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How to Use Joomla Fields - the Complete Tutorial!
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 October 2018 23 October 2018
Custom fields are very important and useful Joomla feature.
Using Joomla fields, you can add many different types of fields, including Calendars, Checkboxes, Color pickets, Lists, Images and much more. You can read our overview of all 15 field types.
These Joomla fields can improve core parts of Joomla including articles, contact forms, users. You'll also find extensions that support fields including our own OSDownloads.
In this introduction, I'll show you how Joomla fields work.
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Shack Locations Offers 50 Custom Styles for Joomla Maps
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 October 2018 19 October 2018
One of the exclusive features in Shack Locations Pro is the 50 custom map styles. By default, your map directory's maps look rather boring. They don't have to be.
In the Pro version, you have 50 custom Google Map styles. They look pretty cool. You can apply any of them to match your site design without any coding skills. In this blog post, I will give you a tour of all of those 50 styles.
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How to Add Video or Audio to a Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2018 18 October 2018
In this Joomla media tutorial, we'll show you how to embed video and audio into a Joomla article.
By default, Joomla doesn't have much support for multimedia. You can add images, but it's not possible to embed YouTube videos, Soundcloud audio, X / Twitter posts, Instagram photos and other multimedia content.
If you do want to add video or audio to Joomla article, you will need an extension.
How to Add a Joomla Module Position Inside Any Component
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 18 October 2018 18 October 2018
Do you know that you can display Joomla modules inside components? This is possible with only a single line of PHP code.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to display a module inside any component.
Read more: How to Add a Joomla Module Position Inside Any Component
How to Link to PDFs and Other Files in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2018 18 October 2018
One of the things that many people use their websites for is sharing documents. Many organizations produce a large number of documents and need to make them available on their site.
In this tutorial, we'll show you two ways to share PDF documents in Joomla.
How to Integrate OSDownloads with Dropbox
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 October 2018 17 October 2018
A few of our customers asked how to set OSDownloads for a remote files repository with Dropbox.
Dropbox offers fairly generous disk space. Letting your site users download files hosted with Dropbox will also save you bandwidth.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure OSDownloads Free to offer a file hosted with Dropbox for downloads.
For the purpose of this lesson, downloads will be available only to your site registered and logged in members.
CSS Grid #13: The auto-fill and auto-fit Keywords in CSS Grid
- Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya
- Published: 16 October 2018 16 October 2018
Welcome to the 13th tutorial in our series on the CSS Grid.
We are presenting this series to help Joomla developers learn about CSS Grid. The introduction of CSS Grid will be one of the major changes in upcoming Joomla 4.
As you already learned, it is possible to create repeating track patterns with help of the repeat notation.
However, using this method gives you a fixed number of tracks, independently of the content inside each one of them.
The auto-fill and auto-fit keywords will allow you to place as many tracks of the specified size as possible, depending on the size of the viewport. This tutorial will explain the usage of these keywords.
Let’s start!
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CSS Grid #12: The minmax() Function
- Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya
- Published: 08 October 2018 08 October 2018
Welcome to the 12th tutorial in our series on the CSS Grid.
We are presenting this series to help Joomla developers learn about CSS Grid. The introduction of CSS Grid will be one of the major changes in upcoming Joomla 4.
Accordng to the CSS Grid Specification, minmax()
Defines a size range greater than or equal to min and less than or equal to max.
In other words, the minmax() function provides a method to specify the minimum and maximum sizes of a grid track. Thus, the minimax() takes two values as parameters.
This tutorial will explain the use of this CSS function.
Shack Forms Now Has Extra Privacy Options
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 October 2018 04 October 2018
Shack Forms is one of the two or three most popular Joomla forms extensions. But we're always trying to make Shack Forms better.
Several customers asked us to allow more control over the user data collected by Shack Forms so they can comply with Europe's new GDPR laws (click here to read about Joomla and the GDPR).
Starting from Shack Forms 4.0.10, you will now see extra privacy features.
Fixing the Joomla White Screen of Death
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 October 2018 03 October 2018
Sometimes you may change some code on your site or even install an extension, and then you refresh your website and all you see is a blank white screen.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to recover from the White Screen of Death (WSOD).
We'll show you how to find the error that's causing your WSOD, and we'll show you how to fix it.