The Joomlashack Blog
4 Tips for Digital Marketers
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 January 2015 08 January 2015
Believe it or not, but back in the day, marketing was centered around advertising in offline magazines and newspapers or cold calling businesses out of nowhere.
In today's digital age, these marketing tactics and strategies are like dinosaurs. This is due to the Internet and its increasing adoption rate.
It seems like everyone and their grandmother is now using the Internet for all kinds of reasons. Not to mention, smartphones, tablets, and other consumer devices are hitting the market at a feverish pace.
Inbound Marketing: Why Should You Even Care?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 January 2015 05 January 2015
Everyone is talking about Inbound Marketing.
What is it? How Does it Work? It it right for you?
OSDownloads - Social Sharing for Joomla Downloads
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 December 2014 23 December 2014

We're really happy to announce a complete overhaul of the extension and the release of OSDownloads Pro.
OSDownloads Pro allows you to ask users to enter an email address or to share your site on X / Twitter or Facebook before downloading files. You can also add start and finish publishing dates for your files.
Read more: OSDownloads - Social Sharing for Joomla Downloads
jInbound 2.0.5 released with custom CSS support
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 23 December 2014 23 December 2014
Today we released a new version of jInbound — 2.0.5 — that supports custom CSS for styling landing pages.
Along with the existing custom template editor, custom CSS support allows you to design and implement any landing page design.
No extra plugins are required for this feature.
Google Analytics plugin released
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 23 December 2014 23 December 2014
Today we released the third plugin for jInbound, Google Analytics.
Since jInbound uses it's own template engine, most sites using jInbound will not utilize Google Analytics set up on the main Joomla template.
As an additional feature, you can place a different Gogole Analytics tracking code on each jInbound Landing page.
OSDownloads Pro is Here With Many New Features
- Published: 19 December 2014 19 December 2014
OSDownloads is the easiest way to add downloads to Joomla.
We're really happy to announce that we've given the extension a complete overhaul and also have OSDownloads Pro available.
There's no part of OSDownloads that isn't better with today's release. We've improved the user interface. We've added features. We've cleaned up the code. By a long distance, this is the biggest ever update for OSDownloads.
Here's an overview of what's new in OSDownloads:
Beta 3 of Simple Renew is Here
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 December 2014 14 December 2014
Simple Renew is the easiest way to create a membership site with Joomla.
We're delighted to say we've released Beta 3 of Simple Renew.
We're getting closer and closer to a stable release of Simple Renew. This extension is now powering Joomlashack.com and an increasing number of live sites.
So what's new in Beta 3?
4 Video Tutorials for Ozio Gallery in Joomla
- Published: 14 December 2014 14 December 2014
Many OSTraining members are looking for a simple, attractive photo gallery for their sites.
In Joomla, one of the simplest and most attractive options is Ozio Gallery.
Ozio will automatically import images that you have stored on Flickr and Google+ (woohoo! We found a use for Google+).
Here's how Ozio Gallery works:
New JCal Pro File Upload plugin released
- Written by Vic Drover Vic Drover
- Published: 12 December 2014 12 December 2014
Following yesterday's release announcement for the Captcha plugin, we are proud to announce the release of our second plugin, the File Upload add-on.
Like Captcha, the File Upload add-on creates another field in the form editor.
When selected for your landing page form, end users can attach a file with their contact details. This is very useful for recruiters for example.
New OSContent Pro with K2 Support
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 09 December 2014 09 December 2014
OSContent is the easiest way to quickly add content to Joomla.
Now, with the arrival of OSContent Pro, it's also the easiest way to add content to K2.
For a long time, OSContent has allowed to create or delete Joomla articles and categories. Now, you can create or delete K2 content in the same easy way.





