The Joomlashack Blog
How to Use Email Variables in Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 July 2019 17 July 2019
Shack Forms is incredibly flexible and customizable Joomla form extension. It allows you to easily customize or personalize emails sent to form submitters or administrators.
You achieve this by using email variables. In this blog post, you will learn 3 things to know about using email variables in Shack Forms.
Email Integrations with Shack Forms: MailChimp, FreshMail, AcyMailing
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 12 July 2019 12 July 2019
Are you thinking about creating an email list for your Joomla site visitors but don't know how to? There are 3 ways of creating email lists with Shack Forms, in no particular order:
- Create a sign-up form for your Mailchimp email lists.
- Create a sign-up form for your FreshMail email lists.
- Create a sign-up form for your AcyMailing email lists.
In this blog post, I will give you a guided tour of each of these three options.
Read more: Email Integrations with Shack Forms: MailChimp, FreshMail, AcyMailing
6 Positions for Your Shack Form Toggler
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 July 2019 10 July 2019
A form toggler is what your site visitors will see before they see your Shack Form itself. Your form toggler is what creates the first impression of the form. It also influences the overall impression of your site.
By default, your Shack Form toggler gets fixed to the left of the page. But you have 5 more positions for it. In this blog post, I will walk you through them one by one.
5 Tweaks to Beautify Your Joomla Form Style with Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 09 July 2019 09 July 2019
Your Joomla contact form doesn't have to be boring. Our Shack Forms Joomla extension provides plenty of options to make your contact form funky and fun.
The best part is, you will be able to achieve this even without any CSS skills. In this blog post, you will learn 5 tweaks to beautify your Joomla contact form style with Shack Forms Pro.
Read more: 5 Tweaks to Beautify Your Joomla Form Style with Shack Forms
Shack Locations Pro Can Hide Google's Points of Interest
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 July 2019 03 July 2019
Shack Locations Pro is the best Joomla extension to create an advanced map directory with multiple locations. You can pinpoint every location with its own customizable marker and many extra details.
However, by default, Google also includes it's own markers to maps. Each map shows Google's own "Points of Interest".
The new version of Shack Locations Pro now allows you to hide these "Points of Interest". In this blog post, I will give you a brief introduction to this new feature.
Read more: Shack Locations Pro Can Hide Google's Points of Interest
How to Hide Modules from Shack Article Manager Pages
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 July 2019 01 July 2019
Shack Article Manager is the best extension to write and manage Joomla articles from your site frontend.
One of our customers asked how to keep their Shack Article Manager pages as clean as possible. They wanted to hide any modules on Shack Article Manager screens. In this blog post, I'll show you how to achieve this with Advanced Module Manager from RegurlarLabs.com.
This is a four-step process:
- Download free Advanced Module Manager here and install it.
- Open the module you wish to hide from Shack Article Manager pages.
- Scroll to the "URL" section, click "Exclude" and type manage-articles and submit-article into the field. Click "Save & Close".
- Repeat the above steps for the rest of the modules you wish to hide from Shack Article Manager pages.
Let's take a look at this process in more detail.
Read more: How to Hide Modules from Shack Article Manager Pages
Read the CSS Grid Explained book and Get Ready for Joomla 4
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 June 2019 11 June 2019
CSS Grid is revolutionizing web design.
For the last 20 years, we have used CSS to lay out web pages. However, CSS has always been missing some key functionality. Designers had to rely on workarounds, such as tables, floats, and positioning.
CSS Grid is different and better.
Read more: Read the CSS Grid Explained book and Get Ready for Joomla 4
We're Going to Simplify jInbound
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 June 2019 07 June 2019
Over the last few years, we've been adopting extensions here at Joomlashack.
These extensions include Tabs and Sliders, JCal Pro, Shack Forms, Shack Toolbox and Shack Open Graph amongst others. These are powerful and mature extensions that users love.
Almost all the adoptions have been a success. However, we always aim to be honest with users and it's time to admit that one adoption hasn't gone well.
Last year, we acquired jInbound. It's a large marketing automation extension that was designed to be a Joomla version of Hubspot, Marketo, Infusionsoft, or Drip.
Guides to Get You Started With Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 June 2019 06 June 2019
Our "Shack Forms" Joomla extension will allow you to create contact forms, booking forms, support ticket forms, and many other types of forms.
This forms extension has 10,000's of users, with more than 300 reviews and a perfect 10/10 score on the JED.
To help Joomlashack members get started with Shack Forms, we've been writing a lot of Shack Forms documentation.
In this post, I'm going to give you an overview of the most useful new tutorials.
Joomlashack on YouTube, plus a new online Joomla Day
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 30 May 2019 30 May 2019
One of the most common requests we've had from Joomlashack members is more video tutorials.
Sure, there's a lot of documentation available for Joomlashack products, but many of your are visual learners. So we've launched the Joomlashack YouTube channel. Look out for interesting Joomla how-to videos every week.
Read more: Joomlashack on YouTube, plus a new online Joomla Day