The Joomlashack Blog
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.
5 Courses to Get You Started with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 November 2018 16 November 2018
There is a common question we get from Joomla beginners who just joined Joomlashack.
They want to know how to start with Joomla and what kind of video classes they should take.
Here's an overview of 5 video classes to get you started with building, maintaining, securing and speeding up your Joomla site. All of these courses are available to Joomlashack Everything Club members as part of Joomlashack University.
Announcing the New Joomlashack University
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 November 2018 15 November 2018
Our aim at Joomlashack is to help you improve your skills and grow your business.
Yes, it's helpful if you know Joomla administration, design and development. But it's also helpful to have complementary skills that give you access to the web world around Joomla.
So today we're relaunching Joomlashack University to include classes on all the topics you need to suceed. The new Joomlashack University has over 1,400 videos on everything from Joomla SEO and Security to extension development to Bootstrap 4.
The lessons include design as Bootstrap, LESS and SASS. The lessons also focus on development abilities such as PHP, Javascript and Git.
Get Your Copy of the CSS Grid Explained Book
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 October 2018 23 October 2018
CSS Grid is revolutionizing the frontend web-design industry.
For the last 20 years, web designers 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.
Shack Forms Now Has Extra Privacy Options
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 October 2018 04 October 2018
Shack Forms is one of the two or three most popular Joomla forms extensions. But we're always trying to make Shack Forms better.
Several customers asked us to allow more control over the user data collected by Shack Forms so they can comply with Europe's new GDPR laws (click here to read about Joomla and the GDPR).
Starting from Shack Forms 4.0.10, you will now see extra privacy features.
Shack Spreadsheets Is Now Live at Joomlashack
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 September 2018 26 September 2018
We are happy to announce that Shack Spreadsheets is now available for Joomlashack members.
Shack Spreadsheets enables you to upload spreadsheets to your Joomla articles. This extension will automatically display your spreadsheet data in a clean HTML table.
This really is the quickest and easiest way to take information from a spreadsheet and add it to your Joomla site!
Shack Spreadsheets, previously named PixParse Sheets, is the third of several extensions we'll be launching as part of our acquisition deal with PixPro Labs.
This is the 26th extension available to our Joomlashack members!