The Joomlashack Blog
Your Ultimate Guide to Joomla 4
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 April 2021 21 April 2021
Joomla 4 is getting closer and closer!
The Joomla team have released the beta version of Joomla 4. This version is not ready for use on your live sites, but it is 100% ready for testing.
Get Your Google Maps API Keys for Joomla Extensions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 April 2021 20 April 2021
The Google Maps API is used to power good number of Joomla extensions, including some here at Joomlashack: JCal Pro, jInbound, and Shack Locations.
Recently, Google introduced a few changes to their Maps API. They added extra functionality, new pricing, and enforced the use of an API key. Previously, you could use the Maps API without a key, but that's no longer possible.
In this guide, we'll show you how to obtain your Google Maps API key for a production site and run your Joomlashack extensions with full Google Maps API support.
Read more: Get Your Google Maps API Keys for Joomla Extensions
Use Links to Automatically Fill a Shack Forms Field
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 April 2021 19 April 2021
Imagine that you create a link that says "Click here to book a trip to London". When your visitor clicks the link, they go to your booking form and "London" is already selected in the form.
This sounds pretty awesome, right? It makes things really easy for your visitors and increases the chance that they will buy from you.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to modify links so you can automatically make form selections for your visitors. We'll be using the Shack Forms extension.
Read more: Use Links to Automatically Fill a Shack Forms Field
Shack Open Graph Has Improved Facebook and Twitter Support
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 April 2021 14 April 2021
When you share Joomla links on Facebook and Twitter, those sites don't find the correct information ... unless you use Shack Open Graph.
This extension adds Open Graph and Twitter Card tags to your site. These tags help Facebook and Twitter pull the correct image and description from your site. Each social network requires different images sizes. For example, the header images on our blog posts are 2000 px wide and 900 px high. But our Facebook images are 1200 px wide and 630 px high and our Twitter images are normally 1200 px high and 675 px high.
In this week's release of Shack Open Graph, it's even easier to make your site look good on social media.
Read more: Shack Open Graph Has Improved Facebook and Twitter Support
How to Change Joomla's Date and Time Format
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 April 2021 13 April 2021
Joomla comes with a standard format for showing dates and times.
However, there may be a site you have created that will need to use a custom date and time format. In this tutorial, I will show you a step-by-step method on changing your date and time format for articles.
This method will use no coding and will also introduce you to Language Overrides, one of Joomla's best and most underappreciated features.
How to Design Individual Joomla Pages With CSS
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 12 April 2021 12 April 2021
HD-Custom CSS is a simple but very useful module that allows you to add CSS styles to individual Joomla pages.
Without editing your template files, HD-Custom CSS makes it possible to quickly and easily apply CSS changes.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to alter the background color and font for just one page.
How to Catch Every Important Error on Your Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 April 2021 08 April 2021
Earlier this year, I was working with the Joomlashack team on a project. We were busy and the work was difficult.
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that sales were slow, but I didn't pay too much attention.
Perhaps it was just a bad day? Maybe things will improve in the afternoon?
Then I got an email. It looked like this:
Read more: How to Catch Every Important Error on Your Joomla Site
How to Embed Facebook Posts in Joomla
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 06 April 2021 06 April 2021
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 Facebook posts into Joomla. The OSEmbed Pro plugin allows you to embed Facebook links in Joomla.
How to Create Template Overrides for Joomla Articles
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 05 April 2021 05 April 2021
We have covered Joomla template overrides in this blog and in our Joomlashack University video class.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine template overrides and the core Template component.
I'm going to show you how to create a custom layout that you can use for individual Joomla articles.
Read more: How to Create Template Overrides for Joomla Articles
How to Solve Common Joomla Installation Problems
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 30 March 2021 30 March 2021
Our customers often ask us about Joomla installation problems. As you're going through a Joomla installation process, there are several possible issues that you might encounter.
In this tutorial we aim to help you solve as many of those issues as possible.