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How to Enable Voting on Joomla Articles
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 17 November 2015 17 November 2015
Did you know that Joomla has a core feature that allow users to rate your content?
The Vote plugin, which allow your users to qualify from 1 to 5 stars the articles.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to enable the voting feature for your articles.
The 7 New Features in Joomla 3.5
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 November 2015 16 November 2015
The final version of Joomla 3.5 is here!
We downloaded Joomla 3.5 and tested all the new features. Here are the seven noticeable changes that you'll find in Joomla 3.5:
You need to migrate to Joomla 3 now
- Written by Oscar Rodas Oscar Rodas
- Published: 10 November 2015 10 November 2015
Joomla! just released their last beta release 3.5.1. We will need to wait a little longer for the stable version.
For those of you keeping your sites up to date, this new release will be a common procedure. However, if you have not been updating your Joomla site, findings reveal the need to upgrade/migrate to the latest stable version. Doing this will eliminate risks from vulnerabilities possibly found in old versions.
Please, don't become part of the statistics.
Why migrate your site?
We cannot explain this better than the good folks from Joomla.org. Read their reasons HERE. In short: you NEED to upgrade your site!
Widgetkit: Google Maps and Image Galleries
- Written by Simon Kloostra Simon Kloostra
- Published: 09 November 2015 09 November 2015
In the first post in this series, I introduced you to Widgetkit, YOOtheme's toolkit for Joomla users.
In this second post, let's see examples of Widgetkit in action.
I'm going to show you how to install Widgetkit, then how to create Google Maps and also how to create a photo gallery from an image folder.
Can You Guess Our Secret, New Joomla Extension?
- Published: 06 November 2015 06 November 2015
We're getting a secret, new Joomla extension ready for release in the next few weeks.
This will bring one of the best-loved WordPress features to Joomla. It will make everyone's Joomla life easier.
Here's a draft version of the logo ...
Can you guess what this extenson will be?
Customise the Joomla Admin With Your Logo and Brand
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 04 November 2015 04 November 2015
By default, the Joomla admin area carries the Joomla logo and brand.
This makes sense for a default Joomla installation, but often you may need to add your customers' branding. After all, your customer may have staff members who know little or nothing about Joomla.
The default administrator template in Joomla 3 is called Isis (insert your own joke here). I'm going to show you how use Isis to re-brand your Joomla admin area.
Read more: Customise the Joomla Admin With Your Logo and Brand
Replay of the Hikashop Webinar with Nicolas Claverie
- Published: 02 November 2015 02 November 2015
Here at OSTraining, we're huge fans of Hikashop. We have an in-depth video class on Hikashop and cover it regularly on this blog.
We think Hikashop is the best way to build a Joomla e-commerce store.
We're delighted to have hosted a webinar with Nicolas Claverie, the lead developer of Hikashop. Nicolas showed us to power up our Hikashop sites and get them ready for the holiday season.
Here is a complete replay of the webinar:
The Beginners Guide to Widgetkit from YOOtheme
- Written by Simon Kloostra Simon Kloostra
- Published: 02 November 2015 02 November 2015
Widgetkit is a very powerful tool provided by the YOOtheme template club.
Actually Widgetkit is not just one tool: it provides a whole set of extensions, bundled into one.
Widgetkit provides photo galleries, slideshows, maps, accordions and much more in one single extension.
Widgetkit 2 was released in January 2015 and is the successor to the original Widgetkit extension, released back in early 2012.
How to Print the User Group in Joomla with PHP
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 30 October 2015 30 October 2015
One of our members asked how to display the user group in the Joomla frontend by using PHP.
In this short tutorial, we'll share the snippet that solves the request.
Create a Custom Joomla 404 Page with 404 Status Code
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 29 October 2015 29 October 2015
Our first 404 tutorial was helpful to a lot of people. However, some users also wanted the status code of the page to be a 404.
This tutorial will show you how to create a custom 404 page with a 404 status code in Joomla. Let's get started...
Read more: Create a Custom Joomla 404 Page with 404 Status Code