The Joomlashack Blog
All the Joomla News for August 2023
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 September 2023 04 September 2023
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack. Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
We've posted all of these updates, plus a lot more in the Joomlashack Facebook group, so join if you want daily Joomla updates. We have over 1,300 members now!
Joomlashack Will Continue to Support Joomla 3
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 August 2023 29 August 2023
Joomla 3 support was officially retired by the Joomla team in August 2023. The Joomla community is moving forward with Joomla 4, and soon, Joomla 5.
In another post, we outlined our future plans for Joomla 4. In this post, I'll look backwards and explain our plans for Joomla 3.
In that original Joomla 4 post, I said this:
"[Our] goal is to support as many of our customers, as well as we can, for as long as we can."
We still have a good number of Joomlashack customers using Joomla 3. So to meet our goal, we've decided to support those Joomla 3 users for at least one more year.
All the Joomla News for July 2023
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 August 2023 04 August 2023
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack. Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
We've posted all of these updates, plus a lot more in the Joomlashack Facebook group, so join if you want daily Joomla updates. We have over 1,200 members now!
Joomlashack Products and Joomla 4
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 August 2023 03 August 2023
Over the last two years, we've been hard at work upgrading Joomlashack products for Joomla 4.
Some of the extension updates were done in an afternoon. Some of the biggest extensions took over a year to update.
As we learned more about the Joomla 4 update process, we came to decisions about each product. We evaluated how many people were using it, how difficult it was to upgrade, and whether the product still had value for users in 2023.
Here is a list of the Joomlashack products which we will continue to develop and support, plus a separate list of those that are discontinued.
All the Joomla News for June 2023
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 July 2023 03 July 2023
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack. Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
We've posted all of these updates, plus a lot more in the Joomlashack Facebook group, so join if you want daily Joomla updates. We have over 1,200 members now!
All the Joomla News for May 2023
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 June 2023 02 June 2023
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack. Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
We've posted all of these updates, plus a lot more in the Joomlashack Facebook group, so join if you want daily Joomla updates. We have over 1,200 members now!
OSpam-a-Not Pro is Now Available
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 May 2023 25 May 2023
OSpam-a-not is the easiest way to protect your Joomla site from spam bots filling out your forms. The OSpam-a-not plugin uses a clever and unobtrusive technique to protect your forms from a flood of spam.
We created OSpam-a-not because we needed better Joomla spam prevention. We use OSpam-a-not ourselves, so we maintain it and update it regularly. OSpam-a-not supports all the forms in the Joomla core and many from third-party extensions.
For a long time, there was only a Free version of OSpam-a-not. This limited how much support we gave to the product. So this week, we've released a Pro version of OSpam-a-not.
The new Pro features aren't huge, but this is a first step and it means that OSpam-a-not will be supported into the future. This Pro version is now available to Everything Club members and is also available for individual purchase.
This is our 25th Pro extension. All the extensions we have for sale are now ready for Joomla 4, except for Simple Renew.
All the Joomla News for April 2023
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 May 2023 05 May 2023
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack. Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community.
We've posted all of these updates, plus a lot more in the Joomlashack Facebook group, so join if you want daily Joomla updates. We have over 1,000 members now!
JCal Pro is Ready for Joomla 4
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 April 2023 18 April 2023
JCal Pro is now available for Joomla 4 users! You can download JCal Pro version 5.0 and it will work on your Joomla 4 sites.
This is the 24th extension that we've updated for Joomla 4!
JCal Pro is the best calendar and event registration extension for Joomla. JCal Pro offers simplicity, flexibility, event moderation, and a robust feature set. From private and community calendars to commercial events, JCal Pro is sure to fit your calendar needs.
Some Thoughts on Joomla Migrations and Joomla 5
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 April 2023 18 April 2023
This week, we were really happy to announce the release of JCal Pro for Joomla 4.
It took us around a year to update this extension. Overall, it has taken us nearly two years to prepare all our extensions for Joomla 4, and we're not finished yet.
I wrote a little about this process in our 2022 review: "We found that it was possible to move a simple extension from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 in a couple of hours. Our first upgrades were easy, and we migrated several basic extensions in one day. With bigger extensions, the upgrade time increased exponentially. Our medium-sized extensions took three or four months each to migrate to Joomla 4. The largest and most complex extensions have taken us up to a year."