The Joomlashack Blog
Security Best Practices for your Joomla Agency
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 November 2019 21 November 2019
We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.
This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.
I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel. There's a single playlist for all conference videos.
This presentation is from Vic Drover, the CEO of Watchful. We've written before about how we rely on Watchful here at Joomlashack.
How Joomla Helped Build a Site for Writers, Readers and Publishers
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 November 2019 20 November 2019
We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.
This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.
I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel. There's a single playlist for all conference videos.
This presentation is from Robert Fairhead, from Sydney, Australia. It is his personal case study. This is the first presentation of this type where the speaker talks about one particular website they built, all the ins and outs and the challenges that were involved in building it.
Read more: How Joomla Helped Build a Site for Writers, Readers and Publishers
How to Set up a Quiz in OSCampus Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 November 2019 19 November 2019
If you need to set an online training on your Joomla site, OSCampus Pro is the best tool to do this job. It allows you to set online courses, lessons, and quizzes.
This week we had a customer asking about what a quiz is and how it works. In this blog post, I will explain exactly that.
How to Optimize and Improve the Joomla Admin Area
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 November 2019 18 November 2019
We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.
This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.
I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.
This presentation was from Peter Martin and shows you how to improve the Joomla admin area.
Peter's presentation has 101 different tips for improving your site. If you're a regular Joomla user, you may know several of them, but I 100% guarantee you'll come away from this talk with at least several great new ideas.
Read more: How to Optimize and Improve the Joomla Admin Area
How Debugging a Sitemap Works in OSMap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 November 2019 18 November 2019
Sitemaps help search engines find and index your Joomla site content. OSMap is one of the most popular Joomla sitemap extensions.
If you are having an issue with your sitemap, the "Debug" feature will help uncover problems. In this blog post, I will show you how this feature works.
How to Create Custom 404 Pages in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2019 15 November 2019
By default, Joomla does not provide a 404 page that you can easily create and manage.
A 404 is really useful for guiding your visitors when they visit a broken URL on your site.
I'm going to demonstrate how to create a custom 404 page.
We're going to create an article, add a menu link and then add a little code to a file in your template folder.
Everything You Need to Know About Joomla 4 in One Video
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2019 15 November 2019
We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.
This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.
I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel. There's a single playlist for all conference videos.
The first presentation we've published is from George Wilson, one of Joomla's lead developers. I introduced George and joked that this was the conference keynote. George is such a humble guy that he brushed off that compliment. But there's no doubt that everyone interested in Joomla should watch George's talk.
Read more: Everything You Need to Know About Joomla 4 in One Video
How to Create a Conference With Events in JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 November 2019 14 November 2019
Do you need to create a multi-day conference event for your Joomla site? With the JCal Pro Joomla extension, you can set it in a few clicks.
Our three-day online "Joomlashack Conference 2019" that we held the last week, could be a perfect fit to demonstrate such use case.
- We held this online Joomla conference in 2019 in three days: November 6, November 7, and November 8.
- On November 6, the event started at 12 PM (US Eastern time) and finished at 6 PM.
- On November 7, the event started at 8 AM and finished at 7 PM.
- On November 8, the event once again started at 8 AM and finished at 7 PM.
In this blog post, I will show you how to set a similar multi-day event in JCal Pro.
Read more: How to Create a Conference With Events in JCal Pro
Multi-Column HTML Sitemaps with OSMap Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 November 2019 13 November 2019
If you would like to help search engines to find and index your Joomla site content, you need OSMap Pro. This is your best sitemap Joomla extension.
But by default, OSMap Pro creates an HTML sitemap page with one column layout. What if your HTML sitemap has become extremely long and you would like to keep it more compact?
In this blog post, I will show you how you can split your OSMap Pro HTML sitemap page to several columns.
How to Set Access to JCal Pro Administration Interface
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 November 2019 08 November 2019
JCal Pro is an extremely flexible Joomla calendaring extension. You can allow some of its administration tasks to a frontend user. For example, you can set a user to create JCal Pro events. You can also set a user to moderate created events.
But in JCal Pro you can also allow one of your Joomla users full access to JCal Pro administration interface. This user will be able to log into your Joomla administrator panel and get access to JCal Pro, and to JCal Pro only.
Let me show you how to approach such a setting.
Read more: How to Set Access to JCal Pro Administration Interface