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How to Disable XML Styling in OSMap
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 25 October 2018 25 October 2018
One of our members was having trouble submitting his sitemap to Google. The message displayed at Google was:
"Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead."
This tutorial will show you how to disable XML styling in OSMap, which should fix the issue. Let's get started.
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.
Read more: How to Add Joomla Microdata to Articles and Templates
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 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.
CSS Grid #13: The auto-fill and auto-fit Keywords in CSS Grid
- Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya
- Published: 16 October 2018 16 October 2018
Welcome to the 13th tutorial in our series on the CSS Grid.
We are presenting this series to help Joomla developers learn about CSS Grid. The introduction of CSS Grid will be one of the major changes in upcoming Joomla 4.
As you already learned, it is possible to create repeating track patterns with help of the repeat notation.
However, using this method gives you a fixed number of tracks, independently of the content inside each one of them.
The auto-fill and auto-fit keywords will allow you to place as many tracks of the specified size as possible, depending on the size of the viewport. This tutorial will explain the usage of these keywords.
Let’s start!
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CSS Grid #12: The minmax() Function
- Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya
- Published: 08 October 2018 08 October 2018
Welcome to the 12th tutorial in our series on the CSS Grid.
We are presenting this series to help Joomla developers learn about CSS Grid. The introduction of CSS Grid will be one of the major changes in upcoming Joomla 4.
Accordng to the CSS Grid Specification, minmax()
Defines a size range greater than or equal to min and less than or equal to max.
In other words, the minmax() function provides a method to specify the minimum and maximum sizes of a grid track. Thus, the minimax() takes two values as parameters.
This tutorial will explain the use of this CSS function.