The Joomlashack Blog
Joomlashack Will Require PHP 7 When Joomla 4 Arrives
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 June 2021 16 June 2021
Over the last couple of years, the Joomla community has been moving to PHP 7 as a minimum requirement.
Leading extension developers such as Peter from Regular Labs and Nicholas from Akeeba have already dropped PHP 5.6 support on their extensions. Joomla itself is prompting users to update to at least PHP 7.3, with messages like this:
Read more: Joomlashack Will Require PHP 7 When Joomla 4 Arrives
OSMap Now Supports Phoca Gallery and jDownloads
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 June 2021 16 June 2021
OSMap is one of the first and most successful extensions here at Joomlashack. Every day, over 200 people download and install the Free version of OSMap.
Why do so many people use OSMap? It's because a Joomla sitemap will help Google and other search engines find and understand your site's content.
If you're using other extensions, there are many plugins available that integrate with OSMap. Today, there are two more because OSMap now supports Phoca Gallery and JDownloads. These are two of the most popular free extensions in Joomla.
OSMap Pro previously supported K2, Kunena, Mosets Tree, SobiPro, Virtuemart, OSCampus, and Shack Locations.
Create a Joomla Category List with Images
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 June 2021 14 June 2021
Joomla offers a menu type "Category List" that allows you to display a category and subcategories in a list format.
Normally a "Category List layout" looks like the image below. That examplle is using Protostar as a template. This default design is not very attractive, is it?
We can do it better. For example, we can add an image next to the title of each subcategory. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to do that, using Joomla's template overrides (click here to see all our template override tutorials).
OSCampus Now Has Much Better LMS Statistics
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 10 June 2021 10 June 2021
OSCampus is the best way to build an online training site with Joomla.
OSCampus is incredibly robust and is already used by thousands of people every week. OSCampus runs the video training on OSTraining, and its architecture is the basis for Joomlashack University and the official Joomla.org training site!
In the latest release, you'll find a revamped "Statistics" area with much better statistics on your classes and students.
In this blog post, I'll introduce you to the new OSCampus statistics in the Joomla administrator area.
All the Joomla News for May 2021
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 June 2021 02 June 2021
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack.
Every month we post a round-up of news from around the Joomla community. Our May version is a few days later than normal, because of some big Joomla 4 news! 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.
Check Out This Video Introduction to Shack User Switching
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 May 2021 18 May 2021
Rod Martin and the team at OSTraining were kind enough to create a video showing how to use our Shack User Switching plugin.
Shack User Switching allows you to test any account on your site, without compromising the user'sN passwords. With one click, you can browse your site and see exactly what your users see. This is a safe and useful way to troubleshoot problems for your site's users.
Read more: Check Out This Video Introduction to Shack User Switching
Create a Joomla Module Showing All Articles With a Specific Tag
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 May 2021 17 May 2021
Joomla tags can be your best option for organizing your content. You can even consider Tags to be better than categories. A Joomla article can belong only to one category. A Joomla article can be associated with as many tags as you want. Joomla tags also work across extensions. If you create a Content Category, you can only use that with articles. However, tags work with Content, Contacts, News Feeds, and multiple other extensions.
In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to create a module showing all the content that has a particular Joomla tag. This process is a litte confusing, but the end result can be very helpful.
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How to Use the Joomla Private Messages Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 May 2021 13 May 2021
Joomla is a successful, reliable platform. However, some parts of Joomla are often confusing to our customers. One of these is the "Messaging" extension.
In this blog post, I'm going to show you the two features of the "Messaging" extension. I'm also going to suggest two ways in which "Messaging" could be improved in future Joomla releases.
Get Email Notifications When Users Join Your Joomla Site
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 10 May 2021 10 May 2021
One of our users asked us how they could receive an email notification whenever a new user registered at their Joomla site.
In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up your Joomla site so that site administrators will get notifications of newly registered users.
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How to Add Custom Fields to the Joomla Contact Form
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 May 2021 04 May 2021
Many people choose to use an extension such as Shack Forms to create their contact forms.
Shack Forms is a great choice, but with the arrival of custom fields in Joomla, you can also customize contact forms with the Joomla core.
Read more: How to Add Custom Fields to the Joomla Contact Form