The Joomlashack Blog
You Can Now Safely Create Custom Template Overrides in Wright
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 17 November 2017 17 November 2017
Starting in Wright 3.6, you can safely add custom template overrides to the Wright base template and our commercial templates.
This will make possible to tweak the templates without touching the core Wright files, and protect your changes for future Wright updates.
Read more: You Can Now Safely Create Custom Template Overrides in Wright
Building Joomla Extensions With Component Creator
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2017 15 November 2017
In recent month, we've released classes showing you how to code your own Joomla extensions. These 4 classes covered how to create components, modules, and plugins.
In this week's class, "Building Joomla Extensions With Component Creator", we show you how to use the Component Creator service to speed up your development. This online tool quickly creates the complete, installable framework for your site.
In this class, Cory shows you how to create a com_movies extension with reviews, release dates, actors, genres and much more. All this without writing a line of code!
Join Joomlashack University or the Everything Club to get access to all these development classes.
Introducing The New Joomla 4 Installer
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2017 15 November 2017
Over the last few weeks, we've been previewing what's to come in Joomla 4.
We took a first look at Joomla 4, and mentioned that the Wright Framework now works on Joomla 4 sites! We also wrote about the new Media Manager in Joomla 4.
This week, we're going to look at the new installation process in Joomla 4.
The new installer is designed to be much easier to use, and to be fully A11Y compliant.
How to Create HikaShop Product Characteristics and Variants
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 November 2017 13 November 2017
Last week, one of our customers asked how to set up HikaShop product variants.
HikaShop is one of our favorite e-commerce Joomla extensions.
We created the "How to Use the Hikashop Extension" video class to make learning HikaShop fun.
Read more: How to Create HikaShop Product Characteristics and Variants
What's New in OSCampus Pro 1.1.6
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 November 2017 01 November 2017
OSCampus is the best Learning Management system available for Joomla.
We rely on it heavily to power our popular OSTraining.com video library.
Here's what's new in version 1.1.6 of OSCampus:
What Extensions Should OSMap Support?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 October 2017 26 October 2017
OSMap is the most popular sitemap extension for Joomla.
Currently, OSMap supports 7 extensions, using plugins from Joomlashack. These are Content, Weblinks, K2, Kunena, Mosets Tree, SobiPro, and Virtuemart.
Over 40 more extensions are supported, thanks to other developers.
We'd like to add official OSMap support for more extensions. Do you have any suggestions for extensions that are not yet covered, or that Joomlashack should support?
Ideally we're looking for extensions that meet these criteria:
- Are used on a large number of Joomla sites
- Contain a lot of valuable content
Click here to let us know what extensions OSMap should support.
How to Customize Joomla Articles with the Wright Framework
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2017 18 October 2017
Joomlashack's Wright free template framework is responsive, light, fast and easy-to-use. Wright makes it easier to customize your website's look and feel.
In this post, you will learn how to customize the design of Joomla articles, even if you don't know CSS or HTML.
Read more: How to Customize Joomla Articles with the Wright Framework
Major Improvements in Shack Slides Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2017 18 October 2017
One of our goals at JoomlaShack is to make things simple for you.
With that in mind, we merged Joomlashack's Visionary component into Shack Slides. Visionary was an extension that was sold separately that integrated with Shack Slides and allowed you to easily upload images. The goal is help make it simpler for you to work with slideshows.
With the same low price, Shack Slides now includes the features that made Visionary so popular.
If you install or update Shack Slides to its latest version 3.1.4, you will notice a significant change in your Joomla control panel.
What's New in JCal Pro 4.3?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 September 2017 26 September 2017
We are happy to announce the release of JCal Pro 4.3.
This is a major release that introduces significant improvements to the database and code. End users will also notice some improvements in JCal Pro user interface.
Here's a rundown of what's new in JCal Pro 4.3:
Joomla 3.8 Launched With a Secret Feature
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 September 2017 21 September 2017
There's an Easter Egg hidden in the new Joomla 3.8.
Earlier this week, we wrote about (almost) all the new features in Joomla 3.8.
Well, it turns out we missed one, and it wasn't mentioned in any of the launch announcements either.
Thanks to this patch, the Articles screen now has much more powerful features.
Go to Content > Articles in your Joomla site, and you'll be able to use multi-select filters to search for articles. This will be very useful for sites with large numbers of articles. This feature supports Categories, Access Levels, Authors, and Tags.