The Joomlashack Blog
The Beginners Guide to Joomla Metadata
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 May 2019 22 May 2019
In "The Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla's Aliases" you learned how Joomla's URLs are actually set up in your Joomla site. Now it's time to talk about Joomla metadata.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to control what appears in Google search results when people find your site. We'll show you how to modify Joomla's meta title and meta description.
We highly recommend you download a copy of OSMeta before trying this tutorial. OSMeta is the best way to manage your Joomla metadata.
How to Control Joomla Metadata with OSMeta
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 May 2019 21 May 2019
If you wish to update titles or descriptions of your Joomla content items, you normally need to open up each of them one-by-one. The more content items you may want to edit, the more time-consuming this process becomes.
A Joomla extension called "OSMeta" will make this task much easier for you. I'm going to show you how to use it to quickly update all the titles and descriptions for your Joomla content items in one screen.
Say Hello to Shack Article Manager, our 28th Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 May 2019 15 May 2019
Over the last few years, we've been adopting extensions here at Joomlashack.
These extensions include Tabs and Sliders, JCal Pro, jInbound, Shack Forms, Shack Toolbox and Shack Open Graph amongst others. These are powerful and mature extensions that users love.
Joomlashack users have given us many suggestions for other extensions to adopt. One idea has been suggested far more than any other: User Article Manager. This extension was really popular in early Joomla versions. It allowed you to accept articles from the frontend of your site. It also allowed writers to manage their articles without logging into the Joomla admin.
Read more: Say Hello to Shack Article Manager, our 28th Extension
What Famous Sites Are Using Joomla?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 May 2019 13 May 2019
We're often asked about famous organizations or people who use Joomla for their website.
This is important information for Joomla people. When you are trying to win new customers, it helps to say "Roger Federer uses Joomla" or "Nintendo relies on Joomla".
So we created an overview of high-profile users. The list is completely up-to-date for 2019.
How to Fix Error 1045 in phpMyAdmin
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 May 2019 13 May 2019
After installing a local WAMP server and trying to access your phpMyAdmin, you may encounter the error:
#1045 Access Denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
This may happen if your root@localhost MySQL database user was not granted the necessary rights to access the database. Or if you provided a wrong password.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to solve this error for the WAMP local server using phpMyAdmin.
How to Update Joomlashack Templates From Joomla Admin Area
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 10 May 2019 10 May 2019
If you use a Joomlashack template, please consider updating to the latest release. Why do we ask this? The latest versions of Joomlashack templates now use the Joomla update system.
This means that you can update templates with one-click from your admin area. This also means you can easily get the latest bug-fixes, security updates, and new features for your Joomlashack template.
Read more: How to Update Joomlashack Templates From Joomla Admin Area
How to Fix Joomla folders and files permissions with Admin Tools
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 08 May 2019 08 May 2019
A common issue with server migrations, components installations, and site security in Joomla is wrong folders and files permissions. If you are new to Joomla folders and file permissions, please visit our tutorial How to Change Joomla Folder and File Permissions.
In this tutorial, however, you will learn how to fix wrong files and folders permissions using free Admin Tools Core. This popular component is a powerful way to quickly correct any folder and file permissions you may encounter.
Read more: How to Fix Joomla folders and files permissions with Admin Tools
How to Fix Broken Joomla User Groups
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 May 2019 01 May 2019
Joomla's user groups can be really powerful.
However, it's also possible to cause problems for yourself by making errors while setting up the user groups.
One Joomlashack member remained a super administrator and able to log-in to their site, but they lost the ability to see the administrator menu links and edit their site.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to rescue yourself if your super administrator account no longer has the permissions it should.
How to Integrate MailChimp with Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 May 2019 01 May 2019
One of our Shack Forms customers asked how to integrate Shack Forms (formerly known as "Perfect AJAX Popup Contact Form") and MailChimp.
In this blog post, you will learn how to create a Shack Form to sign up its submitters to a MailChimp list.
Want to Test Our New Extension: Shack Article Manager?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 April 2019 25 April 2019
Over the last few years, we've been adopting extensions here at Joomlashack.
These extensions include Tabs and Sliders, JCal Pro, jInbound, Shack Forms, Shack Toolbox and Shack Open Graph amongst others. These are powerful and mature extensions that users love.
Joomlashack users have given us many suggestions for other extensions to adopt. One idea has been suggested far more than any other: User Article Manager. You can see some of the suggestions in the comments on this post about User Article Manager. Thanks in particular to Joe Sonne for repeatedly encouraging us.
User Article Manager was really popular in early Joomla versions. It allowed you to accept articles from the frontend of your site. It also allowed writers to manage their articles without logging into the Joomla admin.
Read more: Want to Test Our New Extension: Shack Article Manager?