Joomlashack Blog and Updates

Shack Forms Is Now Live at Joomlashack

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 04 June 2018 04 June 2018

Back in March, we announced the acquisition of Perfect Web, another Joomla extension company.

As a result, three Perfect Web extensions are moving to Joomlashack. We already moved over Shack Toolbox.

We are happy to announce that the second extension is also here today. Say hello to "Shack Forms"!

Introducing Shack Forms

Shack Forms is the centerpiece of the Perfect Web acquisition.

Shack Forms will allow you to create contact forms, booking forms, support ticket forms, and many other types of forms.

This forms extension has 10,000's of users, with nearly 300 reviews and a perfect 10/10 score on the JED.

Judging by the JED ranking, this is already the third most popular forms extension in the Joomla world.

We think Joomlashack users are going to love it!

Our goal with this acquisition is to provide you with the most user-friendly and powerful forms extension in Joomla.

The original name of the extension is "Perfect Ajax Popup Contact Form". We're going to call it Shack Forms.

Getting started with Shack Forms

What happens for Perfect Web members?

All existing Perfect Web customers will have their purchase agreements honored.

If you want to move your account now, you can This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Or look for us to contact you in the next few days.

Please note: You will need a new license key from Joomlashack to keep updating your extensions.

If you're not convinced to move, we've already started to add cool new features such as the ability to store the messages sent to you through Shack Forms.

What happens for Joomlashack members?

Anyone who is an Everything Club member will get access to Shack Forms. Joomlashack just got even better for you.

What comes next?

In the next couple of weeks, we plan to launch one more Perfect Web extensions here at Joomlashack: Shack Open Graph (formerly known as "Open Graph and X / Twitter Card Tags").

When you go on social media and share links from Joomla sites, it does not find the appropriate images on your site.

This plugin adds invisible Open Graph so that Facebook, X / Twitter, and other sites will automatically find the right image to show.

This plugin works with every extension on your site, from HikaShop and Virtuemart to K2 and SobiPro! Here's the current JED listing.

Sounds exciting? Here's how to get the extensions

Save over 60% when you sign up to the Everything Club today!

You will get access to these 3 new extensions as well as all our other extensions, templates, and Joomla training.

Expect to see even more exciting updates and new features from Joomlashack throughout 2018 and beyond!

Thanks for using Joomla!

More about Shack Forms

There's lots of Shack Forms documentation available, plus this video is a guide to getting started with Shack Forms:

What is the Contact Creator Plugin in Joomla?

: Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea; Published: 01 June 2018 01 June 2018

We've already written a tutorial on how to create Joomla contact forms using the core Joomla Contacts component.

There is also a plugin built into the core, which automates the creation of the contact form and adds new users to the contact list as soon as you create them.

This little plugin, called Contact Creator, will cut the work of adding contacts almost in half, or if used correctly, could automate it completely.

We recommend Shack Forms for any advanced Joomla contact forms, but there's a lot you can do with the Joomla core.

Shack Toolbox Is Now Live at Joomlashack

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 24 May 2018 24 May 2018

Back in March, we announced the acquisition of Perfect Web, another Joomla extension company.

As a result, three Perfect Web extensions are moving to Joomlashack.

I'm delighted to say that the first extension is here! The original name of the extension is "Perfect Everything in Everyway". We're going to call it "Shack Toolbox".

Shack Toolbox provides powerful tools to show content from 19 different sources.

Shack Toolbox has over 50 reviews and a perfect 10/10 score on the JED.

Getting Started with Shack Toolbox

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 23 May 2018 23 May 2018

We are happy to announce the release of Shack Toolbox. This is one of the extensions we recently acquired from Perfect Web.

Shack Toolbox will take your Joomla modules to a new level. You can use Shack Toolbox to display Joomla articles, multimedia content, or posts from your social networks.

The extension enables you to use many themes, animations, and visual effects including lightboxes, slideboxes, and popups.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use Shack Toolbox. We'll see how to display your site's Cookie Policy and a Joomla article.

Introduction to jInbound's Smart CTA Module

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 23 May 2018 23 May 2018

How to Present a New Content to a New Lead with the Smart CTA Module

Our inbound marketing component jInbound ships with the Smart CTA module. CTA stands for Call-To-Action.

Set this module to show laser targeted calls to action depending on the visitor status in your jInbound marketing campaigns.

Learn in this post how to display one call to action to a first-time visitor and another - to a new marketing lead.

How to Hide the Course Difficulty in OSCampus

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 21 May 2018 21 May 2018

One of our OSCampus customers asked how to remove a course difficulty from a course and a pathway frontend pages.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to achieve this with a powerful set-and-forget technique called "template overrides".

At the end of this lesson, you will be able to edit a couple of the OSCampus core files even you know nothing about coding.

How to Add the Font Awesome External Link Icon to Joomla

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 16 May 2018 16 May 2018

Small details in your website design make a big difference for its visitors.

Take care of such details, and your visitors will pay you back with their trust and repeat visits.

One of such important details is the little icon you may have seen placed in some sites, like BBC, before or after a weblink to an external site.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to manually add such helpful icon to external links in your Joomla articles.

How to Set the Joomla Article Title to h1 for Joomlashack Templates

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 14 May 2018 14 May 2018

One of our customers asked us how to wrap the title of a Joomla article in h1 tags. By default, the tag used for Joomla article titles is h2.

In this blog post, I'll show you how to change the tags used for your article titles, thanks to template overrides.

How to Hide the SEF Advance External Link Icon

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 11 May 2018 11 May 2018

One of our templates customers asked how to hide the SEF Advance external link icon.

Mind you, this icon looks pretty cool. You may even see its variations on some big sites, like BBC.

Our customer, though, seemed to prefer a conventional look for their external links. And we obliged.

In this use case tutorial, you will learn where your external links get this pretty icon from and how to hide it.

Track a jInbound Marketing Goal Completion

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 09 May 2018 09 May 2018

Inbound Marketing is all about converting a passive visitor to your site into an active lead.

You can easily achieve this goal with our cool jInbound component, even if you have no marketing experience whatsoever.

In this blog post, you will learn how to convert a passive viewer of a jInbound landing page into a lead and the lead - into a goal completed lead.

This will enable you to trace who actually responded to your marketing offer. You then will be able to effectively nurture or further market your new or goal completed leads.