The Joomlashack Blog
Make Shack Locations More Powerful with the Built-In Map Search Feature
- Written by Alex Kiash Alex Kiash
- Published: 21 March 2025 21 March 2025
If you're using Shack Locations to display maps on your Joomla site, you might have noticed a search box missing. Visitors can see all your locations but can’t search for a specific one.
The good news is that adding a search feature is quick and easy once you know where to look. In this post, I’ll walk you through how I enabled the map search on my own test site and why it makes a big difference in user experience.
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How to Hide a Teacher's Email in OSCampus Pro
- Written by Alex Kiash Alex Kiash
- Published: 07 March 2025 07 March 2025
A customer recently asked how to remove the teacher's email link from the Teacher tab in an OSCampus Pro course. You can do this using Joomla's Template Override feature.
In this blog post, we’ll show you how to achieve this with a simple template modification.
The Simple Fix for OSEmbed Not Working in JCE Editor
- Written by Alex Kiash Alex Kiash
- Published: 20 February 2025 20 February 2025
One of our OSEmbed customers noticed that instead of embedding their URLs as videos or maps, Joomla was stubbornly turning them into clickable text links. If you're using the JCE Editor, this happens because it automatically converts pasted links into clickable text.
While this is great for regular web content, it completely disrupts OSEmbed’s ability to display videos, maps, or documents properly. In this blog post, you will learn a simple fix—just tweak a setting in JCE, and your embeds will work as expected!
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Simplify JCal Pro by Hiding the List of Categories in Monthly Calendar
- Written by Alex Kiash Alex Kiash
- Published: 09 January 2025 09 January 2025
The JCal Pro monthly calendar prominently displays a list of your events' categories by default.
While this is useful in many scenarios, there might be a use case where you'd prefer a cleaner look without the list of your events' categories. If this applies to you, don’t worry—removing the list of categories is possible and straightforward.
In this blog post, you will learn a step-by-step guide for hiding the events' categories list on your JCal Pro monthly calendar.
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How to Hide the Download Button for the Public User Group in OSDownloads
- Written by Alex Kiash Alex Kiash
- Published: 28 November 2024 28 November 2024
If you want to control who sees the "Download" button for OSDownload files, Joomla offers a simple solution.
By using RegularLabs.com's "Conditional Content" extension and customizing a template override, you can restrict access to logged-in users only.
This post will show you how to set it up effectively.
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How to Open a Shack Forms Pro Form with a Button
- Written by Alex Kiash Alex Kiash
- 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 Kiash Alex Kiash
- 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 Kiash Alex Kiash
- 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.