The Joomlashack Blog
Upload Your Site Backups to Google Drive Automatically with Akeeba Backup
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 29 October 2019 29 October 2019
One of our customers asked how to automate uploading backups of their Joomla site to Google Drive. They were creating backups with the popular Akeeba Backup Joomla extension.
Having a spare copy of your Joomla site backup outside your web server is a very good practice. You will always have a backup of your site, whatever happens to your hosting.
In this blog post, you will learn how to set Akeeba Backup Pro to automatically upload your Joomla site backups to Google Drive.
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How to Add Invisible reCAPTCHA Spam Protection to Shack Forms
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 28 October 2019 28 October 2019
Previous versions of Captcha tried to prevent spam by presenting users with distorted letters and numbers. This system was confusing to users, but spammers still found workarounds.
The new Google system is known as No Captcha reCaptcha. This new system is way more user-friendly and doesn't require user interaction.
In this blog post, I am going to show you how to add the "Invisible reCaptcha" spam protection to Shack Forms.
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How to Translate Frontend Labels of a Shack Form
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 25 October 2019 25 October 2019
Shack Forms Pro allows you to display the labels of the fields of your forms at the frontend of your Joomla site in languages other than English.
This is a two-step process.
- Install and enable a Joomla language pack for your preferred language.
- Create labels for the fields of the required Shack Forms module in your required language.
Let's take a look at this process in more detail.
How to View and Search Shack Forms Submissions
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 24 October 2019 24 October 2019
Shack Forms is the best Joomla form extension. You can use it to set a required form in seconds and immediately start collecting data from your Joomla site visitors.
But Shack Forms allows you to quickly and efficiently view and search the submitted data. You can perform those tasks via your Shack Forms Pro component.
Let's take a look at how you can view and search Shack Forms submissions.
How the Image Sitemap Works in OSMap
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 23 October 2019 23 October 2019
Image sitemaps help Google crawlers to better find images in your Joomla site. Google then indexes them and includes them in its "Google Images" search.
If you would like to help Google find and index images on your Joomla site, OSMap is your best tool. In this blog post, I will show you how the image sitemap works in OSMap.
How to Automatically Pre-Fill a Shack Form Field Using a Link
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 22 October 2019 22 October 2019
In some scenarios, you may want to pre-fill one of the fields of your Shack Form with a value. And you would like your Shack Form to get this value from a web link in a Joomla article.
For example, you may want your site visitor to open a trip booking form clicking on a link "Click here to book a trip to London".
Once the form is open, your visitor will see the "London" bit inside of one of its fields. This will improve the form user experience.
Let's take a look at how to achieve this.
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How to Hide the "Free" Class Label in OSCampus
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 21 October 2019 21 October 2019
One of our customers asked how to hide the "Free" class label seen next to a class name under the "Table of Contents" tab. You can achieve this with a simple CSS tweak.
In this blog post, I will show you how to apply this CSS tweak and keep it intact after your next OSCampus upgrade.
How to Add Shack Forms Fields to Your Mailchimp Audience
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 18 October 2019 18 October 2019
You can integrate Shack Forms with Mailchimp to build an email list. But Shack Forms allows you to add more than just the subscriber's email address, name and a phone number to the Mailchimp database of your email list subscribers.
You can add in it any piece of data as you see fit. And the more data you have for each of your email list subscribers, the more tailored and targeted your email marketing campaigns you send to them could become.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to add a Shack Forms field to your Mailchimp email list.
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Joomla 4 Has Customizable HTML Email Templates
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 October 2019 17 October 2019
Joomla 4 is making progress with Alpha releases every month or so. Last month, we got a new admin template and before that it was a new search engine.
The latest version of Joomla 4 is Alpha 12. You can read the release announcement here.
The major new feature in this release is customizable email templates. You will be able to control the content of the emails sent from your site. This is thanks to a new extension called com_mails.
How to Troubleshoot Shack Forms Emails Not Being Received
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 17 October 2019 17 October 2019
Shack Forms is one of the most popular forms extensions in Joomla. Shack Forms can automatically send emails to the form submitters and to your site administrators.
However, when you start sending out emails, things can become complex. You have to deal with mail servers, hosting companies, Gmail, Outlook, spam filters and many other variables.
You may find out that for some reason your Shack Forms emails are not being received.
Here is a quick guide to troubleshooting this issue.
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