shack User Switching, or click here to join the Everything Club.