The Joomlashack Blog
New 6-in-6 Challenge and a New Joomla Template
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 22 July 2012 22 July 2012
The Summer 6-in-6 Challenge
Most Joomla Template companies launch just one Joomla Template each month, however we dont feel that 12 templates a year is enough. So for the past few years we have made the promise to our clients to launch more than 20 per year. That's almost twice as many as our competitors and we should be happy and proud of that huge acomplishment. However, every once in a while we go a little crazy - - it may be the heat or the humidity, and being the gluttons for punishment we are, we decide to push ourselves even harder and launch 6 new, reliable, and exciting products in as many weeks.
6 New Products: 4 Joomla Templates and 2 Joomla Extensions to be Launched during the next 6 Weeks
If you recall, we failed our last 6-in-6 challenge. The last template we launched in the challenge, the exciting and revolutionary N6, was delayed and we ended up launching our 6 Joomla Templates in a period of 7 weeks. This time we have made the challenge even more complicated because we will be including two Joomla Extensions as part of the 6 products we will launch. Stay tuned during the next 6 weeks as we embark in this difficult undertaking.
What You Need to Know About Joomla 3
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 July 2012 16 July 2012
The big news for Joomla is clear: Joomla 3 is now only three months away from launch.
We're going to give a run down of everything you need to know about this new version:
Joomla 3 in a Nutshell
- What's great about Joomla 3? This is the version that will bring Joomla up-to-speed with the mobile revolution that is taking over the web.
- Who is Joomla 3 for? To begin with, it is for developers and early adopters only.
- I am on Joomla 2.5. What do I do? Stay right where you are! Joomla 2.5 is a wonderful version of Joomla and will be supported until 2014.
- Will the upgrade be easy? Yes, the plan is to allow people to upgrade from 2.5 to 3.0 directly from the administrator area of their site. Remember though, you don't need to do that until 2013 or 2014.
Add to Menu - Easily Add Joomla Articles to Menus
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 10 July 2012 10 July 2012
Add to Menu does exactly what it's name says. It allows you to easily add Joomla articles or components to your menus.
With Add to Menu you will get an extra link in the top right of your Administrator to quickly add a menu link.
Here's how to use Add to Menu:
Read more: Add to Menu - Easily Add Joomla Articles to Menus
Add Custom Fields to Virtuemart Products
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 05 July 2012 05 July 2012
Virtuemart is the most popular Joomla shopping cart, but it can also be challenging for beginners.
We have covered Virtuemart several times, including a comprehensive beginner guide.
In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to make your product information more interesting by using custom fields. This will allow you to add all sorts of specific details to your products, beyond simply the name, price and description.
New SEO Training College at Joomlashack
- Written by Joomlashack Joomlashack
- Published: 26 June 2012 26 June 2012
Joomlashack's SEO College Launches Today
We've been dilligently building content and we are now proud to announce the launch of our new school: The SEO College at Joomlashack. During the last few years we have taught thousands how to design great and reliable websites using Joomla, now it´s time to learn how to:
1. Get your sites found by search engines and the people you want. So you can:
2. Drive more traffic to your sites. In order to:
3. Increase your sites' conversions.
SEO College Landing Page
Social Pinboard - A Pinterest Clone for Joomla
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 25 June 2012 25 June 2012
Social Pinboard is an extension that can turn your Joomla site into a Pinterest.com-style social photo sharing site.With Social Pinboard, your users can create collections of images. Users can also browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections, and 'like' photos.
In this tutorial, we're going to explain the installation, review the product, and make some comparisons with Pinterest.
JPrc Cronjobs Provides Cron for Joomla
- Published: 19 June 2012 19 June 2012
Cron is a feature of many servers but is sometimes unavailable to the user. For example, Godaddy does not give users access to cron.
Using the JPrc Cronjobs extension, we'll show in this tutorial how anyone can use cron on their Joomla site.
Building Multi-lingual Joomla 2.5 Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 June 2012 19 June 2012
About a year ago we wrote a tutorial which showed how to build multi-lingual sites in Joomla.
This tutorial proved to be one of the most popular we've ever written. However, Joomla has made some updates since last year, and so this is our update to that tutorial. We also now have a complete training class on multi-lingual sites for our members.
This tutorial covers how to build a multi-lingual site with only the Joomla core. This doesn't replace other multi-lingual content extensions such as Falang or Joomfish.
6 Useful New Features in Joomla 2.5.6
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 June 2012 19 June 2012
Joomla 2.5.6 was released today. This release is a mix of bug fixes, low-level security releases and new features.
You can update your sites in just three steps:
- Login to your site's administrator area.
- Click the big "Joomla 2.5.6 Update Now" button.
- Click Install the update.
After updating, here's an introduction to the new features you'll see:
JFBConnect Integrates Joomla and Facebook
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 15 June 2012 15 June 2012
We get a lot of students wanting to connect their Joomla site to Facebook.
We often recommend using an extension called JFBConnect because it offers a wide range of integrations between Joomla and Facebook including:
- Users can register and log into your site with their Facebook credentials.
- Users' Facebook profiles will be automatically pulled into their JomSocial, Community Builder, or Kunena profile.
- You can add Facebook comments to your site.