The Joomlashack Blog
How to Catch Every Important Error on Your Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 April 2021 08 April 2021
Earlier this year, I was working with the Joomlashack team on a project. We were busy and the work was difficult.
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that sales were slow, but I didn't pay too much attention.
Perhaps it was just a bad day? Maybe things will improve in the afternoon?
Then I got an email. It looked like this:
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How to Embed Facebook Posts in Joomla
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 06 April 2021 06 April 2021
If you use Joomla, then you've had problems with embeds.
Before the launch of the OSEmbed extension, it was difficult to reliably embed any outside sources into your Joomla articles.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how easy it is to embed Facebook posts into Joomla. The OSEmbed Pro plugin allows you to embed Facebook links in Joomla.
How to Create Template Overrides for Joomla Articles
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 05 April 2021 05 April 2021
We have covered Joomla template overrides in this blog and in our Joomlashack University video class.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine template overrides and the core Template component.
I'm going to show you how to create a custom layout that you can use for individual Joomla articles.
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How to Solve Common Joomla Installation Problems
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 30 March 2021 30 March 2021
Our customers often ask us about Joomla installation problems. As you're going through a Joomla installation process, there are several possible issues that you might encounter.
In this tutorial we aim to help you solve as many of those issues as possible.
How to Embed Google Slides Presentations in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 March 2021 26 March 2021
Google Slides is Google's alternative to PowerPoint or Keynote presentations. It is really easy to add Google Slides to Joomla sites, using our OSEmbed extension.
Using the OSEmbed Pro extension, you can embed Google Slides into your Joomla site with just a URL.
This guide will show you how to add a Google Slides presentation to your Joomla site.
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How to Embed Google Docs in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 March 2021 26 March 2021
Google Docs can be one of the trickiest things to embed in any website. The embed code is hard to use and can easily become corrupted.
With OSEmbed Pro Joomla extension, you can now embed Google Docs into your Joomla site with just a URL. This feature is so cool that it's not even available in WordPress, which is famous for easy embeds.
All the Joomla News for March 2021
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 March 2021 25 March 2021
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack.
In January and February, we posted a round-up of news from around the Joomla community. You told us this was useful, so we're back again for March! Here's our guide to what's interesting in Joomla right now.
I try to post one of these helpful items every day in the Joomlashack Facebook group, so join if you do want daily Joomla updates.
How to Send Shack Forms Data to Specific Users
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 March 2021 24 March 2021
Shack Forms Pro is one of the top Joomla extensions. One of its users asked how to send user-submitted data to certain recipients.
By default, it will be sent to the site administrator you set in Joomla's Global Configuration.
But what if instead of the site administrator you would like to send the data to other recipients? We will show you how to do that in this tutorial.
Introduction to Custom Fields in Shack Locations
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 March 2021 24 March 2021
Shack Locations is the best way to create a location-based directory in Joomla. You can create advanced directories with custom maps, markers, infoboxes and hundreds of locations.
In this guide, we'll show you how to add details to your locations using custom fields.
By default, a location page will display the following information:
- The Google map of the location
- The "Get Directions" search box of the location.
However, with custom fields, you can add a lot of extra, helpful information. For example, you can add these details using fields:
How to Use Joomla's Privacy and GDPR Features
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2021 18 March 2021
The GDPR privacy laws came into force in May 2018. If you're new to the GDPR, we've got some reading resources at the bottom of this post.
In this guide, I'm going to focus on how Joomla is dealing with the GDPR. The Joomla team have developed several extensions to help you protect the privacy of your users.