The Joomlashack Blog
Beginners Guide to Translating Joomla Menus
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 25 April 2019 25 April 2019
In the "How to Add More Languages to a Joomla Site", you learned to use the power of Associations.
You mastered how to link articles together to take your Joomla article visitor from one language version to another.
In this tutorial, you will go a step further. You will learn how to offer your visitor menus in two languages as well. This will enable you to offer them the smoothest and most reliable multilingual experience.
How to Submit Joomla Sitemaps to Google Search Console
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
OSMap is the most popular way to create a sitemap for Joomla sites.
Google Search Console is the most popular way to make sure your site is listed in Google's search results.
Use OSMap and Google Search Console together, and you'll give your site an SEO advantage.
Read more: How to Submit Joomla Sitemaps to Google Search Console
How to Create a Google News Sitemap for Joomla Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
Google News is an excellent source of traffic for many sites.
To help them find your articles, Google wants you to submit a specially-formatted sitemap which has custom news tags and only lists content added in the last 2 days.
I'm going to show you how to create a sitemap for your Joomla site that Google News will accept.
Read more: How to Create a Google News Sitemap for Joomla Sites
OSMap: Removing Links From a Joomla Sitemap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
OSMap is the best and easiest way to create a Joomla sitemap.
When you install OSMap, it automatically creates a sitemap for you.
For more advanced users, it's possible to edit your sitemaps to include or exclude certain URLs. You may want to do this for visual purposes (you want a short and clean sitemap) or for SEO purposes (to exclude certain URLs from Google's index).
Say Hello to the new OSCampus Pathways Module
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
OSCampus now includes a module called OSCampus Pathways. The module produces a stylish frontend preview of your online training pathways and their courses.
Once you update ti OSCampus 1.4.3, you will get the OSCampus Pathways module automatically installed.
In this blog post, I will give you a brief tour of this new module. You will learn how it looks at your Joomla site public frontend. You will also take a look at what backend settings allow you to customize the frontend display.
How to Reset Joomla If You’re Having File or Database Problems
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 18 April 2019 18 April 2019
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 If You’re Having File or Database Problems
How to Place Two Images Next to Each Other in a Joomla Article
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 17 April 2019 17 April 2019
One of our customers asked how to place two images in their Joomla article next to each other. They also wanted the images to take the full page width.
For one article only, this can be done styling each of the two images individually. This is what you will learn in this post.
Read more: How to Place Two Images Next to Each Other in a Joomla Article
6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 12 April 2019 12 April 2019
One of our customers asked for the best way to display a "Contact Us" form on their Joomla site.
Our answer was "It depends!"
You may want to display a form prominently or subtly. You may wish to display the form on all your pages, or as a pop-up on only a few key pages.
The good news is that Shack Forms supports many different ways to display your forms.
Read more: 6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms
Easily See Google Analytics Statistics for Joomla Pages
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 11 April 2019 11 April 2019
Google Analytics can tell you how many times users visits different pages on your website.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to enable this feature directly within your Chrome browser. As you browse around your Joomla site, you'll be able to easily see statistics for any page you're viewing.
Read more: Easily See Google Analytics Statistics for Joomla Pages
Converting a WordPress Site to Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 April 2019 10 April 2019
This tutorial will show you how to move an existing WordPress site over to Joomla. This will work for many WordPress versions up to 5 and will work for Joomla 3.
We also have a tutorial showing how to move in the opposite direction, migrating from Joomla to WordPress.