The Joomlashack Blog
How to Add More Languages to a Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 February 2018 27 February 2018
In the "Installing a New Multilingual Joomla Site" tutorial, you learned how to create a new multilingual Joomla website. This is the easiest method because Joomla does so many things automatically for you.
However, not all of us are going to be lucky enough to be in that situation. Some will need to translate an existing unilingual website. That is what you will learn by the end of this tutorial.
Why the www. Domain Mismatch Causes Joomla Errors
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 February 2018 23 February 2018
Many website builders experience problems with their site for a surprising reason: the www version of your site and the non-www version are the not the same address.
This is not a Joomla-specific issue, but it can cause problems with Joomla sites.
This issue can manifest itself as login failures, WYSIWYG editors failing to load or failing to save content, javascript execution halted with error messages.
In this blog post, you will learn what causes the www domain mismatch and what to do to avoid it.
Read more: Why the www. Domain Mismatch Causes Joomla Errors
Introducing the Joomlashack Redesign
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 21 February 2018 21 February 2018
We are happy to announce that we launched a new Joomlashack design this week.
In Joomlashack we strive to keep things simple. So we aimed at making the new design as minimalistic as we possibly could.
In this blog post, you will learn what the new design is, and what changes you'll see as a Joomlashack user. We'll also explain how we executed the redesign with only five minutes of downtime.
How to Embed Google Maps in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 February 2018 21 February 2018
Google Maps are some of the trickiest things to embed in any Joomla website. Or, at least they used to be. That's no longer the case, thanks to the OSEmbed extension.
Using OSEmbed, You can embed Google Maps into your Joomla site with just a URL. This feature is so cool that it's not even available in WordPress, which is famous for easy embeds.
How to Make Your Joomla Content Look More Interesting and Exciting
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 February 2018 20 February 2018
If you followed "The Easiest Workflow to Add Your Joomla Content" tutorial, you learned and practiced the easiest and fastest way to add content to your Joomla site. You ended that tutorial by creating about a dozen articles on your site.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make those articles look more interesting and more exciting. Specifically, you will work on formatting the text, adding images and links, and choosing the best options for your articles.
At the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to do the following:
- Format the text of your Joomla articles.
- Add images to your content.
- Add links to different articles and to other sites.
- Choose the best publishing, article, and metadata options for your articles.
Read more: How to Make Your Joomla Content Look More Interesting and Exciting
How to Add Font Awesome or Bootstrap Icons to Your Joomla Menu
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 February 2018 14 February 2018
Icons can make your Joomla site look much more professional and appealing. You have now tons of cool icons in Font Awesome and Bootstrap libraries to choose from.
Your site main menu is one of the first places your visitors will pay their attention to. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a Font Awesome or Bootstrap icon to your Joomla main menu. Even if you don't know any code.
Read more: How to Add Font Awesome or Bootstrap Icons to Your Joomla Menu
New Feature in OSMeta: Meta Description Limit Increased to 320 Characters
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 February 2018 02 February 2018
In this blog post, you will take a look at this new feature. Beginners to Joomla metadata will also learn what metadata is and how to use it.
Read more: New Feature in OSMeta: Meta Description Limit Increased to 320 Characters
Joomlashack Has Acquired jInbound for Joomla Marketing Automation
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 January 2018 31 January 2018
Joomlashack creates extensions and templates to make your Joomla sites better.
Over the last 11 years, the Joomlashack team have built popular and powerful extensions including OSMap, OSEmbed, OSMeta and OSCampus.
Joomlashack has also successfully acquired JCal Pro and Tabs and Sliders from other developers.
Today we’re delighted to announce another acquisition that allows Joomlashack to move closer to being a one-stop destination for all your Joomla needs.
Read more: Joomlashack Has Acquired jInbound for Joomla Marketing Automation
Introducing New Reports in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 January 2018 31 January 2018
OSCampus is the best and easiest choice for a Learning Management System in Joomla. It's the software we use to support 10,000's of users at OSTraining.com.
The latest version of OSCampus adds great new reporting features.
In this post, we'll show you how the OSCampus statistics and reporting features work.
Sarah Watz from Pixpro Labs Interviewing Steve Burge
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 January 2018 23 January 2018
This week, Joomlashack.com and OSTraining.com owner Steve Burge took part in an online live show with Sarah Watz from Pixpro Labs. Sarah runs her weekly Live Show to help Joomla business owners learn from others and make their businesses more successful.
In his candid interview with Sarah, Steve lays bare how he moved his career from a teacher to a web designer and eventually to online training provider. You will also hear about one business decision that helped him turn Joomlashack from being on the verge of bankruptcy to a steadily growing Joomla extensions business.
Read more: Sarah Watz from Pixpro Labs Interviewing Steve Burge