The Joomlashack Blog
The Joomlashack Conference is Online: November 6th, 7th and 8th
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 October 2019 11 October 2019
Five years ago, our team held an online Joomla Day with over 20 speakers from around the world. Over 1,000 people attended! You can see videos from that event on YouTube.
I'm delighted to say we're planning to host another online Joomla Day on November 6th, 7th and 8th.
Many of you don't live close to an in-person Joomla event, so this online version can reach many more people. Just like any normal Joomla event, we'll have presentations of 30 to 40 minutes, followed by questions.
Read more: The Joomlashack Conference is Online: November 6th, 7th and 8th
How to Create a Field with Countries in Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 October 2019 11 October 2019
You can very quickly and easily build Joomla forms with our Shack Forms Joomla extension. Your form can be fairly simple, collecting just a name and an email.
With Shack Forms, you can also quickly build a more advanced form. One of our customers asked how to allow a form submitter to select their country.
In this blog tutorial, I'll show you how to create a field with countries in Shack Forms.
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Joomlashack Changelogs Are Now Easier to Find
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 October 2019 01 October 2019
Last week, we got the news that Joomlashack is one of the most popular extension developers in Joomla.
With a large number of users, your feature requests come in thick-and-fast.
Some of the feature requests are major, such as "Can you build an eCommerce extension?" Spoiler: we're working on it.
How to Display YouTube Video as a URL with OSYouTube Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 September 2019 18 September 2019
One of our customers asked how to display a YouTube video only as a URL link.
This is possible with OSYouTube Pro. The parameter that makes this possible is "Ignore HTML links".
In this blog post, I'll show you how to embed a YouTube video just as a URL
Read more: How to Display YouTube Video as a URL with OSYouTube Pro
Introduction to the Shack Slides Component
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 September 2019 13 September 2019
The Shack Slides component allows you to organize collections of slides for your Joomla slideshow.
Use it to create and populate a collection of slides with images. Then set your Shack Slides module to display those slides collections as your Joomla slideshow.
By the end of this tutorial, you will learn:
- How to create collections of slides for your Joomla slideshow and manage them.
- How to add images to your collections of slides and manage them.
- How to upload multiple images to your collections of slides.
- How to display slides collections as a Joomla slideshow module.
Introduction to Slideshow Effects in Shack Slides
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 12 September 2019 12 September 2019
Shack Slides gives you the freedom to create beautiful Joomla slideshows with your images. You can easily customize the way your slideshow appears.
You have a choice of twenty-four dynamic effects to display slides. In this blog post, you will see all of them at work, one by one.
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How to Track Shack Forms Submissions with Google Analytics
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 September 2019 11 September 2019
One of our customers asked how to track their Shack Forms submissions with Google Analytics.
Setting such tracking is a six-step process.
- Connect your Joomla site to Google Analytics.
- Create a "Thank You" Joomla article for your form.
- Create a hidden menu item for the "Thank You" article.
- Set your form to redirect to the "Thank You" article page upon submissions.
- Create a goal in Google Analytics to track the URL of the "Thank You" page.
- Test the goal conversion in your Google Analytics.
In this blog post, I'll walk you through this process step-by-step in more detail.
Read more: How to Track Shack Forms Submissions with Google Analytics
Update from Perfect AJAX Popup Contact Form to Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 September 2019 06 September 2019
Is your Joomla website still running the "Perfect AJAX Popup Contact Form" module? We acquired this module from its previous owners at perfect-web.co. Its new name is "Shack Forms".
"Shack Forms" is now a component and a module. In this tutorial, you will learn how to update from "Perfect AJAX Popup Contact Form" to "Shack Forms".
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How to Translate OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 September 2019 03 September 2019
You can translate OSCampus from its default English language to your preferred one. This is a five-step process:
- Install your language pack for Joomla.
- Create your language folders for OSCampus.
- Copy the en-GB language source files for OSCampus.
- Rename the en-GB language source files for OSCampus.
- Translate the OSCampus language files.
In the blog post, you will take a look at this process.
New Custom Module Positions for Shack Locations Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 August 2019 29 August 2019
We do our best to continually improve our Joomla extensions and increase their value for our customers.
We recently enhanced our Shack Locations Pro. It now offers you four custom positions for placing any module on your Joomla map directory location page. Let me show you this new feature.
Read more: New Custom Module Positions for Shack Locations Pro