The Joomlashack Blog
Attachments become safer with Attach File plugin for Joomla 3.4
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 06 April 2015 06 April 2015
Today we published new releases for both jInbound (version 2.1.1) and the Attach File plugin (version 1.0.3).
Three features of these releases stand out:
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What Makes Joomla A Great Platform For Inbound Marketing?
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 02 April 2015 02 April 2015
As the online marketing world has evolved and matured, experience has shown that inbound marketing is one of the most effective ways to find customers and make sales through the Internet.
Inbound marketing takes dedication, intelligence, and terrific content to succeed.
But any inbound strategy also requires helpful software tools, and Joomla is a terrific platform for organizing an effective inbound marketing campaign.
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Change Google's Page Titles and Descriptions in Joomla
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 27 March 2015 27 March 2015
What many starting site builders don't realize is that it's possible to change the information that Google displays about pages.
That means that you can optimize it for the people that are searching for your site.
We do that at Joomlashack, OSTraining, and other sites using OSMeta. This tutorial will show you how to do it as well. Let's get started.
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The Ultimate List of Blog Post Ideas
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 23 March 2015 23 March 2015
There's a reason we talk a lot about blogging here on jInbound.com ... it is very efficitve at attracting the type of people you are targetting.
But as an online marketer, it's sometimes the hardest thing to make time for and writer's block is all too common.
So if you've ever struggled with ideas for your blog, check out this excellent blogging infographic we stumbled across over at Digital Marketer.
OSMap Update Fixes Virtuemart and Weblinks Issues
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 March 2015 19 March 2015
A couple of weeks after the first release of OSMap, we're pleased to release another round of bug-fixes and improvements.
The OSMap code base has not had significant updates since 2012, so there's a lot of minor issues to solve.
Version 3.0.1, released today, solves problems with the Weblinks and Virtuemart extensions.
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Moving from HTML to Joomla: MagLab at Florida State University
- Published: 18 March 2015 18 March 2015
Over the last couple of years, the OSTraining team has been working with the team at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab for short) at Florida State University.
MagLab is a research powerhouse with discoveries in physics, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry.
But, MagLab was stuck with an old, slow, HTML website. I talked Kristen Coyne who helped their team build a new Joomla site at nationalmaglab.org.
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Captcha plugin released for jInbound
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 13 March 2015 13 March 2015
Today we have made available our first plugin for jInbound: Captcha.
This plugin works with the Joomla Captcha-reCaptcha plugin and allows you to add a captcha field to your landing pages.
When selected for your landing page form, end users must successful complete the Captcha/reCaptcha to submit their details.
jInbound is Launching this Week! (Find Out How You Can Win a FREE Copy)
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 March 2015 13 March 2015
After much anticipation, the jInbound team is excited to announce we'll be launching the Inbound marketing extension this Thursday, December 5th! Read on to learn what you'll get with your one year subscription.
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jInbound Has Arrived!
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 March 2015 13 March 2015
We're thrilled to announce the day is finally here - jInbound is available for download!
We've put together a video series to demonstrate what you'll get from jInbound, and how you can set it up.
jInbound 2.0 BETA released with new user tracking, reporting and UI enhancements
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 March 2015 13 March 2015
Today we are pleased to announce that the new version of jInbound is now available.
Version 2.0 may not look that different on the surface, but underneath the hood we’ve made some dramatic changes.
User tracking
In the first version of jInbound, user tracking was limited in a number of ways that have been greatly improved on in version 2.
First, website visitors are tracked from the moment they first visit your site and not just after they complete a form on a landing page.
Read more: jInbound 2.0 BETA released with new user tracking, reporting and UI enhancements