The Joomlashack Blog
How to Stop the Joomla Editor From Removing Code
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 November 2020 18 November 2020
Your Joomla site was built on code. The right code in the right place brings your site to life. However, there are many places where it can also be a huge security risk.
If you allow people to use PHP, Javascript, iframes or other code inside your content, you will greatly increase the chance that your site might be compromised by a malicious code. To minimize this risk, by default Joomla restricts the code you can insert into articles.
The downside to this is that some common code snippets, from well-trusted sources, will be blocked. For example, Joomla doesn’t allow you to insert embed codes from sites like YouTube and Google Maps.
How to Create a Joomla Contact Form
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 November 2020 18 November 2020
This tutorial will show you how to create a Joomla contact form.
We're going to show you two different approaches:
- Using the default Contacts components, so you can create a Joomla contact form without installing any extra extensions.
- Using the powerful Shack Forms extension, so you can take advantage of extra features for your Joomla contact form.
How to Use Joomla's PHP Error Reporting
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 November 2020 17 November 2020
If you have a problem on your Joomla site, one of the most important steps you can take is to find an error message.
You can find errors more easily by turning your Joomla error reporting to maximum. From there you can take step-by-step action to find the cause of the problem.
This tutorial will take you step-by-step on how to change your Joomla Error Reporting setting to its Maximum or Development option. You will learn to do this either from your Joomla administrator panel or using Joomla configuration.php file.
Add Custom Javascript to Your Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 November 2020 16 November 2020
One Joomlashack member wanted to add Javascript to their site, but didn't feel comfortable enough to modify any existing files.
If you want to add custom Javascript to your Joomla site without modifying any existing files, we recommend the "Add Custom JS" plugin.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to safely load your custom Javascript.
How to Reset Joomla and Solve File or Database Problems
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 10 November 2020 10 November 2020
If you face issues with your Joomla site, then reinstalling its core files and database might be the best solution.
Our customer support team used this tested approach to resolve hundreds of issues. In this post, you will learn how to reinstall the Joomla core files and database to their default state.
Read more: How to Reset Joomla and Solve File or Database Problems
How to Create Multi-Lingual Joomla Sitemaps with OSMap
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 30 October 2020 30 October 2020
Do you have a multi-lingual Joomla website? Would you like to improve your site's SEO?
If both answers are yes, you're in the right place. OSMap is the best Joomla sitemap extension.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create sitemaps for a multi-lingual site using OSMap.
Read more: How to Create Multi-Lingual Joomla Sitemaps with OSMap
How to Upload Large Joomla Extensions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 October 2020 29 October 2020
Uploading large Joomla extensions, such as Joomlashack's JCal Pro, for example, can be a tricky business. Because some extensions contain a large number of files, it's often hard to install them via the Joomla administrator area.
This is because hosting companies often put strict limits on the amount of resources you can use on your server. Uploading large files takes a lot of resources. When you try to upload these large extensions, you may end up with timeouts or error messages.
We're going to show you two methods for upload large extensions. One of these methods will also allow you to install dozens of extensions at once.
Finally, at the end of the tutorial, we'll show you a technique that (to our knowledge) has never been documented in Joomla before.
What is a Page Class Suffix in Joomla?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 October 2020 28 October 2020
When you set up menu links in Joomla, you may have seen a "Page Class" option.
A Page Class allows you to add custom CSS to individual pages. This makes it really good for styling landing pages or particular important pages.
In this video, Rod shows you how to use page classes to change the background color on a page. This video is part of our "CSS for Joomla", class which explains page classes, module classes, template overrides and much more.
How to Use Different Joomla CSS for Different Pages
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 October 2020 28 October 2020
One of our users was wanting to have a different background for her site's home page.
Joomla does offer you several ways to customize individual pages.
This tutorial will introduce you to four Joomla options. Let's get started ...
Read more: How to Use Different Joomla CSS for Different Pages
How to Use the Guest Feature in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 October 2020 26 October 2020
In this tutorial, we'll show how to hide content from logged-in Joomla users.
Why would you want to hide information from logged in users? The most common reason to do this that you want to encourage visitors to join the site. Then, if a visitor logs in, they no longer need to see the "join now!" content.
Fortunately, this is really easy to do with the "Guest" feature in Joomla. This guide will show you how to hide content without using any extensions.