The Joomlashack Blog
How to Install a Joomlashack Template Demo Site with Akeeba Kickstart
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 May 2019 31 May 2019
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.
Read more: How to Install a Joomlashack Template Demo Site with Akeeba Kickstart
Joomlashack on YouTube, plus a new online Joomla Day
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 30 May 2019 30 May 2019
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
How to Troubleshoot Joomla SEF URLs
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 May 2019 28 May 2019
In "The Complete Guide to Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs," you learned how to make your Joomla URLs easy-to-remember and easy-to-use.
This will help your site in the eyes of both human visitors and search engines.
In this blog post, we are going to give you some troubleshooting tips, in case you would like to set up the search engines friendly URLs exactly how you want.
What is the Best Joomla Page Builder?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 May 2019 28 May 2019
At a recent Joomla event, a Joomlashack member asked me a really interesting question:
Do you recommend using a page builder to use with Joomlashack templates?
By "page builder", we were talking about extensions that allow you to design Joomla pages using a drag-and-drop interface.
I admitted that I hadn't used the page builders enough to give him a good answer. So, over the last couple of weeks, I downloaded and tested several Joomla page builders.
Here's an introduction to some of the most popular page builder options.
Why You Should Care About Joomla Website Accessibility
- Written by Błażej Krzymowski Błażej Krzymowski
- Published: 23 May 2019 23 May 2019
Websites are an essential resource in many aspects of our lives. It is important that your Joomla site is accessible to everyone. This will ensure equal access for people with disabilities.
Your Joomla website should be interactive for disabled people. It must ensure their access to printed, audio and visual media on your Joomla site.
Read more: Why You Should Care About Joomla Website Accessibility
The Complete Guide to Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 May 2019 23 May 2019
A URL is your Joomla site address.
Your site visitors and search engines will be finding your site or its pages using the URL.
In this blog post, you are going to learn about making Joomla URLs easy-to-remember and easy-to-use. This will help your site in the eyes of both human visitors and search engines.
Read more: The Complete Guide to Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs
The Beginners Guide to Joomla Metadata
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 May 2019 22 May 2019
In "The Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla's Aliases" you learned how Joomla's URLs are actually set up in your Joomla site. Now it's time to talk about Joomla metadata.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to control what appears in Google search results when people find your site. We'll show you how to modify Joomla's meta title and meta description.
We highly recommend you download a copy of OSMeta before trying this tutorial. OSMeta is the best way to manage your Joomla metadata.
How to Control Joomla Metadata with OSMeta
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 May 2019 21 May 2019
If you wish to update titles or descriptions of your Joomla content items, you normally need to open up each of them one-by-one. The more content items you may want to edit, the more time-consuming this process becomes.
A Joomla extension called "OSMeta" will make this task much easier for you. I'm going to show you how to use it to quickly update all the titles and descriptions for your Joomla content items in one screen.
Say Hello to Shack Article Manager, our 28th Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 May 2019 15 May 2019
Over the last few years, we've been adopting extensions here at Joomlashack.
These extensions include Tabs and Sliders, JCal Pro, jInbound, Shack Forms, Shack Toolbox and Shack Open Graph amongst others. These are powerful and mature extensions that users love.
Joomlashack users have given us many suggestions for other extensions to adopt. One idea has been suggested far more than any other: User Article Manager. This extension was really popular in early Joomla versions. It allowed you to accept articles from the frontend of your site. It also allowed writers to manage their articles without logging into the Joomla admin.
Read more: Say Hello to Shack Article Manager, our 28th Extension
What Famous Sites Are Using Joomla?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 May 2019 13 May 2019
We're often asked about famous organizations or people who use Joomla for their website.
This is important information for Joomla people. When you are trying to win new customers, it helps to say "Roger Federer uses Joomla" or "Nintendo relies on Joomla".
So we created an overview of high-profile users. The list is completely up-to-date for 2019.