The Joomlashack Blog
Joomlashack Has Acquired jInbound for Joomla Marketing Automation
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 January 2018 31 January 2018
Joomlashack creates extensions and templates to make your Joomla sites better.
Over the last 11 years, the Joomlashack team have built popular and powerful extensions including OSMap, OSEmbed, OSMeta and OSCampus.
Joomlashack has also successfully acquired JCal Pro and Tabs and Sliders from other developers.
Today we’re delighted to announce another acquisition that allows Joomlashack to move closer to being a one-stop destination for all your Joomla needs.
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Introducing New Reports in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 January 2018 31 January 2018
OSCampus is the best and easiest choice for a Learning Management System in Joomla. It's the software we use to support 10,000's of users at OSTraining.com.
The latest version of OSCampus adds great new reporting features.
In this post, we'll show you how the OSCampus statistics and reporting features work.
Sarah Watz from Pixpro Labs Interviewing Steve Burge
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 January 2018 23 January 2018
This week, Joomlashack.com and OSTraining.com owner Steve Burge took part in an online live show with Sarah Watz from Pixpro Labs. Sarah runs her weekly Live Show to help Joomla business owners learn from others and make their businesses more successful.
In his candid interview with Sarah, Steve lays bare how he moved his career from a teacher to a web designer and eventually to online training provider. You will also hear about one business decision that helped him turn Joomlashack from being on the verge of bankruptcy to a steadily growing Joomla extensions business.
Read more: Sarah Watz from Pixpro Labs Interviewing Steve Burge
New Feature: OSDownloads Pro Now Has Custom Fields For User Information
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 January 2018 17 January 2018
Over the last couple of months we've been working really hard on improvements to OSDownloads.
OSDownloads is the easiest way to add downloads to Joomla.
What are the new features in OSDownloads?
We've added email notifications for downloads, improved the URL structure, and enabled custom fields for download files. Starting today, you can also use custom fields for user submissions, so you can collect more information from visitors who download files.
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Free Tickets to Meet Joomlashack at JoomlaDay Florida 2018
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 January 2018 15 January 2018
Are you feeling cold this week? The absolute best remedy is a trip to Florida.
Why not plan to meet us in Florida for JoomlaDay Florida in March?
The annual JoomlaDay Florida will be in Tampa, on Friday, March 2nd, Saturday, March 3rd and Sunday, March 4th.
Read more: Free Tickets to Meet Joomlashack at JoomlaDay Florida 2018
Joomlashack's 2017 Review and 2018 Preview
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 January 2018 05 January 2018
Happy New Year, everyone.
Our team took over Joomlashack 18 months ago.
Ever since the takeover, people have been asking me questions like these:
- "Is it worth building a Joomla business?"
- "Do people still use Joomla?"
- "Is anyone creating cool things for Joomla users?"
My answers are always an emphatic "Yes".
In this review, I'll explain why we're really confident for Joomla and Joomlashack in 2018.
Let's first see what happened in 2017, and then we'll see the plans for 2018.
Important: OSDownloads Has New URLs
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 January 2018 03 January 2018
OSDownloads is the easiest way to add downloads to Joomla. It makes it easy for you to collect an email address in exchange for downloads.
Over the last couple of months we've been working really hard on improvements to OSDownloads. These changes bring a lot of changes requested by OSDownloads users.
You'll see these changes in OSDownloads Free 1.8 and OSDownloads Pro 1.11.
In this blog post I'm going to give you an overview of the changes you'll see, including new URLs.
Introducing Frontend Statistics in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 December 2017 20 December 2017
We believe that OSCampus is the best Learning Management System available for Joomla today.
We are happy to announce the release of OSCampus Pro 1.1.8 which adds another great new feature.
This release adds a new statistics layer to OSCampus.
You will now be able to see all kinds of data on Classes, Lessons, Students. All of these statistics are visible from the frontend of your site.
How to Add Title and Descriptions to Slides in Shack Slides
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 December 2017 08 December 2017
Shack Slides is the best way to create a slideshow in Joomla.
One of Shack Slides many features is the ability to overlay titles and descriptions onto your slide images.
Shack Slides can pull content from many different sources. In this blog post, I'm going to show you how to overlay titles and descriptions whethere you're using Joomla articles, K2 items, or a custom collection in Shack Slides.
Read more: How to Add Title and Descriptions to Slides in Shack Slides
OSDownloads Pro Now Supports Custom Fields for Downloads
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 December 2017 07 December 2017
We just released OSDownloads Pro version 1.10.0.
This release introduces a new feature: custom file fields.
In this blog post, you will take a look at how custom file fields work.
Read more: OSDownloads Pro Now Supports Custom Fields for Downloads