How Joomla Freelancers Get Paid Faster

How Freelance Web Developers Get Paid Faster

Do you know what’s great about being a freelancer building Joomla websites? The convenience technology can provide, such as Joomla templates. Do you know what’s NOT great about being a freelancer building Joomla websites? Getting stiffed by a customer.

In fact, freelancers everywhere are getting stiffed by their customers (just check out the World's Longest Invoice). You didn’t become a Joomla freelancer to be in the business of collections. If only there was an equivalent to Joomla templates for getting paid!

Although there is no official template, there are in fact specific steps you can take to secure your chances of receiving money when owed. In this blog post, you will learn 7 ways to help you get paid faster.

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How to Rename Folders with the JCE File Browser

How to Rename Folders with JCE File Browser

JCE is a great alternative to the default Joomla editor. It offers tons of useful features, including a component to manage media files.

This is one of the main reasons we use JCE here at Joomlashack. In this short tutorial, we'll show you how to rename folders with the JCE File Browser.

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Upload Your Site Backups to Google Drive Automatically with Akeeba Backup

Upload Your Site Backups to Google Drive Automatically with Akeeba Backup

One of our customers asked how to automate uploading backups of their Joomla site to Google Drive. They were creating backups with the popular Akeeba Backup Joomla extension.

Having a spare copy of your Joomla site backup outside your web server is a very good practice. You will always have a backup of your site, whatever happens to your hosting.

In this blog post, you will learn how to set Akeeba Backup Pro to automatically upload your Joomla site backups to Google Drive.

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Why We Use Watchful for Joomla Site Maintenance

Why We Use Watchful for Joomla Site Maintenance

Joomlashack is one of the most popular Joomla sites.

Actually, that's not really true. Joomlashack is actually over 40 Joomla sites.

We've got at least 20 sites for template demos. We've got extension demo sites, test sites, client sites and more. Joomlashack.com is a big and sprawling network of sites.

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Installing a New Multilingual Joomla Site

Installing a New Multilingual Joomla Site

In this tutorial, we show you how to install a brand new multilingual Joomla site. If you already have a unilingual Joomla site and want to add another language, skip this post.

In this blog post, you will learn:

  • The best place to install Joomla
  • The best way to install a multilingual Joomla site

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How to Troubleshoot Joomla SEF URLs

How to Troubleshoot Joomla SEF URLs

In "The Complete Guide to Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs," you learned how to make your Joomla URLs easy-to-remember and easy-to-use.

This will help your site in the eyes of both human visitors and search engines.

In this blog post, we are going to give you some troubleshooting tips, in case you would like to set up the search engines friendly URLs exactly how you want.

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Why You Should Care About Joomla Website Accessibility

Why You Should Care About Websites Accessibility

Websites are an essential resource in many aspects of our lives. It is important that your Joomla site is accessible to everyone. This will ensure equal access for people with disabilities.

Your Joomla website should be interactive for disabled people. It must ensure their access to printed, audio and visual media on your Joomla site.

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The Complete Guide to Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs

The Complete Guide to Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs

A URL is your Joomla site address.

Your site visitors and search engines will be finding your site or its pages using the URL.

In this blog post, you are going to learn about making Joomla URLs easy-to-remember and easy-to-use. This will help your site in the eyes of both human visitors and search engines.

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The Beginners Guide to Joomla Metadata

The Beginners Guide to Joomla Metadata

In "The Absolute Beginners Guide to Joomla's Aliases" you learned how Joomla's URLs are actually set up in your Joomla site. Now it's time to talk about Joomla metadata.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to control what appears in Google search results when people find your site. We'll show you how to modify Joomla's meta title and meta description.

We highly recommend you download a copy of OSMeta before trying this tutorial. OSMeta is the best way to manage your Joomla metadata.

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How to Control Joomla Metadata with OSMeta

How to Control Joomla Metadata with OSMeta

If you wish to update titles or descriptions of your Joomla content items, you normally need to open up each of them one-by-one. The more content items you may want to edit, the more time-consuming this process becomes.

A Joomla extension called "OSMeta" will make this task much easier for you. I'm going to show you how to use it to quickly update all the titles and descriptions for your Joomla content items in one screen.

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