The Joomlashack Blog
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
Say Hello to Shack Article Manager, our 28th Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 May 2019 15 May 2019
Over the last few years, we've been adopting extensions here at Joomlashack.
These extensions include Tabs and Sliders, JCal Pro, jInbound, Shack Forms, Shack Toolbox and Shack Open Graph amongst others. These are powerful and mature extensions that users love.
Joomlashack users have given us many suggestions for other extensions to adopt. One idea has been suggested far more than any other: User Article Manager. This extension was really popular in early Joomla versions. It allowed you to accept articles from the frontend of your site. It also allowed writers to manage their articles without logging into the Joomla admin.
Read more: Say Hello to Shack Article Manager, our 28th Extension
Want to Test Our New Extension: Shack Article Manager?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 April 2019 25 April 2019
Over the last few years, we've been adopting extensions here at Joomlashack.
These extensions include Tabs and Sliders, JCal Pro, jInbound, Shack Forms, Shack Toolbox and Shack Open Graph amongst others. These are powerful and mature extensions that users love.
Joomlashack users have given us many suggestions for other extensions to adopt. One idea has been suggested far more than any other: User Article Manager. You can see some of the suggestions in the comments on this post about User Article Manager. Thanks in particular to Joe Sonne for repeatedly encouraging us.
User Article Manager was really popular in early Joomla versions. It allowed you to accept articles from the frontend of your site. It also allowed writers to manage their articles without logging into the Joomla admin.
Read more: Want to Test Our New Extension: Shack Article Manager?
Say Hello to the new OSCampus Pathways Module
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
OSCampus now includes a module called OSCampus Pathways. The module produces a stylish frontend preview of your online training pathways and their courses.
Once you update ti OSCampus 1.4.3, you will get the OSCampus Pathways module automatically installed.
In this blog post, I will give you a brief tour of this new module. You will learn how it looks at your Joomla site public frontend. You will also take a look at what backend settings allow you to customize the frontend display.
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.
Read more: The Share It plugin is now called Shack Article Sharing
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.
Read more: How to Provide Google Drive Downloads in OSDownloads
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.