The Joomlashack Blog
How to Create a Read More Link for a Single Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 August 2025 29 August 2025
By default, the "Read More" button in Joomla is designed for blog pages, showing just the first part of an article. You'll usually see it on a category or blog layout page, but not on a single article's page.
But what if you want to use a "Read More" link within a single article? Maybe you have a long article and want to show a short intro with a collapsible section for the full text. This is a common request, and while Joomla doesn't offer this feature out of the box, there's a simple workaround using the Tabs and Sliders extension.
In this post, I'll walk you through how to use this powerful Joomlashack extension to easily add a "Read More" button to any single article.
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How to Shorten Weekdays in JCalPro Monthly View
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 August 2025 22 August 2025
One of our customers asked how to switch the weekdays' format in JCal Pro monthly view from Sunday to Sun.
This shorter format will improve the JCal Pro monthly calendar view for small and mobile devices. In this blog post, I'll show you how to achieve this with Joomla Language Override technique.
Open a Popup Window When Joomla Users Visit a Page
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 16 July 2021 16 July 2021
One Joomlashack customer asked how to open a popup window automatically when a visitor opens a page. Our "Shack Toolbox" Joomla extension is the best tool to do the job.
In this short tutorial, we'll explain how to open a popup on a page load using "Shack Toolbox".
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Adding Text Between Fields in Shack Forms Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 March 2020 24 March 2020
"Shack Forms Pro" is one of the most popular Joomla extensions. It allows you to quickly and easily build nicely looking forms for your Joomla site even if you don't know how to code.
In some scenarios, you may want to mix the fields of your form with some text. In this blog post, I'll show you how to do this.
OSMap Has a New Cache With Multilingual Support
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 06 February 2020 06 February 2020
OSMap Pro is now even faster! We've released a new version with a faster caching system that supports multilingual sites.
Almost four years ago, we added a caching system to OSMap Pro. That system increased the site load speed by 1000% for sites with large sitemaps. But, there were some issues with it:
- The caching didn't work well for multilingual sites.
- The caching codebase was complex and proved to be difficult to maintain.
So starting with OSMap Pro 4.2.25, you'll find a new and improved caching system.
How to Display a LinkedIn Badge in Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 27 November 2019 27 November 2019
Shack Toolbox is really a swiss knife for your Joomla site. It allows you to display social media in a cool way. You have an option to display it:
- As a static module
- As a floating icon
- As a popup.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to display a LinkedIn badge in Joomla with Shack Toolbox, the best content display extension for Joomla.
Say Hello to Shack Slides: the Joomlashack Slideshow Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 October 2019 04 October 2019
Joomla and Joomlashack have been around for over 14 years now.
So many things have changed in that time. But, many of the very best Joomla extensions are still going strong! Watchful did a survey of the most popular Joomla extensions and the winners all launched in 2006 and 2007.
We have one extension that's been at Joomlashack since those days: Shack Slides.
Read more: Say Hello to Shack Slides: the Joomlashack Slideshow Extension
How to Integrate MailChimp with Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 May 2019 01 May 2019
One of our Shack Forms customers asked how to integrate Shack Forms (formerly known as "Perfect AJAX Popup Contact Form") and MailChimp.
In this blog post, you will learn how to create a Shack Form to sign up its submitters to a MailChimp list.
6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 12 April 2019 12 April 2019
One of our customers asked for the best way to display a "Contact Us" form on their Joomla site.
Our answer was "It depends!"
You may want to display a form prominently or subtly. You may wish to display the form on all your pages, or as a pop-up on only a few key pages.
The good news is that Shack Forms supports many different ways to display your forms.
Read more: 6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms
How to Import Events from Google Calendar to JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 February 2019 06 February 2019
One of our customers asked how to import events from an external service to JCal Pro. You can achieve this as long as the external service allows you to export your calendar events in iCal format.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to import events from Google Calendar to JCal Pro using its "Import from local ics file" feature.
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