The Joomlashack Blog
Akeeba Subscriptions - Build a Joomla Membership Site
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 04 August 2012 04 August 2012
Akeeba Subscriptions is an extension that allows you to create paid membership sites.
Akeeba Subscriptions integrates directly with Joomla's access controls and with dozens of popular extensions, such as JomSocial, Community Builder or Virtuemart.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to get started with Akeeba Subscriptions.
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Snippets - Reusable Content in Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 30 July 2012 30 July 2012
Here at OSTraining.com we rely on several key extensions. Few are more important to us than Snippets.
We run over 100 classes per year. If a teacher updates their bio, we need to update in dozens of different places on our site. If we update our curriculum, we need to update it in hundreds of places. We use Snippets to make that process much easier.
Snippets allows you to enter content in one central location and then re-use it anywhere on your site.
Projectfork - Project Management for Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 23 July 2012 23 July 2012
Update: Projectfork is no more, but if you're really interested in project management in the open source area, check out UpStream, a WordPress project management plugin.
Projectfork is the most popular Joomla project management extension.
In this tutorial, we're going to give you step-by-step directions on how to use Projectfork. We're going to create a project, add milestones to the project, add to-do tasks and do much more.
What You Need to Know About Joomla 3
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 July 2012 16 July 2012
The big news for Joomla is clear: Joomla 3 is now only three months away from launch.
We're going to give a run down of everything you need to know about this new version:
Joomla 3 in a Nutshell
- What's great about Joomla 3? This is the version that will bring Joomla up-to-speed with the mobile revolution that is taking over the web.
- Who is Joomla 3 for? To begin with, it is for developers and early adopters only.
- I am on Joomla 2.5. What do I do? Stay right where you are! Joomla 2.5 is a wonderful version of Joomla and will be supported until 2014.
- Will the upgrade be easy? Yes, the plan is to allow people to upgrade from 2.5 to 3.0 directly from the administrator area of their site. Remember though, you don't need to do that until 2013 or 2014.
Add to Menu - Easily Add Joomla Articles to Menus
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 10 July 2012 10 July 2012
Add to Menu does exactly what it's name says. It allows you to easily add Joomla articles or components to your menus.
With Add to Menu you will get an extra link in the top right of your Administrator to quickly add a menu link.
Here's how to use Add to Menu:
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Add Custom Fields to Virtuemart Products
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 05 July 2012 05 July 2012
Virtuemart is the most popular Joomla shopping cart, but it can also be challenging for beginners.
We have covered Virtuemart several times, including a comprehensive beginner guide.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to make your product information more interesting by using custom fields. This will allow you to add all sorts of specific details to your products, beyond simply the name, price and description.
Social Pinboard - A Pinterest Clone for Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 25 June 2012 25 June 2012
Social Pinboard is an extension that can turn your Joomla site into a Pinterest.com-style social photo sharing site.With Social Pinboard, your users can create collections of images. Users can also browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections, and 'like' photos.
In this tutorial, we're going to explain the installation, review the product, and make some comparisons with Pinterest.
JPrc Cronjobs Provides Cron for Joomla
- Published: 19 June 2012 19 June 2012
Cron is a feature of many servers but is sometimes unavailable to the user. For example, Godaddy does not give users access to cron.
Using the JPrc Cronjobs extension, we'll show in this tutorial how anyone can use cron on their Joomla site.
Building Multi-lingual Joomla 2.5 Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 June 2012 19 June 2012
About a year ago we wrote a tutorial which showed how to build multi-lingual sites in Joomla.
This tutorial proved to be one of the most popular we've ever written. However, Joomla has made some updates since last year, and so this is our update to that tutorial. We also now have a complete training class on multi-lingual sites for our members.
This tutorial covers how to build a multi-lingual site with only the Joomla core. This doesn't replace other multi-lingual content extensions such as Falang or Joomfish.
JFBConnect Integrates Joomla and Facebook
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 15 June 2012 15 June 2012
We get a lot of students wanting to connect their Joomla site to Facebook.
We often recommend using an extension called JFBConnect because it offers a wide range of integrations between Joomla and Facebook including:
- Users can register and log into your site with their Facebook credentials.
- Users' Facebook profiles will be automatically pulled into their JomSocial, Community Builder, or Kunena profile.
- You can add Facebook comments to your site.