The Joomlashack Blog
How to Create Custom Administrator Menus in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 March 2021 15 March 2021
One useful feature for Joomla site builders is the ability to create new admin menus.
This is a very handy feature for sites with multiple users. Instead of trying to manipulate the permissions for some users, you can simply give them a different set of menu links.
In this example, I'll show you how to make an admin menu that only shows for the Administrator user group. We also have a tutorial on creating custom administrator modules in Joomla.
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How to Add Font Awesome Icons to Joomla Menu Links
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 15 March 2021 15 March 2021
Some Joomla templates come with icon support for menu items. Some others come without it.
If your template doesn't support menu icons, we have a solution for you.
Continue reading this post to know how to add Font Awesome icons to your menu items.
Read more: How to Add Font Awesome Icons to Joomla Menu Links
Simple Renew Has Improved Checkout Options
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 March 2021 10 March 2021
Simple Renew is the simplest and most reliable way to build a Joomla membership site.
Over the last few years, we've managed to grow Joomlashack. Yes, we have some good extensions and templates, but one thing has made that growth possible: recurring subscriptions.
Simple Renew is the extension we have used to power Joomlashack.com for over 5 years.
How to Use Google Analytics 4 in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 March 2021 02 March 2021
Shack Analytics is a single extension to manage all the analytics code on your Joomla sites.
Shack Analytics now has support for Google Analytics 4, which is rolling out to Google customers. This is a major new version of the world's most popular analytics platform.
In this blog post, we'll give you some details on Google Analytics 4 and why you should upgrade. We'll then show you how to use the Shack Analytics extension to add Google Analytics 4 to your site. Finally, we have some alternative suggestions if you want to get out of the Google ecosystem.
Remove Joomla's Forget Username and Forget Password Links
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 01 March 2021 01 March 2021
One of our members wanted to remove the "Forget Username" and "Forget Password" links from the login page of his Joomla site.
In this tutorial, I'm show you how to do this by using template overrides.
There are two places where you will find the login form: in the Users component and in the Login module.
Read more: Remove Joomla's Forget Username and Forget Password Links
How to Remove the Pagination Numbers from Joomla
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 01 March 2021 01 March 2021
If you create a list or blog in Joomla, you will often see pagination at the bottom of the page. This enables your site's visitors to navigate to older articles.
One of our students was wanting to know how to remove the pagination options so we created this tutorial for him.
How to Add Invisible reCAPTCHA Spam Protection to Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 February 2021 26 February 2021
A few years ago, Google reinvented its reCaptcha spam prevention system. Previous versions of Captcha tried to prevent spam by presenting users with distorted letters and numbers. This system was confusing to users, and also failed to stop spammers.
The new Google system is known as "Invisible reCAPTCHA" This new system is much more user-friendly and also prevents spam.
In this blog post, I am going to show you how to add the "Invisible reCaptcha" spam protection to Shack Forms.
Read more: How to Add Invisible reCAPTCHA Spam Protection to Shack Forms
How to Get Joomla Sending Emails via SendGrid
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 February 2021 25 February 2021
Some of our extensions, such as Shack Forms Pro, OSDownloads, and JCalPro send out emails. A few of our customers told us that their users had issues with receiving such emails.
One of the first steps to troubleshoot such issues is to test your Joomla Mailer with an external SMTP server. We suggest the free SendGrid SMTP service for such testing.
In this blog tutorial, I will show you how to switch your default Joomla PHP Mailer to a free SendGrid SMTP testing server.
All the Joomla News for February 2021
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 February 2021 24 February 2021
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack. For the second time, we're doing a round-up of news from around the Joomla community. Please let us know if you find this useful and want more round-ups in the future.
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 Use Woopra Analytics with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 February 2021 23 February 2021
We recently had a few questions asking how to connect a Joomla site with Woopra using Shack Analytics.
Woopra is a SAAS platform that allows you to easily track, analyze and optimize how visitors and customers engage with your Joomla site.
In this blog post, you will learn how to connect the Woopra platform with your Joomla site using Shack Analytics. Once you did, you are well on your way to becoming a data wizard, even if you are not a technical person.