The Joomlashack Blog
Pro Tips for Using Filezilla with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 January 2021 14 January 2021
If you use Joomla, you've probably used FTP / SFTP software to access your Joomla files. And there's a good chance that your choice of software was Filezilla.
Filezilla is the most popular FTP application in the world. It's free to download and there's a Pro version for only $19.
In this video from the Joomlashack Conference 2020, Robbie Adair from OSTraining shows you how to super-charge your Filezilla skills. She has tips you can start using now to more efficiently manage your Joomla site.
Get Much Better Google Drive Embeds for Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 12 January 2021 12 January 2021
A few weeks, we updated OSEmbed Pro with support for the new Facebook and Instagram embeds.
This week's OSEmbed Pro update is equally significant. It has much better support for all Google Drive embeds including Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides, and Drawings.
Our team re-wrote the underlying code to make the embeds much more reliable. There's also a new "Preview Mode" which presents a really clean view of your embeds.
Joomlashack's 2020 Review and Thank You
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 January 2021 05 January 2021
Thank you all for your support of Joomlashack.
Joomlashack started in 2005, but our team took over the site in 2016.
At the end of every year we write a review of what happened at Joomlashack. If you want to look back, here is our 2016 review, 2017 review, 2018 review and 2019 review.
Even before 2020, we've always avoided writing "everything is awesome" posts. We try and give you honesty and insight into Joomlashack's year. There are always plenty of ups and downs. You'll find plenty of stories of both success and failure in these posts.
How to Add a Google Font Family to a Joomlashack Template
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 January 2021 04 January 2021
A custom font family will add a vital extra touch to your site feel and look. It will make its design look more professional and appealing to its visitors.
It will also demonstrate that you care about the viewing experience of your site visitors. They, in turn, will pay you back with their trust and return visits.
In this blog post, you will learn how to easily add a Google Font family of your choice to our Wright Framework or any other of the Joomlashack templates.
Read more: How to Add a Google Font Family to a Joomlashack Template
How and Why to Use Dark Mode with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 December 2020 17 December 2020
Nicholas Dionysopoulos from Akeeba has long been one of Joomla's most innovative developers. He has recently built a "Dark Mode" option into his extensions and website.
In the video below, Nicholas explains why Dark Mode is important and how you integrate it into your work. Nicholas' starts by explaining why Dark Mode is so helpful for some people visiting your site, particularly those with photophobia. He then talks us through the options for enabling Dark Mode:
- Let the user decide
- Let the browser decide
- Hybrid: let the browser decide and the user override.
How to Display a Joomla Login Form in a Popup Window
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 17 December 2020 17 December 2020
One question we had this week was from a Joomlashack customer who wanted to display a login module in a popup window. The idea is that visitors can log in without leaving the page they are on.
Our Shack Toolbox Pro extension is the perfect tool for this job. You will have a ton of design options to customize your popup.
In this guide, I'll show you how to display a login module inside a lightbox popup with Shack Toolbox Pro.
Read more: How to Display a Joomla Login Form in a Popup Window
How to Uninstall Joomla Extensions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 December 2020 14 December 2020
It's always a good idea to remove Joomla extensions that you aren't using.
However, the process for removing extensions isn't obvious, unless you know how.
Here's how to uninstall a Joomla extension ...
The Complete Beginners Guide to Joomla Menus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 December 2020 07 December 2020
If you followed "The Easiest Workflow to Add Your Joomla Content" post, you learned how to easily create a dozen articles on your site. You practiced that task and built your site using the CASh workflow.
In this lesson, you'll continue using the same site and learn why the task of creating its menu links must follow the same CASh workflow.
Menu links allow visitors to find pages on your site. Without menus, all your visitors would be stuck on the home page. In Joomla, menu links also have substantial control over how your page is laid out and displayed.
The Complete Guide to Joomla Custom Fields
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 December 2020 07 December 2020
In the "previous tutorial", you learned how to make your Joomla articles look more exciting and more interesting. But what if your content needs more than a title and text?
This tutorial explains how you can add interesting and useful data to your Joomla articles with custom fields. Joomla provides custom fields which you can use to show dates, numbers, images, URLs and much more.
At the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to do the following:
- Understand the different types of Joomla fields.
- Display the fields on your Joomla articles.
The Complete Guide to Joomla Cache Options
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 December 2020 07 December 2020
Some of our members are trying to make their Joomla sites run more quickly. They've seen caching options, which promise to help speed up their sites. But, there are several caching options available.
This blog post explains what options are available and how you can enable them.
This tutorial borrows from this article by Klas Berlič. All of the detailed technical explanations and image are from Klas, so a big thank you to him.