The Joomlashack Blog
The New Joomla 4 Administrator Template
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 December 2017 13 December 2017
Back in August, we took a first look at Joomla 4.
This was part of a series of posts on Joomla that have also covered the new Media Manager and the new installer.
Overall, I was really impressed with Joomla 4 ... except for the administrator template. The admin screens were not well-designed.
Well, I now have much better news! The first alpha version of Joomla 4 has just arrived, and the Joomla team are making great progress on the admin area.
Elisa Foltyn has a post in the Joomla Magazine with screenshots from the new admin.
How to Add Title and Descriptions to Slides in Shack Slides
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 December 2017 08 December 2017
Shack Slides is the best way to create a slideshow in Joomla.
One of Shack Slides many features is the ability to overlay titles and descriptions onto your slide images.
Shack Slides can pull content from many different sources. In this blog post, I'm going to show you how to overlay titles and descriptions whethere you're using Joomla articles, K2 items, or a custom collection in Shack Slides.
Read more: How to Add Title and Descriptions to Slides in Shack Slides
OSDownloads Pro Now Supports Custom Fields for Downloads
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 December 2017 07 December 2017
We just released OSDownloads Pro version 1.10.0.
This release introduces a new feature: custom file fields.
In this blog post, you will take a look at how custom file fields work.
Read more: OSDownloads Pro Now Supports Custom Fields for Downloads
10 Top Tips to Speed Up Your Joomla 3 Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 November 2017 23 November 2017
The faster your Joomla website loads up, the better ranking it will get from Google. And you don't have to break a bank to speed it up.
In this tutorial, you will learn top ten tips on getting your Joomla site running much more quickly, on mobile devices and on the desktop.
New Features in OSDownloads, Including Email Notifications
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 November 2017 21 November 2017
We just released OSDownloads Free 1.7.7 and OSDownloads Pro 1.9.8. Both releases introduce new features.
In this blog post, you will take a look at the new OSDownloads admin sidebar and email notifications settings.
Read more: New Features in OSDownloads, Including Email Notifications
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: