Joomlashack Blog and Updates

New Feature: OSDownloads Pro Now Has Custom Fields For User Information

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 17 January 2018 17 January 2018

New Feature: OSDownloads Pro Has Custom Forms

Over the last couple of months we've been working really hard on improvements to OSDownloads.

OSDownloads is the easiest way to add downloads to Joomla.

What are the new features in OSDownloads?

We've added email notifications for downloads, improved the URL structure, and enabled custom fields for download files. Starting today, you can also use custom fields for user submissions, so you can collect more information from visitors who download files.

How to Modify the Date Displayed on K2 Content Items

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 16 January 2018 16 January 2018

One of our Spanish-speaking customers needed to hide the hour and minutes displayed by K2 items.

By default, Joomla content doesn't display the time. So the customer wanted their K2 dates to match the normal Joomla articles on their site.

In this tutorial, you will learn to use a language override to achieve this.

Free Tickets to Meet Joomlashack at JoomlaDay Florida 2018

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 15 January 2018 15 January 2018

Come Meet Joomlashack at Joomla Day Florida

Are you feeling cold this week? The absolute best remedy is a trip to Florida.

Why not plan to meet us in Florida for JoomlaDay Florida in March?

The annual JoomlaDay Florida will be in Tampa, on Friday, March 2nd, Saturday, March 3rd and Sunday, March 4th.

Keep Your Favicon During Joomlashack Template Update

: Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov; Published: 09 January 2018 09 January 2018

We recently introduced the ability to update Joomlashack template from your admin area. The launch was smooth, but there was one reported issue.

When updating, custom favicons were getting overwritten. Not anymore - Joomlashack templates will automatically preserve your favicon when you update the template.

Joomlashack's 2017 Review and 2018 Preview

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 05 January 2018 05 January 2018

Happy New Year, everyone.

Our team took over Joomlashack 18 months ago.

Ever since the takeover, people have been asking me questions like these:

"Is it worth building a Joomla business?"
"Do people still use Joomla?"
"Is anyone creating cool things for Joomla users?"

My answers are always an emphatic "Yes".

In this review, I'll explain why we're really confident for Joomla and Joomlashack in 2018.

Let's first see what happened in 2017, and then we'll see the plans for 2018.

Important: OSDownloads Has New URLs

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 03 January 2018 03 January 2018

OSDownloads is the easiest way to add downloads to Joomla. It makes it easy for you to collect an email address in exchange for downloads.

Over the last couple of months we've been working really hard on improvements to OSDownloads. These changes bring a lot of changes requested by OSDownloads users.

You'll see these changes in OSDownloads Free 1.8 and OSDownloads Pro 1.11.

In this blog post I'm going to give you an overview of the changes you'll see, including new URLs.

Introducing Frontend Statistics in OSCampus

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 20 December 2017 20 December 2017

We believe that OSCampus is the best Learning Management System available for Joomla today.

We are happy to announce the release of OSCampus Pro 1.1.8 which adds another great new feature.

This release adds a new statistics layer to OSCampus.

You will now be able to see all kinds of data on Classes, Lessons, Students. All of these statistics are visible from the frontend of your site.

The New Joomla 4 Administrator Template

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 13 December 2017 13 December 2017

Back in August, we took a first look at Joomla 4.

This was part of a series of posts on Joomla that have also covered the new Media Manager and the new installer.

Overall, I was really impressed with Joomla 4 ... except for the administrator template. The admin screens were not well-designed.

Well, I now have much better news! The first alpha version of Joomla 4 has just arrived, and the Joomla team are making great progress on the admin area.

Elisa Foltyn has a post in the Joomla Magazine with screenshots from the new admin.

How to Add Title and Descriptions to Slides in Shack Slides

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 08 December 2017 08 December 2017

Intro to Shack Slides Titles and Descriptions for Titles

Shack Slides is the best way to create a slideshow in Joomla.

One of Shack Slides many features is the ability to overlay titles and descriptions onto your slide images.

Shack Slides can pull content from many different sources. In this blog post, I'm going to show you how to overlay titles and descriptions whethere you're using Joomla articles, K2 items, or a custom collection in Shack Slides.