The Joomlashack Blog
How to Display Tags Only On Single Joomla Article Pages
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 February 2019 11 February 2019
Tags are extremely useful for organizing your Joomla content. But, by default, Joomla will display them sitewide.
Your Tags will get displayed on a featured articles page and on category blog pages.
One of our customers asked us how to display Tags only on single Joomla articles. So, in this tutorial, I'll show you how to hide tags on blog and category pages.
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Someone Has Been Spamming OSMap Reviews For Years
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 February 2019 08 February 2019
Here at Joomlashack, we publish a lot of extensions! There are 25 Joomlashack extensions on the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED).
The JED is a wonderful platform, and has been an enormous help for developers like us.
24 of our extensions run smoothly on the JED, getting some good reviews and the occasional negative feedback.
However, there's one exception: OSMap.
Read more: Someone Has Been Spamming OSMap Reviews For Years
How to Add Modules to the Joomla Control Panel
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 February 2019 08 February 2019
It's possible to customize the Joomla admin area for your users.
In particular, it can be useful to customize the control panel that users see when they first login.
Here's how to modify the Joomla admin area to show the information that you or your client require:
How to Add a Home Icon to Joomla Menus
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 07 February 2019 07 February 2019
One of our members asked us this question:
"In some websites, the home menu is just an icon without any text. How can I do this in Joomla?"
The answer is surprisingly simple. Let me show you how to add a Home icon to your Joomla menu.
How to Fix 1054 Unknown Column 'client_id' in 'field list'
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 February 2019 07 February 2019
When you run an update from older versions of Joomla, you may see an error.
If you go to Menus > Main Menu, you may see this error:
1054 Unknown column 'client_id' in 'field list'
This is a problem with Joomla's database update, but it is easily fixed. In this tutorial, you will learn how to quickly fix it.
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Save failed with the following error: Null primary key not allowed
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 February 2019 06 February 2019
The name of this blog post in an error message that some people say on their Joomla site. This error can occur when you click "Save" inside your site:
Save failed with the following error: Null primary key not allowed
This error will prevent you from saving the changes you've made. Fortunately, this error is usually fixable through one of these two solutions:
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How to Import Events from Google Calendar to JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 February 2019 06 February 2019
One of our customers asked how to import events from an external service to JCal Pro. You can achieve this as long as the external service allows you to export your calendar events in iCal format.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to import events from Google Calendar to JCal Pro using its "Import from local ics file" feature.
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How to Enable Frontend Event Creation in JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 February 2019 05 February 2019
One Joomlashack customer asked if it is possible to create JCal Pro events from a website frontend.
The answer is "Yes", and this tutorial we'll show you how it works.
Read more: How to Enable Frontend Event Creation in JCal Pro
How to Manage PDFs and Other Documents with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 February 2019 05 February 2019
When we get two people inside a few minutes in our support system asking how to do the same thing, it's time for a tutorial ...
This week, two Joomlashack members were asking how they can upload documents and link to them from articles. Our recommendation is an extension called OSDownloads.
Read more: How to Manage PDFs and Other Documents with Joomla
How to Use Content Versions in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 February 2019 04 February 2019
Do you work with clumsy people?
Are you sometimes clumsy?
If you answered "Yes" to either question, then there is a Joomla feature that's perfect for you.
Versions is a security feature for your content. Versions allow you to keep a copy of your Joomla articles every time you save a change.