The Joomlashack Blog
The Wright Framework Now Has an Improved Mobile Menu
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 11 December 2018 11 December 2018
Joomlashack's Wright framework now has an improved mobile menu system. If your site navigation includes submenus, they will be hidden until you click on the new toggle button. This feature was requested by a good number of users.
This feature works for menus in the following template positions:
- The toolbar
- The menu
- The bottom menu.
These are the module positions that you will find in all Joomlashack templates.
In this post, I'll give you an overview of how this mobile feature works.
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CSS Grid #18: How to Build a Dropdown Menu
- Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya
- Published: 10 December 2018 10 December 2018
CSS Grid allows you to build complex user interfaces with ease. User experience with a browser-based interface very often starts from a navigation element.
This tutorial will apply some of the techniques you have already learned in this series to build a drop-down menu. You will build it for a fictional online sports store. Hopefully, it will help you to strengthen your knowledge.
Shack Slides Allows You to Hide Important Elements on Mobile Devices
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 December 2018 07 December 2018
Shack Slides now has new features for mobile users. It now allows you to hide from your site mobile viewer the following:
- Your slides titles
- Your slides descriptions
- Your slideshow navigation bar
- Your slideshow Previous and Next navigation buttons.
It will help you improve user experience of your site visitors when they view your slideshows on their mobile devices.
You can now make your slideshows more compact for them. In this blog post, I will give you a brief tour of these new features.
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How Do Joomla Menu Levels Work?
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 07 December 2018 07 December 2018
Joomla menus allow you to create different levels. This is essential for creating any kind of sub-menu such as a dropdown menu.
Sometimes it's necessary to show only one or two levels from the menu. For example, you may show the top level links in the main navigation and sub-links in a sidebar navigation.
In this post, we'll show you how to display only specific menu levels in a sidebar module.
Fabrik and Custom Joomla User Registration Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 December 2018 06 December 2018
Fabrik is a wonderfully powerful and flexible Joomla extension. In a previous tutorial, we showed you how to use Fabrik to create a contact form.
In this post, you are going to use Fabrik to create your own Joomla user registration form.
How to Create Template Overrides for Joomla Plugins
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 05 December 2018 05 December 2018
Despite being tremendously useful, template overrides for plugins are a type of override that is barely known in Joomla community.
There is no way to create this type of override from the Joomla backend. It is a completely manual process. Template overrides for plugins are intended for extensions that output content in frontend. This means just a few plugins are ready for this feature.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to easily create plugin overrides in Joomla.
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6 Essential Health Checks for Your Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 December 2018 05 December 2018
Over the last few years, we've helped a lot of people fix problems with their Joomla sites.
Although the problems sound different, we've found that many can be fixed with only six solutions.
If you implement all six, you'll have a safer, healthier and faster Joomla site.
Here are those six solutions.
JCal Pro Tutorials - Set up a Joomla Calendar
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 December 2018 04 December 2018
JCal Pro is the premier events calendar for Joomla and has been actively developed since 2006. It comes with gorgeous and responsive templates that will nicely fit with any site and any color scheme.
In this list of useful resources, you will learn whether it's right for your site, where to download it, and how to fully take advantage of all its features.
The 5 Best Joomla Calendar Extensions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 December 2018 04 December 2018
If so, you have a lot of choices available. There are over 160 extensions listed in the "Calendars & Events" directory on Joomla.org.
So, if you want a powerful calendar to show on your Joomla site, you'll need to choose from one of these extensions. Here's our ranking of the 5 best Joomla calendar and events extensions. We tested dozens of these extensions and compared their pros and cons.
How to Search and Replace Across a Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 December 2018 03 December 2018
Sometimes you have text, an image, a URL, or even code that appears on many places throughout your Joomla site. Normally, replacing them is a slow process:
- You open one page.
- You make a change.
- You close the page.
- You repeat this process for another page and so on.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to run a search and replace across your Joomla site in one fell swoop.