The Joomlashack Blog
What Are Joomla Fields
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 30 May 2025 30 May 2025
Custom fields are an essential and useful Joomla feature.
Using Joomla fields, you can add many different types of fields, including Calendars, Checkboxes, Colour pickers, Lists, Images and much more.
These Joomla fields can improve core parts of Joomla, including articles and users. You'll also find extensions that support fields including our own OSDownloads.
In this introduction, I'll show you how Joomla fields work.
How to Create Mailchimp Groups
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 May 2025 23 May 2025
Some of our Joomla extensions make it easy to connect with the Mailchimp email marketing service. With tools like Shack Forms or OSDownloads Pro, you can quickly start building your email list.
For more targeted marketing, Mailchimp allows you to segment your audience into groups. This guide will show you how to create those groups in Mailchimp.
Shack Locations Pro Offers 45 Custom Styles for Joomla Maps
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 May 2025 16 May 2025
One of the standout features of Shack Locations Pro is its collection of 45 beautifully designed custom map styles. By default, your directory maps might not blend seamlessly with your Joomla site's design, but that’s easy to change.
With Shack Locations Pro, you can choose from 45 ready-made Google Maps styles to match your site’s look and feel—no coding required. In this post, I’ll walk you through each style so you can find the perfect fit for your Joomla website.
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How to Add Video or Audio to a Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 09 May 2025 09 May 2025
In this Joomla media tutorial, we'll show you how to embed video and audio into a Joomla article.
By default, Joomla doesn't have much support for multimedia. You can add images, but it's not possible to embed YouTube videos, Soundcloud audio, X / Twitter posts and other multimedia content.
If you do want to add video or audio to Joomla article, you will need an extension.
How to Show Social Media Icons in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 May 2025 02 May 2025
Almost every website builder wants to make it easy for visitors to find them on social media. Shack Icons Pro lets you easily add all the popular social networks to your Joomla site.
If you want a great-looking set of social icons on your site, try the Shack Icons Pro module. It lets you easily add stylish icons of all the popular social networks, from Delicious and Digg to YouTube and Yelp.
All you have to do is add the username of the social network you want and save. The Shack Icons Pro module will automatically generate nice-looking icons with the correct URL to your social profile.
Resetting a Student’s Quiz Attempt in OSCampus Pro
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 25 April 2025 25 April 2025
One of our OSCampus Pro customers wanted to reset a quiz data for a student.
While OSCampus doesn’t offer this admin feature directly, you can absolutely do it manually with a little help from the database tool phpMyAdmin.
In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the process step by step—it’s easier than it sounds, promise!
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How to Create Dummy Content in Joomla Articles
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 April 2025 17 April 2025
One of our Joomlashack members asked us how to make creating Joomla articles less time-consuming. Is there any way to create content on a mass scale, like, for example, ten Joomla articles, in one go?
Yes, with just a few clicks, you can create Joomla content quickly using our OSContent component.
Translating "Send a copy to yourself" in Shack Forms Pro
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 08 April 2025 08 April 2025
Shack Forms Pro is a powerful tool, especially when building multilingual Joomla sites. But now and then, a small detail can throw you off. One such detail is the "Send a copy to yourself" label that shows up when sending a copy to a user is enabled.
If you've been scratching your head about how to translate it, you're not alone. We recently had to solve this exact issue, and figured others might benefit from the solution. Here’s how you can get that pesky line properly translated in no time.
Read more: Translating "Send a copy to yourself" in Shack Forms Pro
Create Engaging Lessons by Mixing Text with YouTube Video
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 04 April 2025 04 April 2025
OSCampus Pro gives you several lesson types out of the box: Quiz, Text Only, Wistia Video, Vimeo Video, and URL Embed. But what if you want to go beyond these defaults?
Let’s say you're using a Text Only lesson but want to spice it up with a YouTube video. Good news — this is totally doable, and it’s easy with the help of the OSEmbed Pro plugin.
Read more: Create Engaging Lessons by Mixing Text with YouTube Video
How to Embed Spotify Songs in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 March 2025 28 March 2025
If you've been working with Joomla for a while, you probably know how tricky embeds used to be.
Before OSEmbed came along, getting external content like Spotify songs into your articles wasn’t exactly smooth sailing.
In this quick tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to easily embed your favorite Spotify tracks right inside your Joomla articles.