The Joomlashack Blog
How to Place Two Images Next to Each Other in a Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 April 2019 17 April 2019
One of our customers asked how to place two images in their Joomla article next to each other. They also wanted the images to take the full page width.
For one article only, this can be done styling each of the two images individually. This is what you will learn in this post.
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6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 12 April 2019 12 April 2019
One of our customers asked for the best way to display a "Contact Us" form on their Joomla site.
Our answer was "It depends!"
You may want to display a form prominently or subtly. You may wish to display the form on all your pages, or as a pop-up on only a few key pages.
The good news is that Shack Forms supports many different ways to display your forms.
Read more: 6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms
Easily See Google Analytics Statistics for Joomla Pages
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 11 April 2019 11 April 2019
Google Analytics can tell you how many times users visits different pages on your website.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to enable this feature directly within your Chrome browser. As you browse around your Joomla site, you'll be able to easily see statistics for any page you're viewing.
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Converting a WordPress Site to Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 April 2019 10 April 2019
This tutorial will show you how to move an existing WordPress site over to Joomla. This will work for many WordPress versions up to 5 and will work for Joomla 3.
We also have a tutorial showing how to move in the opposite direction, migrating from Joomla to WordPress.
The Share It plugin is now called Shack Article Sharing
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 April 2019 03 April 2019
Back in January, we looked ahead to 2019 and set three main goals for the year:
- Provide customers with a smooth transition to Joomla 4.
- Integrate our extensions. For example, we can expand OSMap to provide support for all our new extensions.
- Improve the Joomlashack brand by redesigning the logo and rebranding our extensions.
Read more: The Share It plugin is now called Shack Article Sharing
How to Manually Install Joomla Using cPanel
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 03 April 2019 03 April 2019
One of our students was having trouble installing Joomla using cPanel, so we created this tutorial for them.
This tutorial will cover setting up the database, the files, and the configuration of the Joomla install.
Joomla: Updates Table Doesn't Exist
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 02 April 2019 02 April 2019
One of our students was having a problem updating his site. The issue was the "updates" table in the database had become corrupted.
We found a solution for him, but it required running a query in phpMyAdmin. He wasn't familiar with the process of running a database query before, so we created this tutorial for him and you.
In the step-by-step tutorial, we'll describe the issue and demonstrate how to resolve it.
Introducing the New Joomlashack Logo
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 March 2019 26 March 2019
I owe a big "Thank You" to the Joomlashack community.
Just over two months ago, I wrote a post called "We Are Working on a New Joomlashack Logo".
I described all the problems we found while trying to design a new logo. In the end, I presented a new version of the logo and said:
Our Response to an OSMap SQL Injection Report
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 March 2019 06 March 2019
Here at Joomlashack, we were alerted to a possible security issue with OSMap.
To the best of our knowledge, this report is false. We did post our own detailed response on the reporting site called "Packet Storm". However, not only did Packet Storm remove the security report, but other sites picked up the report with our response.
How to Create a Thank You Page for a jInbound Landing Page
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 March 2019 05 March 2019
One of our customers asked how to create a "Thank You" page for a jInbound landing page. With jInbound you can create a "Thank You" page using Joomla articles.
This is a three-step process:
- Create a "Thank You" Joomla article.
- Create a hidden menu item for the "Thank You" article.
- Set your landing page to use the "Thank You" article.
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