The Joomlashack Blog
How Shack Forms Integrates with Zoo
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 November 2019 26 November 2019
We blogged this week on how Shack Forms can help your Joomla 3-rd party extensions. In this post, you learned how to use Shack Forms as a communication tool for your Community Builder community. In this blog post, you also learned how to use Shack Forms to send messages to owners of entries of a SobiPro directory.
Shack Forms also integrates with Zoo, a popular Joomla extension for building catalogs. With this integration, your site visitors will be able to contact an author of an item of a catalog created via Zoo. In this blog post, I will show you how Shack Forms integrates with Zoo.
How Shack Forms Integrates with SobiPro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 November 2019 25 November 2019
In the previous blog post, you learned that Shack Forms Pro can be a very handy tool for some 3-rd party Joomla extensions. You learned that your Joomla users or Community Builder users can send messages to your Community Builder users via a Shack Form.
But Shack Forms also integrates with SobiPro, another popular Joomla extension. This integration will allow your site visitors to contact owners of the entries of your SobiPro directory. In this blog post, I will show you how Shack Forms integrates with SobiPro.
How Shack Forms Integrates with Community Builder
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 November 2019 22 November 2019
Shack Forms Pro is not just a Joomla extension for building forms. Although it does indeed allow you to quickly and easily build nicely looking forms, it can also complement your 3-rd party Joomla extensions. It integrates with Community Builder, JomSocial, SobiPro and Zoo.
In the case of Community Builder, Shack Forms Pro becomes a communication tool between your Community Builder users and your Joomla users. In this blog post, I will show you how Shack Forms integrates with Community Builder.
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Security Best Practices for your Joomla Agency
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 November 2019 21 November 2019
We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.
This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.
I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel. There's a single playlist for all conference videos.
This presentation is from Vic Drover, the CEO of Watchful. We've written before about how we rely on Watchful here at Joomlashack.
How Joomla Helped Build a Site for Writers, Readers and Publishers
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 November 2019 20 November 2019
We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.
This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.
I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel. There's a single playlist for all conference videos.
This presentation is from Robert Fairhead, from Sydney, Australia. It is his personal case study. This is the first presentation of this type where the speaker talks about one particular website they built, all the ins and outs and the challenges that were involved in building it.
Read more: How Joomla Helped Build a Site for Writers, Readers and Publishers
How to Set up a Quiz in OSCampus Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 November 2019 19 November 2019
If you need to set an online training on your Joomla site, OSCampus Pro is the best tool to do this job. It allows you to set online courses, lessons, and quizzes.
This week we had a customer asking about what a quiz is and how it works. In this blog post, I will explain exactly that.
How to Optimize and Improve the Joomla Admin Area
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 November 2019 18 November 2019
We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.
This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.
I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.
This presentation was from Peter Martin and shows you how to improve the Joomla admin area.
Peter's presentation has 101 different tips for improving your site. If you're a regular Joomla user, you may know several of them, but I 100% guarantee you'll come away from this talk with at least several great new ideas.
Read more: How to Optimize and Improve the Joomla Admin Area
How Debugging a Sitemap Works in OSMap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 November 2019 18 November 2019
Sitemaps help search engines find and index your Joomla site content. OSMap is one of the most popular Joomla sitemap extensions.
If you are having an issue with your sitemap, the "Debug" feature will help uncover problems. In this blog post, I will show you how this feature works.
How to Create Custom 404 Pages in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2019 15 November 2019
By default, Joomla does not provide a 404 page that you can easily create and manage.
A 404 is really useful for guiding your visitors when they visit a broken URL on your site.
I'm going to demonstrate how to create a custom 404 page.
We're going to create an article, add a menu link and then add a little code to a file in your template folder.
Everything You Need to Know About Joomla 4 in One Video
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2019 15 November 2019
We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.
This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.
I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel. There's a single playlist for all conference videos.
The first presentation we've published is from George Wilson, one of Joomla's lead developers. I introduced George and joked that this was the conference keynote. George is such a humble guy that he brushed off that compliment. But there's no doubt that everyone interested in Joomla should watch George's talk.
Read more: Everything You Need to Know About Joomla 4 in One Video