The Joomlashack Blog
How to Add Modules to the Joomla Dashboard
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 October 2025 24 October 2025
It's possible to customize the Joomla dashboard panel for your users.
In particular, it can be useful to customize the dashboard panel area that users see when they first log in.
Here's how to modify the Joomla dashboard admin area to show the information that you or your client requires:
How to Manage PDFs and Other Documents with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 October 2025 17 October 2025
When we get two people inside a few minutes in our support system asking how to do the same thing, it's time for a tutorial ...
This week, two Joomlashack members were asking how they can upload documents and link to them from articles. Our recommendation is an extension called OSDownloads.
Read more: How to Manage PDFs and Other Documents with Joomla
How to Use JavaScript or PHP Code in a Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 September 2025 05 September 2025
By default, Joomla articles do not support the use of JavaScript or PHP code. This restriction is in place for security reasons, as allowing arbitrary code could pose serious risks to your site.
However, many advanced users need to include such code in their content. This tutorial will walk you through how to safely add JavaScript or PHP code to a Joomla article.
Read more: How to Use JavaScript or PHP Code in a Joomla Article
How Do Joomla Menu Levels Work?
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 15 August 2025 15 August 2025
Joomla menus allow you to create multiple levels of navigation. This is essential for building sub-menus such as dropdowns.
Sometimes, you may only want to display one or two levels from your menu. For example, you might show the top-level links in your main navigation, and display sub-links separately in a sidebar menu.
In this post, we’ll show you how to display specific menu levels inside a Joomla sidebar module.
How to Embed YouTube Videos in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 August 2025 08 August 2025
Embedding YouTube videos is one of the most popular ways to enhance your Joomla site.
The OSYouTube plugin is the fastest and easiest way to do it. All you need to do is paste the video URL directly into your article.
OSYouTube is available in a completely free version. Here's how it works:
5 Essential Health Checks for Your Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 August 2025 01 August 2025
Over the last few years, we've helped a lot of people fix problems with their Joomla sites.
Although the problems sound different, we've found that many can be fixed with only five solutions.
If you implement all five, you'll have a safer, healthier and faster Joomla site.
Here are those five solutions.
How to Search and Replace Across a Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 July 2025 25 July 2025
Sometimes, you have a piece of text, an image, a URL, or even code that appears in multiple places across your Joomla 5 site. Normally, replacing them can be a tedious process:
- You open one page.
- You make the change.
- You close the page.
- You repeat the process on the next page, and so on.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to run a search and replace across your entire Joomla 5 site—all in one fell swoop.
Play MP3 Files on Your Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 July 2025 04 July 2025
One of our customers asked how to play MP3 audio files on their Joomla site. Such files can significantly enhance your site content and help you achieve your site goals.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to embed an MP3 audio file in a Joomla article. You will learn to achieve this using the AllVideos plugin from JoomlaWorks.net.
How to Link to PDFs and Other Files in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 June 2025 27 June 2025
One of the things that many people use their websites for is sharing documents. Many organizations produce a large number of documents and need to make them available on their site.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to share PDF documents in Joomla.
How to Add Video or Audio to a Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 09 May 2025 09 May 2025
In this Joomla media tutorial, we'll show you how to embed video and audio into a Joomla article.
By default, Joomla doesn't have much support for multimedia. You can add images, but it's not possible to embed YouTube videos, Soundcloud audio, X / Twitter posts and other multimedia content.
If you do want to add video or audio to Joomla article, you will need an extension.