The Joomlashack Blog
How to Find the Location of Your Joomla php.ini File
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 October 2018 25 October 2018
The php.ini file is a critical file you often need to manage to optimize your Joomla site. It controls many important aspects of what you can and can not do with your site.
For example, it controls the size of the files your server allows your Joomla to upload.
Different hosts use different schemes for storing and accessing critical system files like php.ini. You'll need to research where to find them.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to find the location of the php.ini file on any server.
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Create a Joomla Sitemap for Google, Bing, Yahoo
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 October 2018 24 October 2018
Why should you add a sitemap to your Joomla site?
I'll be honest and say that I don't believe sitemaps improve your ranking in search engines. However, they do make sure more pages get indexed and that they get indexed more quickly.
Get Your Copy of the CSS Grid Explained Book
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 October 2018 23 October 2018
CSS Grid is revolutionizing the frontend web-design industry.
For the last 20 years, web designers 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.
How to Add Joomla Microdata to Articles and Templates
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 23 October 2018 23 October 2018
Microdata makes it possible to search engines to understand important details about your site's content.
Microdata provides Google and Bing with extra information about your content such as names, descriptions, dates and ratings. And, because search engines can understand your data more clearly, they often reward you with a higher ranking.
In Joomla, some microdata support was quietly added in Joomla 3.3, which was released in 2014. The best to way to provide microdata is by using your template.
Some templates provide microdata support, including all Joomlashack templates.
However, if your template doesn't support microdata, I'm going to show you how to test your template and then add microdata support.
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How to Fix a 500 Internal Server Error in Joomla
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 23 October 2018 23 October 2018
At Joomlashack, several customers have asked us about "Internal Server Errors" on their Joomla site.
In this blog post, I will cover what an internal server error is in Joomla and how to fix it.
How to Use Joomla Fields - the Complete Tutorial!
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 October 2018 23 October 2018
Custom fields are very important and useful Joomla feature.
Using Joomla fields, you can add many different types of fields, including Calendars, Checkboxes, Color pickets, Lists, Images and much more. You can read our overview of all 15 field types.
These Joomla fields can improve core parts of Joomla including articles, contact forms, users. You'll also find extensions that support fields including our own OSDownloads.
In this introduction, I'll show you how Joomla fields work.
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Shack Locations Offers 50 Custom Styles for Joomla Maps
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 October 2018 19 October 2018
One of the exclusive features in Shack Locations Pro is the 50 custom map styles. By default, your map directory's maps look rather boring. They don't have to be.
In the Pro version, you have 50 custom Google Map styles. They look pretty cool. You can apply any of them to match your site design without any coding skills. In this blog post, I will give you a tour of all of those 50 styles.
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How to Add Video or Audio to a Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2018 18 October 2018
In this Joomla media tutorial, we'll show you how to embed video and audio into a Joomla article.
By default, Joomla doesn't have much support for multimedia. You can add images, but it's not possible to embed YouTube videos, Soundcloud audio, Twitter posts, Instagram photos and other multimedia content.
If you do want to add video or audio to Joomla article, you will need an extension.
How to Add a Joomla Module Position Inside Any Component
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 18 October 2018 18 October 2018
Do you know that you can display Joomla modules inside components? This is possible with only a single line of PHP code.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to display a module inside any component.
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How to Link to PDFs and Other Files in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2018 18 October 2018
One of the things that many people use their websites for is sharing documents. Many organizations produce a large number of documents and need to make them available on their site.
In this tutorial, we'll show you two ways to share PDF documents in Joomla.