The Joomlashack Blog
OSMap Allows You to Add No Index for Joomla URLs
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 November 2018 19 November 2018
OSMap is the way to create a sitemap in Joomla. It allows you to create a sitemap so that search engines can find your content.
OSMap Pro also allows you to make Google ignore content included in your sitemap. If you have a menu item or article set to "No index, no follow", Google bots won't crawl and won't index that link.
What are Multilingual Associations in Joomla?
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 16 November 2018 16 November 2018
Joomla has a component called "Multilingual Associations". This will make your life much easier if you build multi-lingual Joomla sites.
Before this component was added, there was no easy place to manage all of your translation items. Every translated item had to be found and edited individually. With the Multilingual Associations component, you will be able to edit all your translations in a single interface. This will save you a lot of time and energy.
5 Courses to Get You Started with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 November 2018 16 November 2018
There is a common question we get from Joomla beginners who just joined Joomlashack.
They want to know how to start with Joomla and what kind of video classes they should take.
Here's an overview of 5 video classes to get you started with building, maintaining, securing and speeding up your Joomla site. All of these courses are available to Joomlashack Everything Club members as part of Joomlashack University.
Announcing the New Joomlashack University
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2018 15 November 2018
Our aim at Joomlashack is to help you improve your skills and grow your business.
Yes, it's helpful if you know Joomla administration, design and development. But it's also helpful to have complementary skills that give you access to the web world around Joomla.
So today we're relaunching Joomlashack University to include classes on all the topics you need to suceed. The new Joomlashack University has over 1,400 videos on everything from Joomla SEO and Security to extension development to Bootstrap 4.
The lessons include design as Bootstrap, LESS and SASS. The lessons also focus on development abilities such as PHP, Javascript and Git.
Introduction to Joomla Multilingual Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2018 15 November 2018
Would you like to know how to create Joomla sites with content in multiple languages? Joomla really can build professional-quality multilingual sites.
But before you begin, there are some key questions to answer:
- What do multilingual sites look like?
- Can I trust Joomla with my multilingual site?
- Are there any advantages or disadvantages to multilingual sites?
In this introductory blog post, we'll answer those questions. Let's start by seeing some examples of real multilingual Joomla sites.
3 Different Approaches to Multilingual Joomla Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2018 15 November 2018
In our "Introduction to Joomla Multilingual Sites" you learned what multilingual sites look like, what companies or celebrities use them and their advantages and disadvantages.
In this blog post, you are going to review different approaches to building multilingual sites. There are many different ways to build a multilingual Joomla site, but these are three of the most common:
- Approach #1: Use Joomla's core features
- Approach #2: Use different websites for each language
- Approach #3: Replace Joomla's core features with a third party extension
The choice is not always straightforward. So in this post, you'll take a close look at all three approaches. You then will learn which of the three we recommend.
Read more: 3 Different Approaches to Multilingual Joomla Sites
3 Best Options to Prevent Fake Joomla Registrations
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 12 November 2018 12 November 2018
One of our customers has been getting a ton of fake automated registrations on their Joomla site. Those spam bots clutter your genuine web traffic. Deleting fake accounts they create is also a very time-consuming task.
Here are the 3 best options to prevent fake Joomla registrations:
- The core reCAPTCHA plugins.
- Double opt-in registration.
- OSpam-a-not extension.
In this post, I will give you a brief tour of these options to put the fake registrations to stop.
Read more: 3 Best Options to Prevent Fake Joomla Registrations
How to Create Hidden Menu Items in Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 08 November 2018 08 November 2018
Since the beginning of Joomla, users have created hidden menu links. This is a neccesary workaround because menu links control many of the features on Joomla pages - even pages that don't show in menus.
One very common use case is to create links to special sales pages and landing pages. Sometimes we need a menu link to set up the page, but we don't want that link to be easily visible.
"Add Menu Title" is a menu option that makes it really easy to hide links. Here's how it works ...
CSS Grid #15. The justify-content and align-content Properties
- Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya
- Published: 07 November 2018 07 November 2018
In the previous CSS Grid tutorial, you learned about the align and justify properties to center and align items within a grid on the horizontal and vertical axes.
However, there are cases in which the total size of the grid is less than the size of the grid container. This happens because all items within the grid and the container itself are sized with fixed values (px, em, rem).
In such cases, it is necessary to align the tracks themselves, that is the whole grid, in order to exploit and fill up that additional empty space. In such a situation, you can make use of the align-content and justify-content properties. This is what I will explain in this tutorial.
Read more: CSS Grid #15. The justify-content and align-content Properties
Joomlashack Templates Support Microdata for Joomla Articles
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 05 November 2018 05 November 2018
We're happy to announce that the Wright framework now supports microdata for Joomla articles. If you are using the Wright template or any of our commercial templates, you don't need to tweak the code anymore to add microdata.
The major search engines use microdata to better understand the content of your site. Microdata allows search engines to easily see the key information for each article, including the main image, the author, the publication date, and so on.
To take advantage of this new feature, update to Wright 3.6.8. If you use any of our commercial templates, update your template to the version released this week.
Read more: Joomlashack Templates Support Microdata for Joomla Articles