The Joomlashack Blog
JCal Pro Event Registrations Are Now Protected by Google Captchas
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 January 2020 07 January 2020
JCal Pro is the best calendaring Joomla extension. The new JCal Pro version released this week now allows you to protect the event registration pages against spam with Google's Captchas.
Setting this is a three-step process:
- Register your Joomla site to use Google's Captcha.
- Enable Joomla's captcha plugin.
- Enable Google's Captcha in JCal Pro.
In this blog post, I will give you a brief introduction to this new feature.
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Joomlashack's 2019 Review and Thank You
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 January 2020 02 January 2020
Thank you for your support of Joomlashack.
Joomlashack started in 2005, but our team took over the site in 2016.
We've been running Joomlashack for over three years now, and at the end of every year we write a review. If you want to look back, here is our 2016 review, 2017 review and 2018 review.
Hopefully these are not lame "everything is awesome" posts. We try and give you honesty and insight into Joomlashack's year. Every year there are plenty of ups and downs.
How to Customize the JCal Pro Display
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 November 2019 29 November 2019
Almost every organization's web site can benefit from an events calendar. For Joomla web sites, the obvious and most popular choice is JCal Pro. JCal Pro offers simplicity, flexibility, a robust feature set, and gorgeous templates to fit almost any color scheme.
How do you make the calendar events on your Joomla site look like you want them to? JCal Pro has quite a few design settings. You will take a look at them in this video tutorial from our YouTube channel.
How Shack Forms Integrates with Zoo
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 November 2019 26 November 2019
We blogged this week on how Shack Forms can help your Joomla 3-rd party extensions. In this post, you learned how to use Shack Forms as a communication tool for your Community Builder community. In this blog post, you also learned how to use Shack Forms to send messages to owners of entries of a SobiPro directory.
Shack Forms also integrates with Zoo, a popular Joomla extension for building catalogs. With this integration, your site visitors will be able to contact an author of an item of a catalog created via Zoo. In this blog post, I will show you how Shack Forms integrates with Zoo.
How Shack Forms Integrates with SobiPro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 November 2019 25 November 2019
In the previous blog post, you learned that Shack Forms Pro can be a very handy tool for some 3-rd party Joomla extensions. You learned that your Joomla users or Community Builder users can send messages to your Community Builder users via a Shack Form.
But Shack Forms also integrates with SobiPro, another popular Joomla extension. This integration will allow your site visitors to contact owners of the entries of your SobiPro directory. In this blog post, I will show you how Shack Forms integrates with SobiPro.
How Shack Forms Integrates with Community Builder
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 November 2019 22 November 2019
Shack Forms Pro is not just a Joomla extension for building forms. Although it does indeed allow you to quickly and easily build nicely looking forms, it can also complement your 3-rd party Joomla extensions. It integrates with Community Builder, JomSocial, SobiPro and Zoo.
In the case of Community Builder, Shack Forms Pro becomes a communication tool between your Community Builder users and your Joomla users. In this blog post, I will show you how Shack Forms integrates with Community Builder.
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How to Set up a Quiz in OSCampus Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 November 2019 19 November 2019
If you need to set an online training on your Joomla site, OSCampus Pro is the best tool to do this job. It allows you to set online courses, lessons, and quizzes.
This week we had a customer asking about what a quiz is and how it works. In this blog post, I will explain exactly that.
How Debugging a Sitemap Works in OSMap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 November 2019 18 November 2019
Sitemaps help search engines find and index your Joomla site content. OSMap is one of the most popular Joomla sitemap extensions.
If you are having an issue with your sitemap, the "Debug" feature will help uncover problems. In this blog post, I will show you how this feature works.
How to Create a Conference With Events in JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 November 2019 14 November 2019
Do you need to create a multi-day conference event for your Joomla site? With the JCal Pro Joomla extension, you can set it in a few clicks.
Our three-day online "Joomlashack Conference 2019" that we held the last week, could be a perfect fit to demonstrate such use case.
- We held this online Joomla conference in 2019 in three days: November 6, November 7, and November 8.
- On November 6, the event started at 12 PM (US Eastern time) and finished at 6 PM.
- On November 7, the event started at 8 AM and finished at 7 PM.
- On November 8, the event once again started at 8 AM and finished at 7 PM.
In this blog post, I will show you how to set a similar multi-day event in JCal Pro.
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Multi-Column HTML Sitemaps with OSMap Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 November 2019 13 November 2019
If you would like to help search engines to find and index your Joomla site content, you need OSMap Pro. This is your best sitemap Joomla extension.
But by default, OSMap Pro creates an HTML sitemap page with one column layout. What if your HTML sitemap has become extremely long and you would like to keep it more compact?
In this blog post, I will show you how you can split your OSMap Pro HTML sitemap page to several columns.