Joomlashack is Ready for Joomla 5

Joomlashack is Ready for Joomla 5

If you have been using Joomla 4, it's time to update to Joomla 5.

Joomla 5 is a smooth, one-click update for Joomla 4 users. There are no major changes in this version. All Joomlashack extensions are fully compatible with Joomla 5.

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Joomlashack Will Continue to Support Joomla 3

Joomlashack Will Continue to Support Joomla 3

Joomla 3 support was officially retired by the Joomla team in August 2023. The Joomla community is moving forward with Joomla 4, and soon, Joomla 5.

In another post, we outlined our future plans for Joomla 4. In this post, I'll look backwards and explain our plans for Joomla 3.

In that original Joomla 4 post, I said this:

"[Our] goal is to support as many of our customers, as well as we can, for as long as we can."

We still have a good number of Joomlashack customers using Joomla 3. So to meet our goal, we've decided to support those Joomla 3 users for at least one more year.

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Joomlashack Products and Joomla 4

Joomlashack Products and Joomla 4

Over the last two years, we've been hard at work upgrading Joomlashack products for Joomla 4.

Some of the extension updates were done in an afternoon. Some of the biggest extensions took over a year to update.

As we learned more about the Joomla 4 update process, we came to decisions about each product. We evaluated how many people were using it, how difficult it was to upgrade, and whether the product still had value for users in 2023.

Here is a list of the Joomlashack products which we will continue to develop and support, plus a separate list of those that are discontinued.

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OSpam-a-Not Pro is Now Available

OSpam-a-Not Pro is Now Available

OSpam-a-not is the easiest way to protect your Joomla site from spam bots filling out your forms. The OSpam-a-not plugin uses a clever and unobtrusive technique to protect your forms from a flood of spam.

We created OSpam-a-not because we needed better Joomla spam prevention. We use OSpam-a-not ourselves, so we maintain it and update it regularly. OSpam-a-not supports all the forms in the Joomla core and many from third-party extensions.

For a long time, there was only a Free version of OSpam-a-not. This limited how much support we gave to the product. So this week, we've released a Pro version of OSpam-a-not.

The new Pro features aren't huge, but this is a first step and it means that OSpam-a-not will be supported into the future. This Pro version is now available to Everything Club members and is also available for individual purchase.

This is our 25th Pro extension. All the extensions we have for sale are now ready for Joomla 4, except for Simple Renew.

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JCal Pro is Ready for Joomla 4

JCal Pro is Ready for Joomla 5

JCal Pro is now available for Joomla 4 users! You can download JCal Pro version 5.0 and it will work on your Joomla 4 sites.

This is the 24th extension that we've updated for Joomla 4!

JCal Pro is the best calendar and event registration extension for Joomla. JCal Pro offers simplicity, flexibility, event moderation, and a robust feature set. From private and community calendars to commercial events, JCal Pro is sure to fit your calendar needs.

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Some Thoughts on Joomla Migrations and Joomla 5

Some Thoughts on Joomla Migrations and Joomla 5

This week, we were really happy to announce the release of JCal Pro for Joomla 4.

It took us around a year to update this extension. Overall, it has taken us nearly two years to prepare all our extensions for Joomla 4, and we're not finished yet.

I wrote a little about this process in our 2022 review: "We found that it was possible to move a simple extension from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 in a couple of hours. Our first upgrades were easy, and we migrated several basic extensions in one day. With bigger extensions, the upgrade time increased exponentially. Our medium-sized extensions took three or four months each to migrate to Joomla 4. The largest and most complex extensions have taken us up to a year."

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A JCal Pro Release Candidate is Available for Joomla 4

A JCal Pro Release Candidate is Available for Joomla 4

We're delighted to say that we've nearly finished completing our last major extension upgrade for Joomla 4.

There is a Release Candidate available for JCal Pro on Joomla 4.

If you are launching a new Joomla 4 site, you can install and use this latest version.

We would love to hear your real-world feedback. The more feedback we get, the faster this release can be officially marked as "Stable".

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Joomlashack 2022 Review and Thank You

Joomlashack 2022 Review and Thank You

Thank you all for your support of Joomlashack.

Joomlashack started in 2005, but our team took over the site in 2016. 

At the end of every year we write a review of what happened at Joomlashack. If you want to look back, here is our 2016 review, 2017 review2018 review, 2019 review, 2020 review and 2021 review.

We always aim to avoid writing "everything was awesome" posts. We try and give you honesty and insight into Joomlashack's year. There are always plenty of ups and downs. You'll find plenty of stories of both success and failure in these posts.

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OSCampus is Ready for Joomla 4

OSCampus is Ready for Joomla 4

OSCampus is now available for Joomla 4 users! You can download OSCampus version 3.0 and it will work on both Joomla 3 and Joomla 4. This is the 23rd extension that we've updated for Joomla 4.

OSCampus is the best way to build an online training site with Joomla.

OSCampus allows you to publish online classes. You can use OSCampus to create classes with multiple lessons and quizzes. The lessons can consist of anything from videos or text, to presentations and PDFs. Your lessons can be YouTube or Vimeo Videos, Slideshare or Google presentations, simple text or complex code.

Do you want to test and rewards your users? When users finish your classes, you can let them take a quiz, and earn certificates when they pass.

If you want a Joomla LMS, then OSCampus is absolutely your best choice!

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Smart Search Plugins for OSDownloads and Shack Locations

Smart Search Plugins for OSDownloads and Shack Locations

Over the last few weeks we've spent some time updating our extensions to use the new Smart Search feature in Joomla 4.

Both OSDownloads Pro and Shack Locations Pro have new releases with Smart Search integration.

Because of this work, those two extensions also now support the Smart Search feature in Joomla 3.

In the next couple of months, OSCampus and JCal Pro will both be available for Joomla 4 and they'll be ready for Smart Search.

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