The Joomlashack Blog
The Complete Guide to Joomla Cache Options
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 December 2020 07 December 2020
Some of our members are trying to make their Joomla sites run more quickly. They've seen caching options, which promise to help speed up their sites. But, there are several caching options available.
This blog post explains what options are available and how you can enable them.
This tutorial borrows from this article by Klas Berlič. All of the detailed technical explanations and image are from Klas, so a big thank you to him.
How to Test the Account of Any Joomla User
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 26 November 2020 26 November 2020
The Shack User Switching plugin is for Joomla administrators and allows you to login as any user, but using your own password. You can mimic anyone else's login and see exactly what they see.
This is enormously helpful for us here at Joomlashack. This enables us check what our users see when they login. We can easily troubleshoot problems.
Here's how to use the Shack User Switching plugin:
How to Create Layout Overrides in Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 24 November 2020 24 November 2020
Joomla makes it possible to re-design almost any aspect of your site.
In a previous post, we explained how template overrides work. In this post, we're going to talk about layout overrides.
Layout overrides are more narrow and specific than template overrides. Layout overrides allow you to customize small portions of a design, for example: social icons, article titles and tags.
Create Joomla Blog Layouts That Users Can Select
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 23 November 2020 23 November 2020
One Joomlashack user wanted to create custom blog layouts that their users could chose from.
The user wanted to keep to choose different layouts in different situations. They wanted to use the default blog layout in some situations, and use a new design for some blog pages.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a custom layout and how to control it via your menu links.
How to Solve the Joomla Message: "AJAX Loading Error: Not Found"
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 November 2020 22 November 2020
Did you ever see this message when trying to update your Joomla site?
AJAX Loading Error: Not Found
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you a few options for getting rid of this error and smoothly running your Joomla update.
Read more: How to Solve the Joomla Message: "AJAX Loading Error: Not Found"
Joomla Video Grids with OSYouTube and Template Overrides
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 19 November 2020 19 November 2020
I'm going to show you how to create a video gallery on your Joomla site.
OSYouTube is the best Joomla plugin for embedding YouTube videos in Joomla. Template overrides are the best way to safely change the design of your site.
We're going to use OSYouTube and template overrides to create a stylish grid of videos.
Read more: Joomla Video Grids with OSYouTube and Template Overrides
How to Stop the Joomla Editor From Removing Code
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 November 2020 18 November 2020
Your Joomla site was built on code. The right code in the right place brings your site to life. However, there are many places where it can also be a huge security risk.
If you allow people to use PHP, Javascript, iframes or other code inside your content, you will greatly increase the chance that your site might be compromised by a malicious code. To minimize this risk, by default Joomla restricts the code you can insert into articles.
The downside to this is that some common code snippets, from well-trusted sources, will be blocked. For example, Joomla doesn’t allow you to insert embed codes from sites like YouTube and Google Maps.
How to Create a Joomla Contact Form
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 November 2020 18 November 2020
This tutorial will show you how to create a Joomla contact form.
We're going to show you two different approaches:
- Using the default Contacts components, so you can create a Joomla contact form without installing any extra extensions.
- Using the powerful Shack Forms extension, so you can take advantage of extra features for your Joomla contact form.
How to Use Joomla's PHP Error Reporting
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 November 2020 17 November 2020
If you have a problem on your Joomla site, one of the most important steps you can take is to find an error message.
You can find errors more easily by turning your Joomla error reporting to maximum. From there you can take step-by-step action to find the cause of the problem.
This tutorial will take you step-by-step on how to change your Joomla Error Reporting setting to its Maximum or Development option. You will learn to do this either from your Joomla administrator panel or using Joomla configuration.php file.
Add Custom Javascript to Your Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 November 2020 16 November 2020
One Joomlashack member wanted to add Javascript to their site, but didn't feel comfortable enough to modify any existing files.
If you want to add custom Javascript to your Joomla site without modifying any existing files, we recommend the "Add Custom JS" plugin.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to safely load your custom Javascript.