The Joomlashack Blog
25 Best Joomla Extensions in 2018
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 27 September 2018 27 September 2018
Joomla extensions can significantly improve your Joomla website. They can enhance your Joomla site front end and improve the experience of your site visitors.
They can enhance your Joomla administrator panel and help you administer your site more efficiently. It's hard to imagine a website without Joomla extensions.
In this blog post, you will find our list of 25 best Joomla extensions in 2018. These are extensions that we would recommend for almost any Joomla site and which we use ourselves.
What Are the Joomla Extensions You Install on Every Site?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 July 2018 02 July 2018
If you've used Joomla for more than few days, you have opinions.
We want to hear your opinions! What are the extensions you install on every site? What extensions do you love to use?
In this blog post, I'll give you a guide to our 10 essential Joomla extensions.
Let us know your essential extensions in the comments below. We'll pick 5 commenters to win a free 1 year membership to the Everything Club!
Read more: What Are the Joomla Extensions You Install on Every Site?
Major Improvements in Shack Slides Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2017 18 October 2017
One of our goals at JoomlaShack is to make things simple for you.
With that in mind, we merged Joomlashack's Visionary component into Shack Slides. Visionary was an extension that was sold separately that integrated with Shack Slides and allowed you to easily upload images. The goal is help make it simpler for you to work with slideshows.
With the same low price, Shack Slides now includes the features that made Visionary so popular.
If you install or update Shack Slides to its latest version 3.1.4, you will notice a significant change in your Joomla control panel.
How We're Improving the Admin UI for JCal Pro
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 28 June 2017 28 June 2017
We released today JCal Pro 4.2.5, a new version of the best calendar component for Joomla.
Over the last few releases, we been improving the admin UI, so that JCal Pro looks more like the core Joomla UI.
In general, we think that extensions should look like Joomla, rather than have their own, completely unique design style. This makes it much easier for users, who don't have to learn a new interface.
In this post, we'll give you a quick summary of how the JCal Pro backend evolved during the last updates.
OSYouTube Free and Pro, Version 3.3.3
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 March 2017 28 March 2017
This week we released OSYouTube Free and Pro plug-in versions 3.3.3.
OSYouTube 3.3.3 is a maintenance releases, fixing minor issues.
OSYouTube Pro 3.3.3 adds a new feature: muting videos.
OSTimer Free 2.8.3 and Pro 2.9.1 Released
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 March 2017 21 March 2017
We would like to notify OSTimer users that we just released OSTimer Free v.2.8.3 and OSTimer Pro v.2.9.1. Both are maintenance releases dealing with minor fixes.
OSCampus 1.1.1 is Now Available
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 March 2017 21 March 2017
We are happy to announce immediate release of OSCampus v.1.1.1.
This is a useful new release which introduces some enhancements, as well as ensures compatibility with Joomla 3.7.
5 Creative Ways OSEmbed Can Spice Up Your Joomla Posts
- Written by Joe Campbell Joe Campbell
- Published: 27 February 2017 27 February 2017
With so much content bombarding people on a daily basis, it can be difficult to get and keep the attention of your target audience. One proven method for engaging site visitors is to use media. Text is great, but you can say so much more with images (static or animated), audio, and videos.
Here are 5 ways you can use embedded media to keep viewers engaged and coming back for more.
Read more: 5 Creative Ways OSEmbed Can Spice Up Your Joomla Posts
Meet Barbarians, a Bootstrap-Based JCal Pro Theme
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 10 February 2017 10 February 2017
JCal Pro 4.1.6 was released recently, and this version includes “Barbarians”, a new JCal Pro theme.
Barbarians is a clean and flat design based on the Bootstrap framework. If you use the Barbarians theme, your events calendar will look great on any device, from desktop to smartphones and tablets.
In the next few weeks, we intend to make Barbarians the default theme, after getting feedback from you and other JCal Pro users.
In this post, we will show you how to start using the Barbarians theme today.
Read more: Meet Barbarians, a Bootstrap-Based JCal Pro Theme
Meet OSTimer Pro, the Countdown Extension for Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 04 November 2016 04 November 2016
OSTimer is the best countdown extension for Joomla.
Today, we're happy to announce the release of OSTimer Pro!
OSTimer Pro includes extra layout options, and the ability to customize the color of your countdown clock.
Additionally, we've done a lot of work to improve the admin UI for both the Free and Pro versions of OSTimer.
Read more: Meet OSTimer Pro, the Countdown Extension for Joomla