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How to Embed Google Sheets in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 March 2021 16 March 2021
Google's Sheets product is their version of Microsoft Excel.
Here at Joomlashack, we have a lot of members who rely on spreadsheets so we created tools to help. Did you know you can also send Joomla forms results directly to Google Sheets? Did you know that you can easily import and display spreadsheets with Shack Spreadsheets?
Google Sheets is a powerful tool and one that is surprisingly easy to use with Joomla. I'm going to show you how to embed Google Sheets into your Joomla site with just a URL.
How to Add Font Awesome Icons to Joomla Menu Links
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 15 March 2021 15 March 2021
Some Joomla templates come with icon support for menu items. Some others come without it.
If your template doesn't support menu icons, we have a solution for you.
Continue reading this post to know how to add Font Awesome icons to your menu items.
Read more: How to Add Font Awesome Icons to Joomla Menu Links
Remove Joomla's Forget Username and Forget Password Links
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 01 March 2021 01 March 2021
One of our members wanted to remove the "Forget Username" and "Forget Password" links from the login page of his Joomla site.
In this tutorial, I'm show you how to do this by using template overrides.
There are two places where you will find the login form: in the Users component and in the Login module.
Read more: Remove Joomla's Forget Username and Forget Password Links
How to Remove the Pagination Numbers from Joomla
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 01 March 2021 01 March 2021
If you create a list or blog in Joomla, you will often see pagination at the bottom of the page. This enables your site's visitors to navigate to older articles.
One of our students was wanting to know how to remove the pagination options so we created this tutorial for him.
How to Make Joomla Plugins Work in Custom HTML Modules
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 February 2021 19 February 2021
By default, Joomla content plugins will always work inside articles
However, they may often not work inside Custom HTML modules, even though those modules also have a WYSWIYG editor.
In this short tutorial, we will show you how to enable content plugins within your Custom HTML modules.
Read more: How to Make Joomla Plugins Work in Custom HTML Modules
How to Display a Search Module in a Joomla Menu
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 18 February 2021 18 February 2021
It's very common for websites to put features inside top menus. You may find some sites do this with a login form. Other sites may include an advertisement or search box in their menu
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to add a search module to your Joomla menu. We won't use any coding in this tutorial. You will learn how achieve this either with the Modules Anywhere extension or with Shack Search.
How to Use Joomla Pagebreaks in Articles
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 January 2021 29 January 2021
Pagebreaks are designed to split up very long articles.
If you use pagebreaks, Joomla will automatically generate a Table of Contents for you. This feature is called "pagebreaks" because it will break your content into different pages. Every break in your content will lead readers to slightly different URLs.
Here's how to use pagebreaks inside Joomla:
How to Upload Joomla Files Using CPanel
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 January 2021 28 January 2021
This tutorial will show you how to upload Joomla files to your server using the CPanel provided by your hosting company. There are many possible reasons to do this. The reason we wrote this tutorial was the request of a customer whose files had been hacked. They needed to restore a clean set of Joomla files over the top of those that had been corrupted.
How to Manually Order Articles in a Joomla Category
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 25 January 2021 25 January 2021
Joomla allows you a few easy options to set in which order it will display your articles. For example, you can set your Joomla articles to be displayed based on the following creteria:
- Based on the articles popularity
- Based on the articles publication date
- Based on the alphabetical order of their titles
- Based on the order in which they displayed in the adminstrator panel
- and other criteria.
You can also manually set the order of articles by changing their position in the Article manager.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to manually change the order of your articles. For my example, I took articles in my Category Blog.
Read more: How to Manually Order Articles in a Joomla Category
How to Uninstall Joomla Extensions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 December 2020 14 December 2020
It's always a good idea to remove Joomla extensions that you aren't using.
However, the process for removing extensions isn't obvious, unless you know how.
Here's how to uninstall a Joomla extension ...