The Joomlashack Blog
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.
How to Create Dummy Content in Joomla Articles
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 April 2025 17 April 2025
One of our Joomlashack members asked us how to make creating Joomla articles less time-consuming. Is there any way to create content on a mass scale, like, for example, ten Joomla articles, in one go?
Yes, with just a few clicks, you can create Joomla content quickly using our OSContent component.
How to Embed Spotify Songs in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 March 2025 28 March 2025
If you've been working with Joomla for a while, you probably know how tricky embeds used to be.
Before OSEmbed came along, getting external content like Spotify songs into your articles wasn’t exactly smooth sailing.
In this quick tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to easily embed your favorite Spotify tracks right inside your Joomla articles.
How to Embed Google Sheets in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 March 2025 14 March 2025
Google Sheets is Google's version of Microsoft Excel.
At Joomlashack, we have many members who rely on spreadsheets, so we created tools to help. Did you know you can also send Joomla forms results directly to Google Sheets?
Google Sheets is a powerful tool that integrates seamlessly with Joomla. In this guide, I'll show you how to embed Google Sheets into your Joomla site using just a URL.