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The Easiest Workflow to Add Your Joomla Content
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 November 2018 23 November 2018
In this tutorial, you will learn and practice the easiest and fastest way to add content to your Joomla site. If you follow this workflow, it will make your Joomla life very easy.
The workflow for adding Joomla content is simple:
- Step 1: Categorize. Create organization for your articles.
- Step 2: Add. Write your articles.
- Step 3: Show. Make menu links so that people can click on them and see your articles.
Let's get started.
Joomla Extensions Missing From the Components Menu
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 November 2018 23 November 2018
Have you upgraded your Joomla site and discovered that one or few components have disappeared from the Components menu?
One of our JoomlaShack University customers recently faced this issue.
In this post, you will learn how to fix links that have disappeared from the Components menu.
Read more: Joomla Extensions Missing From the Components Menu
OSCampus Now Supports Vimeo, Plus Has Improved Lesson Statistics
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 November 2018 21 November 2018
OSCampus is the best and easiest pick if you need a Learning Management System extension for your Joomla site. It's the extension we use to support 10,000's of users here at Joomlashack.com.
The latest version of OSCampus adds support for Vimeo lessons and lessons count. In this blog post, you'll take a look at these two new features.
Read more: OSCampus Now Supports Vimeo, Plus Has Improved Lesson Statistics
Joomla 3 Sample Data: What Are the Options?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 November 2018 20 November 2018
When you install a Joomla site you get a lot of options for sample data. These can be very useful if you are new to Joomla, or setting up a site quickly.
With Joomla, you have 6 different sample data options, and we're going to explain what they all do.
When you get to the final step of the Joomla 3 installation process, you'll see these 6 options:
7 Cool Features in Shack Locations Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 November 2018 19 November 2018
Our Shack Locations Pro component offers some useful features. Some of them, such as markers clustering and bounding, work automatically, on the background. You woudn't know they exist.
Some others, such as displaying a map module, and including locations in Joomla core search, you will need to enable and configure. In this blog post, I will give you a tour of the seven features, exclusive to Shack Locations Pro.
OSMap Allows You to Add No Index for Joomla URLs
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 November 2018 19 November 2018
OSMap is the way to create a sitemap in Joomla. It allows you to create a sitemap so that search engines can find your content.
OSMap Pro also allows you to make Google ignore content included in your sitemap. If you have a menu item or article set to "No index, no follow", Google bots won't crawl and won't index that link.
What are Multilingual Associations in Joomla?
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 16 November 2018 16 November 2018
Joomla has a component called "Multilingual Associations". This will make your life much easier if you build multi-lingual Joomla sites.
Before this component was added, there was no easy place to manage all of your translation items. Every translated item had to be found and edited individually. With the Multilingual Associations component, you will be able to edit all your translations in a single interface. This will save you a lot of time and energy.
5 Courses to Get You Started with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 November 2018 16 November 2018
There is a common question we get from Joomla beginners who just joined Joomlashack.
They want to know how to start with Joomla and what kind of video classes they should take.
Here's an overview of 5 video classes to get you started with building, maintaining, securing and speeding up your Joomla site. All of these courses are available to Joomlashack Everything Club members as part of Joomlashack University.
Announcing the New Joomlashack University
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2018 15 November 2018
Our aim at Joomlashack is to help you improve your skills and grow your business.
Yes, it's helpful if you know Joomla administration, design and development. But it's also helpful to have complementary skills that give you access to the web world around Joomla.
So today we're relaunching Joomlashack University to include classes on all the topics you need to suceed. The new Joomlashack University has over 1,400 videos on everything from Joomla SEO and Security to extension development to Bootstrap 4.
The lessons include design as Bootstrap, LESS and SASS. The lessons also focus on development abilities such as PHP, Javascript and Git.
Introduction to Joomla Multilingual Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2018 15 November 2018
Would you like to know how to create Joomla sites with content in multiple languages? Joomla really can build professional-quality multilingual sites.
But before you begin, there are some key questions to answer:
- What do multilingual sites look like?
- Can I trust Joomla with my multilingual site?
- Are there any advantages or disadvantages to multilingual sites?
In this introductory blog post, we'll answer those questions. Let's start by seeing some examples of real multilingual Joomla sites.