The Joomlashack Blog
Customizing the Date Format in Shack Article Manager
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 20 April 2020 20 April 2020
Among other useful data, Shack Article Manager displays the dates of Joomla's articles. One of our customers recently asked us how to customize the dates format.
By default, Shack Article Manager displays dates in the format of "Year-Month-Day". With Joomla's brilliant "Language Overrides" tool, you can easily change this format to, for example, "Day-Month-Year". Let's take a look at how to do just that.
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Displaying Checkboxes in Shack Forms Horizontally
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 14 April 2020 14 April 2020
Shack Forms in one of the best form building extensions for Joomla. By default, your Shack Forms module will display checkboxes of the "Checkboxes group" field vertically.
If your checkbox group field has more than four or five checkboxes, your Shack Form may look a bit overstretched vertically.
To make it look tidier and more compact, you may want to display checkboxes horizontally. In this blog post, I'll show you how to do that by splitting the checkboxes into a few columns.
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Creating Multiple Private Calendars with JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 March 2020 31 March 2020
One of our customers asked how to give each Joomla user a JCal Pro calendar only with events they created themselves from the frontend. JCal Pro calls such events private events.
In this blog post, I will walk you step by step through creating multiple private calendars with JCal Pro.
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Say Hello to Shack User Switching
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 March 2020 27 March 2020
Shack User Switching is the 30th extension available at Joomlashack.
Yes, you read that correctly. Joomlashack Everything Club members now get access to 30 extensions.
Shack User Switching allows you to test any user account on your sites, without compromising their passwords. With one click, you can browse your site and see exactly what your users see. This is a safe and useful way to troubleshoot problems for your site's users.
We use this plugin at Joomlashack. Whenever a user reports an issue with their account, we can use Shack User Switching to find the solution.
Click here to get Shack User Switching, or click here to join the Everything Club.
Google Released Covid-19 Related Font Awesome Icons
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 March 2020 26 March 2020
Are you looking for icons to communicate good hygiene and social distancing in your existing or upcoming Joomla site? If the answer is yes, then you will be interested to hear that Google just released Font Awesome 5.13.
This release focuses purely on Covid-19 related icons. Their goal is to help your site communicate some of the most vital things your site visitors and customers must do to protect themselves and their communities.
In this blog post, you will take a look at some of these icons which are free. You will also learn how to use them in your Joomla site.
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Adding Text Between Fields in Shack Forms Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 March 2020 24 March 2020
"Shack Forms Pro" is one of the most popular Joomla extensions. It allows you to quickly and easily build nicely looking forms for your Joomla site even if you don't know how to code.
In some scenarios, you may want to mix the fields of your form with some text. In this blog post, I'll show you how to do this.
Dealing with the "Call to undefined method" Error in OSMap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 March 2020 23 March 2020
One of OSMap users faced the "Call to undefined method Joomla\CMS\Document\XmlDocument::addCustomTag()" error. You may see it trying to view either the "XML" or "Images" sitemaps.
The most likely reason for this error may be one of the 3-rd party system plugins you installed. In this blog post, I'll show you how to find which one of them is the source of the error.
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Recordings of Joomlashack's Online Joomla User Groups
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2020 18 March 2020
During March, April and May 2020 we ran a series of weekly, online Joomla user groups.
This was a project that we ran wile many stuck in lockdown at home.
We were lucky enough to have speakers that included George Wilson, Randy Carey, Peter van Westen, Vic Drover, Andy Miller and Johan Janssens.
Read more: Recordings of Joomlashack's Online Joomla User Groups
Say Hello to Shack Error Notify
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2020 18 March 2020
Shack Error Notify is the 29th extension available at Joomlashack.
Yes, you read that correctly. Joomlashack Everything Club members now get access to 29 extensions. And we've got an additional extension to be released next week!
Shack Error Notify will rescue you from serious site problems. This plugin will send automatic notifications if anything goes wrong with your Joomla site.
We have used this plugin at Joomlashack for years, and it has saved us on many occasions. It is easy to miss site errors, but Shack Error Notify catches them all! You will get an email describing what went wrong on your site, and showing you where to fix it.
Click here to get Shack Error Notify, or click here to join the Everything Club.
How We Are NOT Responding to COVID-19
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2020 18 March 2020
In the last couple of weeks, my inbox has been over-flowing with COVID-19 emails:
- "Hey, it's the hotel you visited five years ago. This is how we are responding to the virus."
- "We sold you some software in 2012. Here is some bland work-at-home advice."
- "We have no idea why we're emailing you. But our boss told us to send out a virus update."
To be honest, I don't have any great advice at all. We're trying to navigate day-to-day, just like you are. Events are moving so fast that even good advice today is likely to be out-of-date tomorrow.