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Social Networking Extensions for Joomla
- Published: 20 June 2014 20 June 2014
Alex Andreae is an experienced Joomla developer who focuses on social apps.
In this talk, he introduces you to the complete world of social tools.
Alex covers social network authentication, share buttons, comments, Facebook Open Graph, Twitter Cards, Google Structured data and more.
How to Correctly Duplicate a Joomla Template
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 19 June 2014 19 June 2014
One of the mistakes I see often by new Joomla users is modifying a core Joomla template and using it directly.
The problems occur when updating Joomla and all their changes are lost in the process.
The solution is to create a copy of the template and modify the copy instead. This will preserve your changes when you update Joomla.
OSShow - a Simple Joomla Slideshow Module
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 18 June 2014 18 June 2014
This week, we have another nice little extension for you: OSShow.
OSShow is a lightweight slideshow module.
The OSShow Module will scan a folder on the server and flip through all the images. Using the Weblinks component, you can also add a name, description and URL for each of the images.
We made the slideshow easy so you can focus on managing your content instead of configuring it.
Import HTML Sites into Joomla with HTML2Articles
- Published: 17 June 2014 17 June 2014
One of our OSTraining members had a very old HTML site.
They wanted to import that old site into Joomla and were wondering how to do it.
HTML2Articles is a very good solution for this. It will take your old HTML files and import them as Joomla articles.
Here's how HTML2Articles works:
A Beginner Guide to Joomla CCK's
- Published: 13 June 2014 13 June 2014
The acronym "CCK" comes from Drupal and stands for "Content Construction Kit".
A CCK allows you to expand the information you add to your site, beyond simply a title and body field.
In this presentation, Jon Neubauer introduces you to all of the popular Joomla CCK solutions. Jon looks at K2, ZOO and Seblod.
If your website has complex content requirements, you'll want to watch Jon's talk:
Joomla Website Security by Tony Perez
- Published: 13 June 2014 13 June 2014
Sucuri is one of the biggest names in website security, keeping many thousands of Joomla and WordPress sites safe.
Tony Perez is the co-founder and CEO of Sucuri. He gave this talk on Joomla security at Joomla Day Atlanta.
Tony starts by explaining that between 85% and 90% of hosting companies are infected at some point. Tony talks about all the different ways that a website and server can be compromised.
OSPositions - Always Show Joomla Module Positions
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 08 June 2014 08 June 2014
OSPositions is a simple Joomla plugin that keeps adding tp=1 in your URL so you can view your template's module positions on all pages.
Now you can navigate through your site and see where your module positions are.
This is a dream come true for people building sites that use many modules.
Here's how to use OSPositions ...
Read more: OSPositions - Always Show Joomla Module Positions
OSUrl - Find the Real URL of a Joomla Page
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 03 June 2014 03 June 2014
Joomla, along with all dynamic websites, has at least two version of each URL.
There is the Search-Engine Friendly (SEF) version which contain keywords that are useful and easy to remember. There are also the "original" version of the URL that is longer and harder to remember.
However, sometimes developers and site-builder do need to know the original URL. We've just released a module called OSurl that will help you to do just that.
OSURL will display the original Joomla URL for any page you visit.
Joomla in the Enterprise with Sears
- Published: 30 May 2014 30 May 2014
Cory Webb used to run a Joomla design shop, but since last year he's been working for Sears.
His role at Sears is to manage an internal Joomla website for over 1000 Sears associates.
In this video, Cory talks about the server architecture, workflows and user authentication methods used to power this Joomla site.
Some of the tools he talks about include Jenkins CI server, GitHub, JomSocial, Easyblog, and AcyMailing. Cory discusses how a lot of these tools can be used in non-enterprise websites.
A Joomla Core Developer Introduces You to Joomla 3.3
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 May 2014 27 May 2014
Over the next few weeks we're going to be publishing videos of some great presentations from Joomla Day Atlanta.
The event featured some really excellent Joomla and PHP presentations.
This week we showcase Michael Babker from the Joomla core team. His presentation was called "Looking at Joomla! 3.3" and he talks about what's new in the latest version of Joomla.
Micheal makes a major announcement at the 14 minute mark, so be sure not to miss that.
Read more: A Joomla Core Developer Introduces You to Joomla 3.3