The Joomlashack Blog
We Are Working on a New Joomlashack Logo
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 January 2019 21 January 2019
It's hard to redesign your logo.
Last week, Slack announced a major redesign of their logo. It didn't take 5 minutes before people started saying, "I've seen that design before!"
Here is the Joomla logo and the new Slack logo, side-by-side:
How to Check for US Social Security Numbers in Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 January 2019 21 January 2019
One of our customers asked how to validate a US Social Security Number input in Shack Forms.
To validate input of your Shack Forms fields, you must use what is called "regular expressions" or RegEx.
In this post, you will learn how to use one of such regular expressions even if you don't know anything about them.
Read more: How to Check for US Social Security Numbers in Shack Forms
The Joomlashack Roundup: 2019 Starts With Shack Analytics
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 January 2019 14 January 2019
Thanks for using Joomla and Joomlashack. I hope 2019 is a great year for you. Let's work together to make cool things happen with Joomla.
In case you missed it last week, we reviewed 2018 at Joomlashack .
Now it's time to move forward, and we're getting ready to launch of a new extension: Shack Analytics. Here's a preview screenshot:
Read more: The Joomlashack Roundup: 2019 Starts With Shack Analytics
OSCampus Pro Has a New Theme Called Setoff
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 January 2019 10 January 2019
We are happy to announce that OSCampus now has a new theme called "Setoff".
In this blog post, you will take a brief look at how to set it and at subtle changes it introduces to the OSCampus pathway and class pages.
10 Free Tickets to Meet Joomlashack at JoomlaDay Florida 2019
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 09 January 2019 09 January 2019
Are you sick of the long, cold winter? The absolute best remedy is a trip to sunny Tampa for JoomlaDay Florida 2019.
The event is being held in the fascinating Ybor City district of Tampa on February 22 to 24.
As one of the co-sponsors of this event, we are giving away 10 free registration tickets.
Why not grab a free ticket and meet us in Tampa for JoomlaDay Florida?
Read more: 10 Free Tickets to Meet Joomlashack at JoomlaDay Florida 2019
Joomlashack's 2018 Review and Thank You
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 January 2019 03 January 2019
Thank you for your support of Joomlashack.
Joomlashack started in 2005, but our team took over the site in 2016. It's been a busy couple of years as we re-launched Joomlashack.
The re-launch has been possible thanks to many of you. We really appreciate your support.
Here's our recap of the good and bad in 2018 (If you're interested, here's 2016 and 2017). Hopefully this isn't a lame "everything is awesome" post. I'll try and give you honesty and insight into Joomlashack's year. Oh, and read down to the comments for a chance at a special prize!
Shack Spreadsheets Has Improved Data Display in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 12 December 2018 12 December 2018
Shack Spreadsheets is the easiest and quickest way to get data from your spreadsheet and show it in Joomla.
The latest version of Shack Spreadsheets has improved importing features for your data:
- Shack Spreadsheets will import the hyperlinks you have in your spreadsheet.
- Shack Spreadsheets will allow you to set a custom CSS style for all of your data tables.
In this blog post, I will give you a brief look at these new features.
Read more: Shack Spreadsheets Has Improved Data Display in Joomla
Shack Slides Allows You to Hide Important Elements on Mobile Devices
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 December 2018 07 December 2018
Shack Slides now has new features for mobile users. It now allows you to hide from your site mobile viewer the following:
- Your slides titles
- Your slides descriptions
- Your slideshow navigation bar
- Your slideshow Previous and Next navigation buttons.
It will help you improve user experience of your site visitors when they view your slideshows on their mobile devices.
You can now make your slideshows more compact for them. In this blog post, I will give you a brief tour of these new features.
Read more: Shack Slides Allows You to Hide Important Elements on Mobile Devices
OSCampus Now Supports Vimeo, Plus Has Improved Lesson Statistics
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 November 2018 21 November 2018
OSCampus is the best and easiest pick if you need a Learning Management System extension for your Joomla site. It's the extension we use to support 10,000's of users here at Joomlashack.com.
The latest version of OSCampus adds support for Vimeo lessons and lessons count. In this blog post, you'll take a look at these two new features.
Read more: OSCampus Now Supports Vimeo, Plus Has Improved Lesson Statistics
7 Cool Features in Shack Locations Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 November 2018 19 November 2018
Our Shack Locations Pro component offers some useful features. Some of them, such as markers clustering and bounding, work automatically, on the background. You woudn't know they exist.
Some others, such as displaying a map module, and including locations in Joomla core search, you will need to enable and configure. In this blog post, I will give you a tour of the seven features, exclusive to Shack Locations Pro.