The Joomlashack Blog
How to Hide the Course Difficulty in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 May 2018 21 May 2018
One of our OSCampus customers asked how to remove a course difficulty from a course and a pathway frontend pages.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to achieve this with a powerful set-and-forget technique called "template overrides".
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to edit a couple of the OSCampus core files even you know nothing about coding.
How to Modify the Date Displayed on K2 Content Items
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 January 2018 16 January 2018
One of our Spanish-speaking customers needed to hide the hour and minutes displayed by K2 items.
By default, Joomla content doesn't display the time. So the customer wanted their K2 dates to match the normal Joomla articles on their site.
In this tutorial, you will learn to use a language override to achieve this.
Read more: How to Modify the Date Displayed on K2 Content Items
How to Use K2 Sub-Templates in Joomla
- Written by Dan Riefstahl Dan Riefstahl
- Published: 03 April 2017 03 April 2017
Joomla provides you with a powerful and safe way to override your site's default HTML layouts.
Why does it matter to you? Making changes to Joomla's core files is often necessary.
The wrong way is to directly edit Joomla's files. If you do, you'll lose all your changes when you next update your site.
The right way is to use an override. You can place copies of any layout file into your /templates/ folder. Joomla checks this folder first before loading the original files and if it finds these files present, it uses them instead of the core files. If you're new to using overrides, check out OSTraining which has 13 great tutorials on using template overrides.
Joomlashack Gets 2nd place in iContact API Competition
- Written by Barrie North Barrie North
- Published: 01 September 2009 01 September 2009
iContact have recently released the second version of their API, and along with it, we upgraded our popular email component for Joomla we call JContact.
iContact were running a contest for API applications, and we are excited to announce that we grabbed second place!
Email marketing service iContact announced the winners of their API Challenge, a contest for partners and customers of iContact that asked them to build an integration between third party applications and iContact.
2nd place was given to Joomlashack, a team of designers, developers and technicians in the Joomla community, which came up with JContact. They received $2,000 cash. Barrie North, a user and designer of JContact explained: “We have been long-time fans of iContact. We built a component called JContact that leverages the new iContact API to integrate Joomla registration with iContact, and uses best industry opt-in practices to do so. We also gave it away for free!”
Read more: Joomlashack Gets 2nd place in iContact API Competition
Joomlaworks K2 Video Review
- Written by Barrie North Barrie North
- Published: 06 May 2009 06 May 2009
One of the more exciting new releases for Joomla 1.5 recently has been K2 from Joomlaworks.
K2 is a content construction component, which lets you create custom content types (items) for your Joomla! website. With K2, build all sorts of different types of page: news, blogs, product catalogs, work portfolio, knowledge base, download/document manager, directory listing, event listing etc.
I thought I wold take k2 for a spin in a "raw" video review. I installed K2 and put it through its paces without ever having used it before. Raw look, no reading documentation, just install it and play!
JomComment and MyBlog ready for Joomla 1.5
- Written by Tom Elliott Tom Elliott
- Published: 07 March 2008 07 March 2008
Just a month after the release of Joomla 1.5 stable, some of our very favorite extensions are rolling out ready for Joomla 1.5!
First there was WysiwygPro, the premiere editor component. And today, we announce the release of JomComment and MyBlog, ready for Joomla 1.5.
What do these two awesome extensions do?