The Joomlashack Blog
OSCampus Has a New Drag-and-Drop Certificate Designer
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 April 2021 22 April 2021
OSCampus is the best way to build an online training site with Joomla.
This extension is incredibly robust and is used by 10,000's of people every week. OSCampus runs the video training at OSTraining.com, and also the official Joomla.org training site!
OSCampus has a new and powerful drag-and-drop designer for certificates. This is a great way to reward your users when they finish a class. You can create as many certificates as you need, and then assign them to different classes.
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Use Links to Automatically Fill a Shack Forms Field
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 April 2021 19 April 2021
Imagine that you create a link that says "Click here to book a trip to London". When your visitor clicks the link, they go to your booking form and "London" is already selected in the form.
This sounds pretty awesome, right? It makes things really easy for your visitors and increases the chance that they will buy from you.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to modify links so you can automatically make form selections for your visitors. We'll be using the Shack Forms extension.
Read more: Use Links to Automatically Fill a Shack Forms Field
Shack Open Graph Has Improved Facebook and Twitter Support
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 April 2021 14 April 2021
When you share Joomla links on Facebook and Twitter, those sites don't find the correct information ... unless you use Shack Open Graph.
This extension adds Open Graph and Twitter Card tags to your site. These tags help Facebook and Twitter pull the correct image and description from your site. Each social network requires different images sizes. For example, the header images on our blog posts are 2000 px wide and 900 px high. But our Facebook images are 1200 px wide and 630 px high and our Twitter images are normally 1200 px high and 675 px high.
In this week's release of Shack Open Graph, it's even easier to make your site look good on social media.
Read more: Shack Open Graph Has Improved Facebook and Twitter Support
How to Send Shack Forms Data to Specific Users
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 March 2021 24 March 2021
Shack Forms Pro is one of the top Joomla extensions. One of its users asked how to send user-submitted data to certain recipients.
By default, it will be sent to the site administrator you set in Joomla's Global Configuration.
But what if instead of the site administrator you would like to send the data to other recipients? We will show you how to do that in this tutorial.
Introduction to Custom Fields in Shack Locations
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 24 March 2021 24 March 2021
Shack Locations is the best way to create a location-based directory in Joomla. You can create advanced directories with custom maps, markers, infoboxes and hundreds of locations.
In this guide, we'll show you how to add details to your locations using custom fields.
By default, a location page will display the following information:
- The Google map of the location
- The "Get Directions" search box of the location.
However, with custom fields, you can add a lot of extra, helpful information. For example, you can add these details using fields:
Simple Renew Has Improved Checkout Options
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 March 2021 10 March 2021
Simple Renew is the simplest and most reliable way to build a Joomla membership site.
Over the last few years, we've managed to grow Joomlashack. Yes, we have some good extensions and templates, but one thing has made that growth possible: recurring subscriptions.
Simple Renew is the extension we have used to power Joomlashack.com for over 5 years.
How to Use Google Analytics 4 in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 02 March 2021 02 March 2021
Shack Analytics is a single extension to manage all the analytics code on your Joomla sites.
Shack Analytics now has support for Google Analytics 4, which is rolling out to Google customers. This is a major new version of the world's most popular analytics platform.
In this blog post, we'll give you some details on Google Analytics 4 and why you should upgrade. We'll then show you how to use the Shack Analytics extension to add Google Analytics 4 to your site. Finally, we have some alternative suggestions if you want to get out of the Google ecosystem.
How to Add Invisible reCAPTCHA Spam Protection to Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 26 February 2021 26 February 2021
A few years ago, Google reinvented its reCaptcha spam prevention system. Previous versions of Captcha tried to prevent spam by presenting users with distorted letters and numbers. This system was confusing to users, and also failed to stop spammers.
The new Google system is known as "Invisible reCAPTCHA" This new system is much more user-friendly and also prevents spam.
In this blog post, I am going to show you how to add the "Invisible reCaptcha" spam protection to Shack Forms.
Read more: How to Add Invisible reCAPTCHA Spam Protection to Shack Forms
How to Use Woopra Analytics with Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 February 2021 23 February 2021
We recently had a few questions asking how to connect a Joomla site with Woopra using Shack Analytics.
Woopra is a SAAS platform that allows you to easily track, analyze and optimize how visitors and customers engage with your Joomla site.
In this blog post, you will learn how to connect the Woopra platform with your Joomla site using Shack Analytics. Once you did, you are well on your way to becoming a data wizard, even if you are not a technical person.
How to Use Mautic Analytics on a Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 February 2021 18 February 2021
One of our customers asked whether it is possible to connect a Joomla site to Mautic. Mautic is a server-side PHP/MySQL self-hosted marketing platform.
You can quickly install it using your hosting control panel. After the installation, you will be able to log into your Mautic administrator dashboard and copy the tracking code.
Then paste this code in the Shack Analytics extension on your Joomla site, and that's it!
Let's take a look at how to do this in more detail.