The Joomlashack Blog
How to Solve Common Joomla Installation Problems
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 30 March 2021 30 March 2021
Our customers often ask us about Joomla installation problems. As you're going through a Joomla installation process, there are several possible issues that you might encounter.
In this tutorial we aim to help you solve as many of those issues as possible.
How to Embed Google Slides Presentations in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 March 2021 26 March 2021
Google Slides is Google's alternative to Powerpoint or Keynote presentations. It is really easy to add Google Slides to Joomla sites, using our OSEmbed extension.
Using the OSEmbed Pro extension, you can embed Google Slides into your Joomla site with just a URL.
In this guide, we'll show you how to add Google Slides to your Joomla site.
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How to Embed Google Docs in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 March 2021 26 March 2021
Google Docs can be one of the trickiest things to embed in any website. The embed code is hard to use and can easily become corrupted.
With OSEmbed Pro Joomla extension, you can now embed Google Docs into your Joomla site with just a URL. This feature is so cool that it's not even available in WordPress, which is famous for easy embeds.
All the Joomla News for March 2021
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 March 2021 25 March 2021
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack.
In January and February, we posted a round-up of news from around the Joomla community. You told us this was useful, so we're back again for March! Here's our guide to what's interesting in Joomla right now.
I try to post one of these helpful items every day in the Joomlashack Facebook group, so join if you do want daily Joomla updates.
How to Send Shack Forms Data to Specific Users
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 March 2021 24 March 2021
Shack Forms Pro is one of the top Joomla extensions. One of its users asked how to send user-submitted data to certain recipients.
By default, it will be sent to the site administrator you set in Joomla's Global Configuration.
But what if instead of the site administrator you would like to send the data to other recipients? We will show you how to do that in this tutorial.
Introduction to Custom Fields in Shack Locations
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 March 2021 24 March 2021
Shack Locations is the best way to create a location-based directory in Joomla. You can create advanced directories with custom maps, markers, infoboxes and hundreds of locations.
In this guide, we'll show you how to add details to your locations using custom fields.
By default, a location page will display the following information:
- The Google map of the location
- The "Get Directions" search box of the location.
However, with custom fields, you can add a lot of extra, helpful information. For example, you can add these details using fields:
How to Use Joomla's Privacy and GDPR Features
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 March 2021 18 March 2021
The GDPR privacy laws came into force in May 2018. If you're new to the GDPR, we've got some reading resources at the bottom of this post.
In this guide, I'm going to focus on how Joomla is dealing with the GDPR. The Joomla team have developed several extensions to help you protect the privacy of your users.
How to Embed Google Sheets in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 March 2021 16 March 2021
Google's Sheets product is their version of Microsoft Excel.
Here at Joomlashack, we have a lot of members who rely on spreadsheets so we created tools to help. Did you know you can also send Joomla forms results directly to Google Sheets? Did you know that you can easily import and display spreadsheets with Shack Spreadsheets?
Google Sheets is a powerful tool and one that is surprisingly easy to use with Joomla. I'm going to show you how to embed Google Sheets into your Joomla site with just a URL.
How to Create Custom Administrator Menus in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 March 2021 15 March 2021
One useful feature for Joomla site builders is the ability to create new admin menus.
This is a very handy feature for sites with multiple users. Instead of trying to manipulate the permissions for some users, you can simply give them a different set of menu links.
In this example, I'll show you how to make an admin menu that only shows for the Administrator user group. We also have a tutorial on creating custom administrator modules in Joomla.
Read more: How to Create Custom Administrator Menus in Joomla
How to Add Font Awesome Icons to Joomla Menu Links
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 15 March 2021 15 March 2021
Some Joomla templates come with icon support for menu items. Some others come without it.
If your template doesn't support menu icons, we have a solution for you.
Continue reading this post to know how to add Font Awesome icons to your menu items.
Read more: How to Add Font Awesome Icons to Joomla Menu Links