The Joomlashack Blog
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.
Read more: How to Create a Conference With Events in JCal Pro
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.
How to Set Access to JCal Pro Administration Interface
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 November 2019 08 November 2019
JCal Pro is an extremely flexible Joomla calendaring extension. You can allow some of its administration tasks to a frontend user. For example, you can set a user to create JCal Pro events. You can also set a user to moderate created events.
But in JCal Pro you can also allow one of your Joomla users full access to JCal Pro administration interface. This user will be able to log into your Joomla administrator panel and get access to JCal Pro, and to JCal Pro only.
Let me show you how to approach such a setting.
Read more: How to Set Access to JCal Pro Administration Interface
Introduction to Frontend Event Registrations in JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 November 2019 07 November 2019
In JCal Pro you can register event participants in two ways:
- Via Joomla administrator panel. Your site administrators would create the registrations via the "JCal Pro: Registrations" administrative page.
- Via the frontend. JCal Pro event participants will register themselves from the event's frontend page.
In this blog post, I'll show you how the second use case works.
Read more: Introduction to Frontend Event Registrations in JCal Pro
Displaying a JCal Pro Event Address without Its Google Map
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 November 2019 04 November 2019
JCal Pro is an extremely flexible Joomla calendaring extension. One of our customers asked how to display an event address without displaying its Google Map.
Normally, to display an address of your JCal Pro event you would use the JCal Pro built-in "Locations" feature. You would create a location and then add it to your event or events.
But displaying a JCal Pro event location means displaying the location's Google Map. What if you wish to display the address of the event as text, without its Google Map?
In this blog post, I will show you how to achieve this.
Read more: Displaying a JCal Pro Event Address without Its Google Map
How to Autopublish JCal Pro Events via Frontend
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 October 2019 31 October 2019
JCal Pro allows you to create and automatically publish events by a designated person via your Joomla site frontend.
Here is the workflow of this task:
- Your designated JCal Pro events autopublisher logs into your Joomla site frontend.
- They click a link, for example, "Add New Event".
- They see a page for JCal Pro event creation and create a JCal Pro event.
- Their event gets published with the "Unapproved" status at your JCal Pro backend control panel. It also gets published at the frontend for a logged-in JCal Pro moderator, if you created one.
- At the same time, JCal Pro notifies about this event your site super administrator and your JCal Pro moderator, if you created one.
- Either your site super administrator at the backend or your JCal Pro events moderator at the frontend approves the event.
- The event gets displayed to the public in your JCal Pro calendar.
In this blog post, I will show you how to set up this workflow.
How to Translate Frontend Labels of a Shack Form
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 October 2019 25 October 2019
Shack Forms Pro allows you to display the labels of the fields of your forms at the frontend of your Joomla site in languages other than English.
This is a two-step process.
- Install and enable a Joomla language pack for your preferred language.
- Create labels for the fields of the required Shack Forms module in your required language.
Let's take a look at this process in more detail.
How to View and Search Shack Forms Submissions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 October 2019 24 October 2019
Shack Forms is the best Joomla form extension. You can use it to set a required form in seconds and immediately start collecting data from your Joomla site visitors.
But Shack Forms allows you to quickly and efficiently view and search the submitted data. You can perform those tasks via your Shack Forms Pro component.
Let's take a look at how you can view and search Shack Forms submissions.
How to Hide the "Free" Class Label in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 October 2019 21 October 2019
One of our customers asked how to hide the "Free" class label seen next to a class name under the "Table of Contents" tab. You can achieve this with a simple CSS tweak.
In this blog post, I will show you how to apply this CSS tweak and keep it intact after your next OSCampus upgrade.