The Joomlashack Blog
How to Open a Shack Forms Pro Form with a Button
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 21 November 2024 21 November 2024
One of our customers asked how to open a Shack Forms Pro contact form module with a button. Every form module you create in the Shack Forms Pro component provides you with an HTML code for a hyperlink that will open this particular form module.
You can then add some basic inline CSS code to this HTML link to convert it to a button and style its design as you see fit. In this blog post, you will learn how to add a Shack Forms Pro button inside a Joomla article.
Thanks to René Kreijveld, Our Dutch Translation Hero
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 01 September 2024 01 September 2024
We are thrilled to share some exciting news with our Dutch community!
Our OSCampus Pro, OSEmbed, OSVimeo, and OSYouTube extensions now fully support the Dutch language, thanks to the dedicated efforts of René Kreijveld, a phenomenal contributor to our translation projects.
Read more: Thanks to René Kreijveld, Our Dutch Translation Hero
Page URL in the Default Admin Notification Email in Shack Forms Pro
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 14 August 2024 14 August 2024
One of our customers asked about the admin notifications in Shack Forms Pro. They wanted to know if it is possible to include a URL of the form page in the admin notification email.
The admin notification emails include a hyperlink to the URL of the form page's title by default. This blog post will introduce you to how the Shack Forms Pro default admin notification email sends this hyperlink.
Read more: Page URL in the Default Admin Notification Email in Shack Forms Pro
Joomlashack is Ready for Joomla 5
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 October 2023 17 October 2023
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.
Joomlashack Will Continue to Support Joomla 3
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 August 2023 29 August 2023
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.
Joomlashack Products and Joomla 4 and 5
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 August 2023 03 August 2023
Over the last two years, we've been hard at work upgrading Joomlashack products for Joomla 4 and 5.
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 and 5 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.
OSpam-a-Not Pro is Now Available
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 May 2023 25 May 2023
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.
JCal Pro is Ready for Joomla 4
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 April 2023 18 April 2023
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.
Some Thoughts on Joomla Migrations and Joomla 5
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 April 2023 18 April 2023
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."
A JCal Pro Release Candidate is Available for Joomla 4
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 March 2023 22 March 2023
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".
Read more: A JCal Pro Release Candidate is Available for Joomla 4