The Joomlashack Blog
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
How to Add Font Awesome or Bootstrap Icons to Your Joomla Menu
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 February 2018 14 February 2018
Icons can make your Joomla site look much more professional and appealing. You have now tons of cool icons in Font Awesome and Bootstrap libraries to choose from.
Your site main menu is one of the first places your visitors will pay their attention to. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a Font Awesome or Bootstrap icon to your Joomla main menu. Even if you don't know any code.
Read more: How to Add Font Awesome or Bootstrap Icons to Your Joomla Menu
New Feature in OSMeta: Meta Description Limit Increased to 320 Characters
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 February 2018 02 February 2018
In this blog post, you will take a look at this new feature. Beginners to Joomla metadata will also learn what metadata is and how to use it.
Read more: New Feature in OSMeta: Meta Description Limit Increased to 320 Characters
Joomlashack Has Acquired jInbound for Joomla Marketing Automation
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 January 2018 31 January 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 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.
Read more: Joomlashack Has Acquired jInbound for Joomla Marketing Automation
Introducing New Reports in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 January 2018 31 January 2018
OSCampus is the best and easiest choice for a Learning Management System in Joomla. It's the software we use to support 10,000's of users at OSTraining.com.
The latest version of OSCampus adds great new reporting features.
In this post, we'll show you how the OSCampus statistics and reporting features work.
Sarah Watz from Pixpro Labs Interviewing Steve Burge
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 January 2018 23 January 2018
This week, Joomlashack.com and OSTraining.com owner Steve Burge took part in an online live show with Sarah Watz from Pixpro Labs. Sarah runs her weekly Live Show to help Joomla business owners learn from others and make their businesses more successful.
In his candid interview with Sarah, Steve lays bare how he moved his career from a teacher to a web designer and eventually to online training provider. You will also hear about one business decision that helped him turn Joomlashack from being on the verge of bankruptcy to a steadily growing Joomla extensions business.
Read more: Sarah Watz from Pixpro Labs Interviewing Steve Burge
New Feature: OSDownloads Pro Now Has Custom Fields For User Information
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 January 2018 17 January 2018
Over the last couple of months we've been working really hard on improvements to OSDownloads.
OSDownloads is the easiest way to add downloads to Joomla.
What are the new features in OSDownloads?
We've added email notifications for downloads, improved the URL structure, and enabled custom fields for download files. Starting today, you can also use custom fields for user submissions, so you can collect more information from visitors who download files.
Read more: New Feature: OSDownloads Pro Now Has Custom Fields For User Information
How to Modify the Date Displayed on K2 Content Items
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 January 2018 16 January 2018
One of our Spanish-speaking customers needed to hide the hour and minutes displayed by K2 items.
By default, Joomla content doesn't display the time. So the customer wanted their K2 dates to match the normal Joomla articles on their site.
In this tutorial, you will learn to use a language override to achieve this.
Read more: How to Modify the Date Displayed on K2 Content Items
Free Tickets to Meet Joomlashack at JoomlaDay Florida 2018
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 January 2018 15 January 2018
Are you feeling cold this week? The absolute best remedy is a trip to Florida.
Why not plan to meet us in Florida for JoomlaDay Florida in March?
The annual JoomlaDay Florida will be in Tampa, on Friday, March 2nd, Saturday, March 3rd and Sunday, March 4th.
Read more: Free Tickets to Meet Joomlashack at JoomlaDay Florida 2018
Keep Your Favicon During Joomlashack Template Update
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 09 January 2018 09 January 2018
We recently introduced the ability to update Joomlashack template from your admin area. The launch was smooth, but there was one reported issue.
When updating, custom favicons were getting overwritten. Not anymore - Joomlashack templates will automatically preserve your favicon when you update the template.
Read more: Keep Your Favicon During Joomlashack Template Update