The Joomlashack Blog
How to Translate Joomla's Contact Form
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 March 2018 22 March 2018
If you follow our blog, you have a good idea of how to handle content on your multilingual Joomla site.
Now take a look at how you can translate Joomla's extensions.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to create a contact form that is available in both English and French.
jInbound is Live on Joomlashack With Free and Pro Versions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 March 2018 20 March 2018
Today, we’re delighted to add another powerful extension to Joomlashack.
Joomlashack users can now download jInbound, which is the most powerful marketing automation extension for Joomla. jInbound has all the key features you need from an email marketing platform, including automated emails, easy form creation, a CRM system, and detailed reporting.
The goal of jInbound is to help more Joomla users to grow their businesses.
Read more: jInbound is Live on Joomlashack With Free and Pro Versions
How to Secure Your Joomla Site During Installation
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 March 2018 16 March 2018
Keeping your Joomla website from getting hacked isn't hard. However, there are some critical basics that you simply must get right first.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make your website safe during Joomla installation.
Read more: How to Secure Your Joomla Site During Installation
How to Create a Multilingual Joomla Blog
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 March 2018 13 March 2018
During the last few posts on how to translate Joomla, you have seen how to translate articles and menus.
In this tutorial, you're going to take that a step further. You will learn how to translate a whole area of your site.
You're going to make a blog page for both your English and your French visitors.
Joomlashack Has Acquired Perfect Web
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 March 2018 01 March 2018
Joomlashack creates extensions and templates to make your Joomla sites better.
Over the last 11 years, the Joomlashack team have built popular and powerful extensions including OSMap, OSEmbed, OSMeta and OSCampus.
Joomlashack has also successfully acquired JCal Pro, jInbound and Tabs and Sliders from other developers.
Today we’re delighted to announce another acquisition that allows Joomlashack to move closer to being a one-stop destination for all your Joomla needs.
How to Add More Languages to a Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 February 2018 27 February 2018
In the "Installing a New Multilingual Joomla Site" tutorial, you learned how to create a new multilingual Joomla website. This is the easiest method because Joomla does so many things automatically for you.
However, not all of us are going to be lucky enough to be in that situation. Some will need to translate an existing unilingual website. That is what you will learn by the end of this tutorial.
Why the www. Domain Mismatch Causes Joomla Errors
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 February 2018 23 February 2018
Many website builders experience problems with their site for a surprising reason: the www version of your site and the non-www version are the not the same address.
This is not a Joomla-specific issue, but it can cause problems with Joomla sites.
This issue can manifest itself as login failures, WYSIWYG editors failing to load or failing to save content, javascript execution halted with error messages.
In this blog post, you will learn what causes the www domain mismatch and what to do to avoid it.
Read more: Why the www. Domain Mismatch Causes Joomla Errors
Introducing the Joomlashack Redesign
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 21 February 2018 21 February 2018
We are happy to announce that we launched a new Joomlashack design this week.
In Joomlashack we strive to keep things simple. So we aimed at making the new design as minimalistic as we possibly could.
In this blog post, you will learn what the new design is, and what changes you'll see as a Joomlashack user. We'll also explain how we executed the redesign with only five minutes of downtime.
How to Embed Google Maps in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 February 2018 21 February 2018
Google Maps are some of the trickiest things to embed in any Joomla website. Or, at least they used to be. That's no longer the case, thanks to the OSEmbed extension.
Using OSEmbed, You can embed Google Maps 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.
How to Make Your Joomla Content Look More Interesting and Exciting
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 February 2018 20 February 2018
If you followed "The Easiest Workflow to Add Your Joomla Content" tutorial, you learned and practiced the easiest and fastest way to add content to your Joomla site. You ended that tutorial by creating about a dozen articles on your site.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make those articles look more interesting and more exciting. Specifically, you will work on formatting the text, adding images and links, and choosing the best options for your articles.
At the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to do the following:
- Format the text of your Joomla articles.
- Add images to your content.
- Add links to different articles and to other sites.
- Choose the best publishing, article, and metadata options for your articles.
Read more: How to Make Your Joomla Content Look More Interesting and Exciting