The Joomlashack Blog
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.
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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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How to Shorten Weekdays in JCalPro Monthly View
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 January 2019 07 January 2019
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.
How to Create a Read More Link for a Single Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 January 2019 03 January 2019
By default, the "Read More" button in Joomla doesn't display on a single article page. It's normally used for showing the first part of an article on blog pages.
However, one Joomlashack user asked us if it was possible to have a "Read More" link inside a single article. Yes, there is a workaround to make this possible.
In this blog post, I will show you how to create a Read More button using the Tabs and Sliders extension.
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25 Best Joomla Extensions in 2018
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 27 September 2018 27 September 2018
Joomla extensions can significantly improve your Joomla website. They can enhance your Joomla site front end and improve the experience of your site visitors.
They can enhance your Joomla administrator panel and help you administer your site more efficiently. It's hard to imagine a website without Joomla extensions.
In this blog post, you will find our list of 25 best Joomla extensions in 2018. These are extensions that we would recommend for almost any Joomla site and which we use ourselves.
What Are the Joomla Extensions You Install on Every Site?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 July 2018 02 July 2018
If you've used Joomla for more than few days, you have opinions.
We want to hear your opinions! What are the extensions you install on every site? What extensions do you love to use?
In this blog post, I'll give you a guide to our 10 essential Joomla extensions.
Let us know your essential extensions in the comments below. We'll pick 5 commenters to win a free 1 year membership to the Everything Club!
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Major Improvements in Shack Slides Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2017 18 October 2017
One of our goals at JoomlaShack is to make things simple for you.
With that in mind, we merged Joomlashack's Visionary component into Shack Slides. Visionary was an extension that was sold separately that integrated with Shack Slides and allowed you to easily upload images. The goal is help make it simpler for you to work with slideshows.
With the same low price, Shack Slides now includes the features that made Visionary so popular.
If you install or update Shack Slides to its latest version 3.1.4, you will notice a significant change in your Joomla control panel.
How We're Improving the Admin UI for JCal Pro
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 28 June 2017 28 June 2017
We released today JCal Pro 4.2.5, a new version of the best calendar component for Joomla.
Over the last few releases, we been improving the admin UI, so that JCal Pro looks more like the core Joomla UI.
In general, we think that extensions should look like Joomla, rather than have their own, completely unique design style. This makes it much easier for users, who don't have to learn a new interface.
In this post, we'll give you a quick summary of how the JCal Pro backend evolved during the last updates.
OSYouTube Free and Pro, Version 3.3.3
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 March 2017 28 March 2017
This week we released OSYouTube Free and Pro plug-in versions 3.3.3.
OSYouTube 3.3.3 is a maintenance releases, fixing minor issues.
OSYouTube Pro 3.3.3 adds a new feature: muting videos.
OSTimer Free 2.8.3 and Pro 2.9.1 Released
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 March 2017 21 March 2017
We would like to notify OSTimer users that we just released OSTimer Free v.2.8.3 and OSTimer Pro v.2.9.1. Both are maintenance releases dealing with minor fixes.