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Introduction to Frontend Event Registrations in JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 November 2019 07 November 2019
In JCal Pro you can register event participants in two ways:
- Via Joomla administrator panel. Your site administrators would create the registrations via the "JCal Pro: Registrations" administrative page.
- Via the frontend. JCal Pro event participants will register themselves from the event's frontend page.
In this blog post, I'll show you how the second use case works.
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Displaying a JCal Pro Event Address without Its Google Map
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 November 2019 04 November 2019
JCal Pro is an extremely flexible Joomla calendaring extension. One of our customers asked how to display an event address without displaying its Google Map.
Normally, to display an address of your JCal Pro event you would use the JCal Pro built-in "Locations" feature. You would create a location and then add it to your event or events.
But displaying a JCal Pro event location means displaying the location's Google Map. What if you wish to display the address of the event as text, without its Google Map?
In this blog post, I will show you how to achieve this.
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How to Autopublish JCal Pro Events via Frontend
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 October 2019 31 October 2019
JCal Pro allows you to create and automatically publish events by a designated person via your Joomla site frontend.
Here is the workflow of this task:
- Your designated JCal Pro events autopublisher logs into your Joomla site frontend.
- They click a link, for example, "Add New Event".
- They see a page for JCal Pro event creation and create a JCal Pro event.
- Their event gets published with the "Unapproved" status at your JCal Pro backend control panel. It also gets published at the frontend for a logged-in JCal Pro moderator, if you created one.
- At the same time, JCal Pro notifies about this event your site super administrator and your JCal Pro moderator, if you created one.
- Either your site super administrator at the backend or your JCal Pro events moderator at the frontend approves the event.
- The event gets displayed to the public in your JCal Pro calendar.
In this blog post, I will show you how to set up this workflow.
Harden the Security of Your Backups Created with Akeeba Backup
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 October 2019 29 October 2019
Akeeba Backup is one of the most popular Joomla extensions. It helps you to backup your Joomla site in case a disaster strikes. We love it. So do our customers.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to bring the security of your backups to the next level. You will learn how to store backups you created with Akeeba Backup extension outside of your Joomla site.
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Upload Your Site Backups to Google Drive Automatically with Akeeba Backup
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 October 2019 29 October 2019
One of our customers asked how to automate uploading backups of their Joomla site to Google Drive. They were creating backups with the popular Akeeba Backup Joomla extension.
Having a spare copy of your Joomla site backup outside your web server is a very good practice. You will always have a backup of your site, whatever happens to your hosting.
In this blog post, you will learn how to set Akeeba Backup Pro to automatically upload your Joomla site backups to Google Drive.
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How to Translate Frontend Labels of a Shack Form
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 October 2019 25 October 2019
Shack Forms Pro allows you to display the labels of the fields of your forms at the frontend of your Joomla site in languages other than English.
This is a two-step process.
- Install and enable a Joomla language pack for your preferred language.
- Create labels for the fields of the required Shack Forms module in your required language.
Let's take a look at this process in more detail.
How to View and Search Shack Forms Submissions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 October 2019 24 October 2019
Shack Forms is the best Joomla form extension. You can use it to set a required form in seconds and immediately start collecting data from your Joomla site visitors.
But Shack Forms allows you to quickly and efficiently view and search the submitted data. You can perform those tasks via your Shack Forms Pro component.
Let's take a look at how you can view and search Shack Forms submissions.
How to Hide the "Free" Class Label in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 October 2019 21 October 2019
One of our customers asked how to hide the "Free" class label seen next to a class name under the "Table of Contents" tab. You can achieve this with a simple CSS tweak.
In this blog post, I will show you how to apply this CSS tweak and keep it intact after your next OSCampus upgrade.
How to Add Shack Forms Fields to Your Mailchimp Audience
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2019 18 October 2019
You can integrate Shack Forms with Mailchimp to build an email list. But Shack Forms allows you to add more than just the subscriber's email address, name and a phone number to the Mailchimp database of your email list subscribers.
You can add in it any piece of data as you see fit. And the more data you have for each of your email list subscribers, the more tailored and targeted your email marketing campaigns you send to them could become.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to add a Shack Forms field to your Mailchimp email list.
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How to Troubleshoot Shack Forms Emails Not Being Received
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 October 2019 17 October 2019
Shack Forms is one of the most popular forms extensions in Joomla. Shack Forms can automatically send emails to the form submitters and to your site administrators.
However, when you start sending out emails, things can become complex. You have to deal with mail servers, hosting companies, Gmail, Outlook, spam filters and many other variables.
You may find out that for some reason your Shack Forms emails are not being received.
Here is a quick guide to troubleshooting this issue.
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