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Joomla eCommerce Users: Are You Ready for SCA?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 20 September 2019 20 September 2019
Last year, website owners needed to deal with the new European privacy laws known as GDPR. We wrote a guide to Joomla and the GDPR.
This year, there are new European rules that involve eCommerce. There are two names for these new requirements:
- PSD2: Payment Services Directive.
- SCA: Strong Customer Authentication.
PSD2 is the overall set of laws and SCA is the specific group of regulations launching this month. So SCA is what we're going to talk about in this post.
How to Connect Joomla to Google Analytics
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 September 2019 11 September 2019
The best way to analyze traffic to your site is the popular Google Analytics.
In this post, you will learn how to connect Google Analytics to your Joomla site.
For your Joomla site, we recommend the Shack Analytics extension.
You will have an option to add Google Analytics to all pages of your Joomla site. Install Shack Analytics from your Joomlashack account, then follow this guide.
The Joomla 4 Admin Template is Ready!
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 05 September 2019 05 September 2019
Joomla 4 is making progress with Alpha releases every month or so.
The latest version of Joomla 4 is Alpha 11. You can read the release announcement here.
The major change in this version is that there's a new admin template! This has been a long process and we're delighted for the Joomla team that the template is ready. We first wrote about the new admin template in 2017 and then again in 2018. The Joomla team have been slowly improving and tweaking the template for at least two years.
Here's our video introducing the Joomla 4 admin template. This video is one of many on Joomlashack's YouTube channel.
What is the Best Joomla Page Builder?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 28 May 2019 28 May 2019
At a recent Joomla event, a Joomlashack member asked me a really interesting question:
Do you recommend using a page builder to use with Joomlashack templates?
By "page builder", we were talking about extensions that allow you to design Joomla pages using a drag-and-drop interface.
I admitted that I hadn't used the page builders enough to give him a good answer. So, over the last couple of weeks, I downloaded and tested several Joomla page builders.
Here's an introduction to some of the most popular page builder options.
How to Submit Joomla Sitemaps to Google Search Console
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
OSMap is the most popular way to create a sitemap for Joomla sites.
Google Search Console is the most popular way to make sure your site is listed in Google's search results.
Use OSMap and Google Search Console together, and you'll give your site an SEO advantage.
Read more: How to Submit Joomla Sitemaps to Google Search Console
How to Manually Install Joomla Using cPanel
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 03 April 2019 03 April 2019
One of our students was having trouble installing Joomla using cPanel, so we created this tutorial for them.
This tutorial will cover setting up the database, the files, and the configuration of the Joomla install.
Joomla: Updates Table Doesn't Exist
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 02 April 2019 02 April 2019
One of our students was having a problem updating his site. The issue was the "updates" table in the database had become corrupted.
We found a solution for him, but it required running a query in phpMyAdmin. He wasn't familiar with the process of running a database query before, so we created this tutorial for him and you.
In the step-by-step tutorial, we'll describe the issue and demonstrate how to resolve it.
How to Display Tags Only On Single Joomla Article Pages
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 February 2019 11 February 2019
Tags are extremely useful for organizing your Joomla content. But, by default, Joomla will display them sitewide.
Your Tags will get displayed on a featured articles page and on category blog pages.
One of our customers asked us how to display Tags only on single Joomla articles. So, in this tutorial, I'll show you how to hide tags on blog and category pages.
Read more: How to Display Tags Only On Single Joomla Article Pages
Save failed with the following error: Null primary key not allowed
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 06 February 2019 06 February 2019
The name of this blog post in an error message that some people say on their Joomla site. This error can occur when you click "Save" inside your site:
Save failed with the following error: Null primary key not allowed
This error will prevent you from saving the changes you've made. Fortunately, this error is usually fixable through one of these two solutions:
Read more: Save failed with the following error: Null primary key not allowed
10 Options for Joomla eCommerce Extensions
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 February 2019 01 February 2019
Joomlashack customers often ask us how to build an eCommerce store using Joomla. The best way to achieve this is by installing one of the Joomla shopping cart extensions listed in JED.
In this blog post, you will look at 10 options to build your online store with Joomla. This list is not created in order, so the best extension is not at the top of the list. Instead, we recommend that you download and test a variety of options.