How to Customize Colors in JCal Pro Categories

How to Customize Colors in JCal Pro Categories

JCal Pro is the premier events calendar for Joomla with a beautiful front end display. By default, JCal Pro assigns the same color to all events categories and events. So, all the categories and events will look the same.

JCal Pro allows you to easily set a unique color for every category instead of the default one. This new category color will be passed to the category events as well. In this tutorial, you will learn how to set your preferred color to all events categories. 

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Introduction to Field Types in Shack Forms

Introduction to Field Types in Shack Forms

Shack Forms is one of the most popular Joomla forms extensions. It has over three hundred 5-star reviews at Joomla.org.

One of the reasons why Shack Forms is so popular are its field types. They are completely flexible.

In this short video tutorial, we will show you how to customize your Shack Form with different fields.

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Shack Locations Pro Can Hide Google's Points of Interest

Shack Locations Pro Now Allows to Hide Google Points of Interest

Shack Locations Pro is the best Joomla extension to create an advanced map directory with multiple locations. You can pinpoint every location with its own customizable marker and many extra details.

However, by default, Google also includes it's own markers to maps. Each map shows Google's own "Points of Interest".

The new version of Shack Locations Pro now allows you to hide these "Points of Interest". In this blog post, I will give you a brief introduction to this new feature. 

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How to Hide Modules from Shack Article Manager Pages

How to Hide Joomla Modules from Shack Article Manager

Shack Article Manager is the best extension to write and manage Joomla articles from your site frontend. 

One of our customers asked how to keep their Shack Article Manager pages as clean as possible. They wanted to hide any modules on Shack Article Manager screens. In this blog post, I'll show you how to achieve this with Advanced Module Manager from RegurlarLabs.com.

This is a four-step process:

  1. Download free Advanced Module Manager here and install it.
  2. Open the module you wish to hide from Shack Article Manager pages.
  3. Scroll to the "URL" section, click "Exclude" and type manage-articles and submit-article into the field. Click "Save & Close".
  4. Repeat the above steps for the rest of the modules you wish to hide from Shack Article Manager pages.

Let's take a look at this process in more detail.

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A Guided Tour of Joomla's configuration.php File

A Guided Tour of Joomla's configuration.php File

Joomlashack members often ask us to help with problems with paths, passwords, data base connections and other basic configuration issues. This is especially true after a migration or move of a site.

Most of the fixes for these problems can be made in your configuration.php file. We're going to help you get to know it this very important file.

In this guide, were going to tell you:

  • Where you can locate your configuration.php file.
  • What each line affects and common settings.

This is not a comprehensive coding guide, but is a general reference to help you understand this important Joomla file.

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Read the CSS Grid Explained book and Get Ready for Joomla 4

Read the CSS Grid Explained book and Get Ready for Joomla 4

CSS Grid is revolutionizing web design.

For the last 20 years, we have used CSS to lay out web pages. However, CSS has always been missing some key functionality. Designers had to rely on workarounds, such as tables, floats, and positioning.

CSS Grid is different and better.

Read more: Read the CSS Grid Explained book and Get Ready for Joomla 4

We're Going to Simplify jInbound

We're Going to Simplify jInbound

Over the last few years, we've been adopting extensions here at Joomlashack.

These extensions include Tabs and SlidersJCal Pro, Shack FormsShack Toolbox and Shack Open Graph amongst others. These are powerful and mature extensions that users love. 

Almost all the adoptions have been a success. However, we always aim to be honest with users and it's time to admit that one adoption hasn't gone well.

Last year, we acquired jInbound. It's a large marketing automation extension that was designed to be a Joomla version of Hubspot, Marketo, Infusionsoft, or Drip.

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Guides to Get You Started With Shack Forms

Guides to Get You Started With Shack Forms

Our "Shack Forms" Joomla extension will allow you to create contact forms, booking forms, support ticket forms, and many other types of forms.

This forms extension has 10,000's of users, with more than 300 reviews and a perfect 10/10 score on the JED. 

To help Joomlashack members get started with Shack Forms, we've been writing a lot of Shack Forms documentation.

In this post, I'm going to give you an overview of the most useful new tutorials.

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How to Install a Joomlashack Template Demo Site with Akeeba Kickstart

Now and then our templates customers ask for a template Quick Start pack. Some Joomla templates providers offer them but we don't.

Instead, we offer an installable .jpa file of the requested template. Once you installed it, you will get an exact copy of the template's fully-fledged Demo site that you see at Joomlashack.

Use it if you would like your Joomla site to be its exact or very close replica.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install it using the popular "Akeeba Kickstart Core" tool. For this demonstration, I will use our Alasse template.

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Joomlashack on YouTube, plus a new online Joomla Day

Joomlashack on YouTube, plus a new online Joomla Day

One of the most common requests we've had from Joomlashack members is more video tutorials. 

Sure, there's a lot of documentation available for Joomlashack products, but many of your are visual learners. So we've launched the Joomlashack YouTube channel. Look out for interesting Joomla how-to videos every week.

Read more: Joomlashack on YouTube, plus a new online Joomla Day