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Replacements in Joomla with ReReplacer and Regular Expressions
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 01 February 2016 01 February 2016
ReReplacer by RegularLabs is an extremely popular extension. It helps you easily replace almost any content in Joomla. We have a beginner tutorial on using ReReplacer.
This is a more advanced tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn how to update elements on your site that are similar, but not exactly the same. You can do that with the ReReplacer component and regular expressions.
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How to Embed Spotify Songs in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 January 2016 28 January 2016
If you use Joomla, then you've had problems with embeds.
Before the launch of the OSEmbed extension, it was difficult to reliably embed any outside sources into your Joomla articles.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to embed Spotify songs into Joomla.
How to Embed SoundCloud Audio Files in Joomla
- Published: 22 January 2016 22 January 2016
If you use Joomla, then you may have encountered problems with embeds.
Before the launch of the OSEmbed extension, it was difficult to reliably embed any outside sources into your Joomla articles.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how easy it is to use OSEmbed to include SoundCloud audio files in Joomla content.
How to Embed Joomla Slideshare Presentations
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 January 2016 18 January 2016
If you use Joomla, then you've had problems with embeds.
Before the launch of the OSEmbed extension, it was difficult to reliably embed any outside sources into your Joomla articles.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how easy it is to embed Slideshare presentations into Joomla.
The Easiest Way to Switch Editor in Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 14 January 2016 14 January 2016
When I'm using Joomla, I often need to change my editor settings.
Sometimes I'm working with HTML or CSS code, so I choose "No editor" from my account settings. Other times, I use JCE for writing blog posts.
This process is slow because it requires me to close the article I'm editing, go to my account settings to choose a different editor, and finally go back to edit my article.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to quickly change the editor without losing your page.
Add Images to Joomla's Most Read Module
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 12 January 2016 12 January 2016
Joomla's "Most Read" module displays the links for your most popular articles.
However, what if you want to make the module more attractive by displaying the article's intro image above each link? Template overrides allow us to make this possible.
I'm going to share with you how to display intro images in the Most Read module.
Unable to load user with ID Error in K2 for Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 08 January 2016 08 January 2016
One of our members is having an error in a Joomla site that involves a K2 item. The error makes reference to a user ID:
JUser: :_load: Unable to load user with ID: 73By searching the user ID in the administrator area, I realized that the user account doesn't exist; the account was probably deleted.
In this post, I'm going to show you how to fix this error with a couple of clicks.
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How to Add Page Content Particles in Gantry 5 for Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 08 January 2016 08 January 2016
Gantry 5 is a very powerful template framework for Joomla that a lot of our members use.
A common concern for Gantry 5 users is that articles are not being displayed in some pages. This is controlled by "Particles" in Gantry. If you're not sure what Particles are read this blog post from our Gantry 5 series.
In this short tutorial, I'm going to show you how to add a Page Content Particle to your Gantry 5 template so that your articles are visible.
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How to Embed Tweets in Joomla Articles
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 January 2016 06 January 2016
If you tried share tweets in your Joomla site, then you've had probably had issue with Joomla Tweets.
Before the launch of the OSEmbed extension, it was difficult to reliably embed any outside sources into your Joomla articles.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how easy it is to embed tweets from Twitter into Joomla.
Hide Joomla URLs from Google with OSMap Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 January 2016 05 January 2016
OSMap is the easiest and most reliable way to create a Joomla sitemap.
OSMap automatically generates and updates the sitemap you send to Google. However, in some cases, you may need to exclude specific URLs from the sitemap because you don't want them to be indexed by search engines.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to exclude individual URLs from your sitemap with OSMap Pro.