The Joomlashack Blog
How to Use Email Variables in Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 July 2019 17 July 2019
Shack Forms is incredibly flexible and customizable Joomla form extension. It allows you to easily customize or personalize emails sent to form submitters or administrators.
You achieve this by using email variables. In this blog post, you will learn 3 things to know about using email variables in Shack Forms.
Email List Integrations with Shack Forms: Mailchimp and AcyMailing
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 12 July 2019 12 July 2019
Are you thinking about creating an email list for your Joomla site visitors but don't know how to? There are two ways of creating email lists with Shack Forms, in no particular order:
- Create a sign-up form for your Mailchimp email lists.
- Create a sign-up form for your AcyMailing email lists.
In this blog post, I will give you a guided tour of each of these three options.
Read more: Email List Integrations with Shack Forms: Mailchimp and AcyMailing
6 Positions for Your Shack Form Toggler
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 July 2019 10 July 2019
A form toggler is what your site visitors will see before they see your Shack Form itself. Your form toggler is what creates the first impression of the form. It also influences the overall impression of your site.
By default, your Shack Form toggler gets fixed to the left of the page. But you have 5 more positions for it. In this blog post, I will walk you through them one by one.
5 Tweaks to Beautify Your Joomla Form Style with Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 09 July 2019 09 July 2019
Your Joomla contact form doesn't have to be boring. Our Shack Forms Joomla extension provides plenty of options to make your contact form funky and fun.
The best part is, you will be able to achieve this even without any CSS skills. In this blog post, you will learn 5 tweaks to beautify your Joomla contact form style with Shack Forms Pro.
Read more: 5 Tweaks to Beautify Your Joomla Form Style with Shack Forms
How to Customize Colors in JCal Pro Categories
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 July 2019 08 July 2019
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.
Introduction to Field Types in Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 July 2019 05 July 2019
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.
Shack Locations Pro Can Hide Google's Points of Interest
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 July 2019 03 July 2019
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.
Read more: Shack Locations Pro Can Hide Google's Points of Interest
How to Hide Modules from Shack Article Manager Pages
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 July 2019 01 July 2019
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:
- Download free Advanced Module Manager here and install it.
- Open the module you wish to hide from Shack Article Manager pages.
- Scroll to the "URL" section, click "Exclude" and type manage-articles and submit-article into the field. Click "Save & Close".
- 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.
Read more: How to Hide Modules from Shack Article Manager Pages
A Guided Tour of Joomla's configuration.php File
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 12 June 2019 12 June 2019
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.
Read the CSS Grid Explained book and Get Ready for Joomla 4
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 June 2019 11 June 2019
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