The Joomlashack Blog
10 Tips for Creating a Great Charity Website with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 July 2018 07 July 2018
One of our customers embarked on building a charity website to support a good cause.
Joomla is a brilliant platform to build a site by yourself, even if you are not a designer and don't know any code.
In this blog post, you will look at 10 recommendations helping you to build a charity website.
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Shack Forms GDPR Improvements
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 July 2018 05 July 2018
If you collect data from EU citizens, the way your site stores the data must comply with GDPR.
We just implemented a few small but important changes in our Shack Forms form builder to make it GDPR compliant.
In this blog post, you will take a look at Shack Forms GDPR improvements.
Beginners Guide to Akeeba Backup Pro Remote Quota Management
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 July 2018 04 July 2018
Previously, we covered how to automatically upload your site backup to Google Drive with Akeeba Backup Pro.
Storing a backup of your Joomla site outside of the site server gives you extra security. But backups take space.
Akeeba Backup Pro allows you to set a quota for your remotely stored backups based on one of the following criteria:
- By the backups maximum age in days.
- By the backups total size in MB.
- By the maximum count of backups taken.
In this tutorial, you will take a look at how to set up these options.
Read more: Beginners Guide to Akeeba Backup Pro Remote Quota Management
What Are the Joomla Extensions You Install on Every Site?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 July 2018 02 July 2018
If you've used Joomla for more than few days, you have opinions.
We want to hear your opinions! What are the extensions you install on every site? What extensions do you love to use?
In this blog post, I'll give you a guide to our 10 essential Joomla extensions.
Let us know your essential extensions in the comments below. We'll pick 5 commenters to win a free 1 year membership to the Everything Club!
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New Feature: Custom Limits for Lists of OSCampus Classes and Pathways
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 June 2018 28 June 2018
We are happy to announce that we implemented another useful feature in our OSCampus Pro 1.2.4.
You can now set your own custom limits for the lists of displayed OSCampus classes.
Previously, this limit was automatically set to the value set in your Joomla's Global Configuration.
In this blog post, you will take a look at this new feature.
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OSYouTube Supports YouTube's Privacy Enhanced Mode
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 June 2018 27 June 2018
It's now just over a month since the launch of Europe's GDPR laws. We recently wrote a guide to how Joomla is handling the GDPR.
We've also been listening and responding to customer requests about the GDPR.
One of the most common requests has been for improvements to how OSYouTube handles privacy. I'm pleased to say that we've just released a new version of OSYouTube which makes it much easier to be GDPR-compliant. The new version makes it much easier to disable cookies for your users.
Read more: OSYouTube Supports YouTube's Privacy Enhanced Mode
New Feature: OSCampus Single Pathway Menu Item Type
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 June 2018 27 June 2018
We are happy to announce that we implemented a new feature in our OSCampus Pro.
Starting with version 1.2.4, you will have the OSCampus Pro - Pathway new menu item type. It will display all classes of a single pathway.
In this blog post, you will take a look at this new feature.
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Joomla Has an Excellent Demo and Test Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 June 2018 27 June 2018
You really should try launch.joomla.org, the new demo system for Joomla sites.
In less than 60 seconds, you can create a test site for Joomla 3 and also Joomla 4! This really is the best way to test Joomla.
If you want to test a new extension, or check the progress of Joomla 4, then launch.joomla.org is a great option.
How to Edit a Class Difficulty Level in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 June 2018 22 June 2018
One of our customers asked how to edit a class difficulty level in their OSCampus classes.
By default, OSCampus displays the three following levels of difficulty:
- Beginner.
- Intermediate.
- Advanced.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to change these three levels to your liking.
How to Style Joomla Articles with Joomlashack Templates
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 June 2018 19 June 2018
One of our template customers asked us how to style their Joomla articles.
Joomla is flexible enough for any beginner without coding skills to tweak an article style.
In this post, you will learn a few tips for styling your Joomla content.
Read more: How to Style Joomla Articles with Joomlashack Templates