The Joomlashack Blog
Google Released Covid-19 Related Font Awesome Icons
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 March 2020 26 March 2020
Are you looking for icons to communicate good hygiene and social distancing in your existing or upcoming Joomla site? If the answer is yes, then you will be interested to hear that Google just released Font Awesome 5.13.
This release focuses purely on Covid-19 related icons. Their goal is to help your site communicate some of the most vital things your site visitors and customers must do to protect themselves and their communities.
In this blog post, you will take a look at some of these icons which are free. You will also learn how to use them in your Joomla site.
Read more: Google Released Covid-19 Related Font Awesome Icons
Adding Text Between Fields in Shack Forms Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 March 2020 24 March 2020
"Shack Forms Pro" is one of the most popular Joomla extensions. It allows you to quickly and easily build nicely looking forms for your Joomla site even if you don't know how to code.
In some scenarios, you may want to mix the fields of your form with some text. In this blog post, I'll show you how to do this.
Dealing with the "Call to undefined method" Error in OSMap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 March 2020 23 March 2020
One of OSMap users faced the "Call to undefined method Joomla\CMS\Document\XmlDocument::addCustomTag()" error. You may see it trying to view either the "XML" or "Images" sitemaps.
The most likely reason for this error may be one of the 3-rd party system plugins you installed. In this blog post, I'll show you how to find which one of them is the source of the error.
Read more: Dealing with the "Call to undefined method" Error in OSMap
Recordings of Joomlashack's Online Joomla User Groups
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2020 18 March 2020
During March, April and May 2020 we ran a series of weekly, online Joomla user groups.
This was a project that we ran wile many stuck in lockdown at home.
We were lucky enough to have speakers that included George Wilson, Randy Carey, Peter van Westen, Vic Drover, Andy Miller and Johan Janssens.
Read more: Recordings of Joomlashack's Online Joomla User Groups
Say Hello to Shack Error Notify
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2020 18 March 2020
Shack Error Notify is the 29th extension available at Joomlashack.
Yes, you read that correctly. Joomlashack Everything Club members now get access to 29 extensions. And we've got an additional extension to be released next week!
Shack Error Notify will rescue you from serious site problems. This plugin will send automatic notifications if anything goes wrong with your Joomla site.
We have used this plugin at Joomlashack for years, and it has saved us on many occasions. It is easy to miss site errors, but Shack Error Notify catches them all! You will get an email describing what went wrong on your site, and showing you where to fix it.
Click here to get Shack Error Notify, or click here to join the Everything Club.
How We Are NOT Responding to COVID-19
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2020 18 March 2020
In the last couple of weeks, my inbox has been over-flowing with COVID-19 emails:
- "Hey, it's the hotel you visited five years ago. This is how we are responding to the virus."
- "We sold you some software in 2012. Here is some bland work-at-home advice."
- "We have no idea why we're emailing you. But our boss told us to send out a virus update."
To be honest, I don't have any great advice at all. We're trying to navigate day-to-day, just like you are. Events are moving so fast that even good advice today is likely to be out-of-date tomorrow.
Listen to the Joomla Podcasts from Watchful and JoomCast
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 09 March 2020 09 March 2020
If you are a podcast fan, you can find three active Joomla podcasts at the moment.
I'll start with a little self-promotion. One of the three is the Watchful podcast that features myself and Vic from Watchful. Our interviews focus on Joomla agencies: how they manage products, find customers, manage their cashflow and so on.
Another is JoomCast and it's a collaboration between Naveen from Joomdev and Tim from Basic Joomla. They interview people from around the Joomla world.
Also, if you speak Spanish, there's also Mastermind Joomla from Carlos Camara, who gave a great session at last year's Joomlashack Conference.
Read more: Listen to the Joomla Podcasts from Watchful and JoomCast
Your Beginners Guide to Multi-lingual Joomla Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 February 2020 24 February 2020
If you would like your Joomla site to communicate in multiple languages, you need a multi-lingual Joomla site. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install a multi-lingual Joomla site with dummy content and localized menus.
Once you finish the installation, you will then be able to replace the dummy content for every language with your own.
Here is the process in a nutshell:
- Get ready for Joomla installation. Firstly, you want to upload and unpack the latest Joomla installation pack to your server and create a database for your Joomla site.
- Run the installation. Then you want to run the installation process for a multi-lingual Joomla site.
- Translate the dummy Joomla content and add new content for every required language.
Let's take a look at this process in more detail.
Read more: Your Beginners Guide to Multi-lingual Joomla Sites
OSMap Has a New Cache With Multilingual Support
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 06 February 2020 06 February 2020
OSMap Pro is now even faster! We've released a new version with a faster caching system that supports multilingual sites.
Almost four years ago, we added a caching system to OSMap Pro. That system increased the site load speed by 1000% for sites with large sitemaps. But, there were some issues with it:
- The caching didn't work well for multilingual sites.
- The caching codebase was complex and proved to be difficult to maintain.
So starting with OSMap Pro 4.2.25, you'll find a new and improved caching system.
How to Delete Articles from the Joomla Trash
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 January 2020 31 January 2020
Joomla allows you to delete articles, but in case you made a mistake, it doesn't permanenently delete them unless you to take another step.
Joomla's trash can is similar to those on PC's and Mac's. Sending items to the trash can is an action that can be undone.
In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to remove articles from the trash can and delete them forever.