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The Share It plugin is now called Shack Article Sharing
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 April 2019 03 April 2019
Back in January, we looked ahead to 2019 and set three main goals for the year:
- Provide customers with a smooth transition to Joomla 4.
- Integrate our extensions. For example, we can expand OSMap to provide support for all our new extensions.
- Improve the Joomlashack brand by redesigning the logo and rebranding our extensions.
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Introducing the New Joomlashack Logo
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 March 2019 26 March 2019
I owe a big "Thank You" to the Joomlashack community.
Just over two months ago, I wrote a post called "We Are Working on a New Joomlashack Logo".
I described all the problems we found while trying to design a new logo. In the end, I presented a new version of the logo and said:
How to Provide Google Drive Downloads in OSDownloads
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 March 2019 15 March 2019
A few of our customers asked how to set OSDownloads in their Joomla site for a repository of downloadable Google text documents.
Instead of allowing people to simply visit the Google Drive documents, these users wanted to provide them with a direct download link. Users will click the link in OSDownloads and the Google Drive file will download to their desktop.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure OSDownloads to offer to your Joomla site visitors a downloadable Google text document.
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Our Response to an OSMap SQL Injection Report
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 March 2019 06 March 2019
Here at Joomlashack, we were alerted to a possible security issue with OSMap.
To the best of our knowledge, this report is false. We did post our own detailed response on the reporting site called "Packet Storm". However, not only did Packet Storm remove the security report, but other sites picked up the report with our response.
How to Create a Registration Form for JCal Pro Events
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 March 2019 06 March 2019
This week one of our JCal Pro customers asked how to create a custom registration form for their JCal Pro events. They asked this because the default registration form only asks for your name and email address.
You can enhance this default form using JCal Pro's custom form builder. In this blog post, I'll show you how to use it to create a custom registration form for your JCal Pro events.
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How to Create a Thank You Page for a jInbound Landing Page
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 March 2019 05 March 2019
One of our customers asked how to create a "Thank You" page for a jInbound landing page. With jInbound you can create a "Thank You" page using Joomla articles.
This is a three-step process:
- Create a "Thank You" Joomla article.
- Create a hidden menu item for the "Thank You" article.
- Set your landing page to use the "Thank You" article.
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How to Add a Google Drive File to OSDownloads
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 February 2019 25 February 2019
A few of our customers asked how to set OSDownloads for a remote files repository with Google Drive.
With the Google Drive free file storage, you get fairly generous disk space. Letting your Joomla site visitors download files hosted with your Google Drive account will also save you bandwidth.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure OSDownloads Free to offer to your Joomla site visitors a downloadable file hosted with Google Drive.
How to Automate a Lead Nurturing Email Campaign in jInbound
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 February 2019 18 February 2019
One of our customers asked how to automate a lead nurturing email campaign in jInbound.
Lead nurturing is in the heart of any inbound marketing campaign and in Joomlashack jInbound you can automate this process.
In this blog post, I will show you how to create such automated emails and how to schedule them. You will also learn how to set up an external cron job that will trigger the emails sending.
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Say Hello to Shack Analytics, the Newest Extension at Joomlashack
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 February 2019 11 February 2019
We're delighted to release Shack Analytics for Joomlashack users.
Shack Analytics is a single extension to manage all the analytics code on your sites.
Joomla site owners often have scripts such as Google Analytics, Adwords, Clicky, Facebook, MailChimp, and other sites. But those scripts are always hidden away inside random modules, plugins or template files.
Shack Analytics allows you to see all your analytics on a single screen. This is the same philosophy that inspired OSMeta. We want to make life easier for you by gathering everything in one easy-to-find location.
Shack Analytics makes it easy to assign analytics to your whole site, but you can also choose specific pages or menu links. This means that Shack Analytics is excellent for targeting specific landing pages or "Thank You" screens.
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Someone Has Been Spamming OSMap Reviews For Years
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 February 2019 08 February 2019
Here at Joomlashack, we publish a lot of extensions! There are 25 Joomlashack extensions on the Joomla Extensions Directory (JED).
The JED is a wonderful platform, and has been an enormous help for developers like us.
24 of our extensions run smoothly on the JED, getting some good reviews and the occasional negative feedback.
However, there's one exception: OSMap.
Read more: Someone Has Been Spamming OSMap Reviews For Years