The Joomlashack Blog
How to Change Text with Joomla Language Overrides
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 25 February 2025 25 February 2025
Did you know you can change any default text on your Joomla site without touching the language files?
The feature that makes this possible is "Language Overrides". If you're new to "overrides", check out this blog post.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use the Language Overrides Joomla core component to customize your site's text safely.
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How to Embed Facebook Posts in Joomla Articles
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 07 February 2025 07 February 2025
Joomla does not natively support embedding Facebook posts in articles. If you’ve attempted it before, you may have noticed Joomla either removes the embed code or fails to display the post.
The good news? There’s a simple workaround! Follow these steps to successfully embed a Facebook post in your Joomla article.
Use OSDownloads for Marketing Automation in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 January 2025 31 January 2025
If you use Joomla for marketing automation, we have a useful OSDownloads feature that you'll love.
OSDownloads integrates with Mailchimp Groups. This means you can send targeted emails to people downloading a particular file.
For example, if someone downloads OSDownloads, we can automatically send them a series of follow-up emails about that extension.
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A Joomla Guide to PHP Notices, Warnings and Errors
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 June 2021 22 June 2021
Websites inevitably have problems. Whether you're using Joomla or anything else, you'll need to spot and fix problems.
Joomla uses PHP and when PHP has problems, it tries to report them to you. These errors may appear on your site and could be visible to visitors.
In this tutorial, we're going to give you a quick introduction to these errors. We'll explain the different types that might appear on your site and how you can stop them from showing.
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Create a Joomla Category List with Images
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 June 2021 14 June 2021
Joomla offers a menu type "Category List" that allows you to display a category and subcategories in a list format.
Normally a "Category List layout" looks like the image below. That examplle is using Protostar as a template. This default design is not very attractive, is it?
We can do it better. For example, we can add an image next to the title of each subcategory. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to do that, using Joomla's template overrides (click here to see all our template override tutorials).
How to Use the Joomla Private Messages Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 May 2021 13 May 2021
Joomla is a successful, reliable platform. However, some parts of Joomla are often confusing to our customers. One of these is the "Messaging" extension.
In this blog post, I'm going to show you the two features of the "Messaging" extension. I'm also going to suggest two ways in which "Messaging" could be improved in future Joomla releases.
How to Change Joomla's Date and Time Format
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 April 2021 13 April 2021
Joomla comes with a standard format for showing dates and times.
However, there may be a site you have created that will need to use a custom date and time format. In this tutorial, I will show you a step-by-step method on changing your date and time format for articles.
This method will use no coding and will also introduce you to Language Overrides, one of Joomla's best and most underappreciated features.
How to Design Individual Joomla Pages With CSS
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 12 April 2021 12 April 2021
HD-Custom CSS is a simple but very useful module that allows you to add CSS styles to individual Joomla pages.
Without editing your template files, HD-Custom CSS makes it possible to quickly and easily apply CSS changes.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to alter the background color and font for just one page.
How to Create Template Overrides for Joomla Articles
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 05 April 2021 05 April 2021
We have covered Joomla template overrides in this blog and in our Joomlashack University video class.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine template overrides and the core Template component.
I'm going to show you how to create a custom layout that you can use for individual Joomla articles.
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How to Solve Common Joomla Installation Problems
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 30 March 2021 30 March 2021
Our customers often ask us about Joomla installation problems. As you're going through a Joomla installation process, there are several possible issues that you might encounter.
In this tutorial we aim to help you solve as many of those issues as possible.