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10 New Features You'll See in Joomla 3.9

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 30 October 2018 30 October 2018

What New Features Will You See in Joomla 3.9?

Joomla 3.9 is now live and ready for you to use!

The Joomla team is putting most of their focus and energy into Joomla 4, but they still found time to release Joomla 3.9.

Joomla 3.9 introduces over 200 new features, improvements and bug fixes. The most important changes involve privacy and the GDPR, but there are many other helpful new features.

CSS Grid #14. Centering and Aligning Items in CSS Grid

: Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya; Published: 29 October 2018 29 October 2018

Welcome to the 14th tutorial in our series on the CSS Grid.

We are presenting this series to help Joomla developers learn about CSS Grid. The introduction of CSS Grid will be one of the major changes in Joomla 4.

Vertically centering elements on a web page has been an issue for web designers and developers when working with CSS.

How to Disable XML Styling in OSMap

: Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov; Published: 25 October 2018 25 October 2018

One of our members was having trouble submitting his sitemap to Google. The message displayed at Google was:

"Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead."

This tutorial will show you how to disable XML styling in OSMap, which should fix the issue. Let's get started.

How to Add Custom Fields to Joomla Contact Forms

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 23 October 2018 23 October 2018

Many people choose to use an extension such as Shack Forms to create their contact forms.

Shack Forms is a great choice, but with the arrival of custom fields in Joomla, you can also customize contact forms with the Joomla core.

How to Use Joomla Fields - the Complete Tutorial!

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 23 October 2018 23 October 2018

Custom fields are very important and useful Joomla feature.

Using Joomla fields, you can add many different types of fields, including Calendars, Checkboxes, Color pickets, Lists, Images and much more. You can read our overview of all 15 field types.

These Joomla fields can improve core parts of Joomla including articles, contact forms, users. You'll also find extensions that support fields including our own OSDownloads.

In this introduction, I'll show you how Joomla fields work.

CSS Grid #13: The auto-fill and auto-fit Keywords in CSS Grid

: Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya; Published: 16 October 2018 16 October 2018

Welcome to the 13th tutorial in our series on the CSS Grid.

We are presenting this series to help Joomla developers learn about CSS Grid. The introduction of CSS Grid will be one of the major changes in upcoming Joomla 4.

As you already learned, it is possible to create repeating track patterns with help of the repeat notation.

However, using this method gives you a fixed number of tracks, independently of the content inside each one of them.

The auto-fill and auto-fit keywords will allow you to place as many tracks of the specified size as possible, depending on the size of the viewport. This tutorial will explain the usage of these keywords.

Let’s start!

Introducing the Joomla 4 Workflows Feature

: Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov; Published: 11 October 2018 11 October 2018

The Joomla team have been working hard on version 4.

Here at Joomlashack, we've been writing about all the new features in Joomla 4, including the new admin template, media library and installer.

I'm going introduce you to another new Joomla 4 feature: Workflows. This new extension allows you to approve content before it's published.

Keep in mind that Joomla 4 is only at the Alpha stage. A lot of work remains to be done before Joomla 4 is ready for production use. However, this Content Workflow feature is really great!

CSS Grid #12: The minmax() Function

: Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya; Published: 08 October 2018 08 October 2018

Welcome to the 12th tutorial in our series on the CSS Grid.

We are presenting this series to help Joomla developers learn about CSS Grid. The introduction of CSS Grid will be one of the major changes in upcoming Joomla 4.

Accordng to the CSS Grid Specification, minmax()

Defines a size range greater than or equal to min and less than or equal to max.

In other words, the minmax() function provides a method to specify the minimum and maximum sizes of a grid track. Thus, the minimax() takes two values as parameters.

This tutorial will explain the use of this CSS function.

Getting to Hello World With Your First Joomla Plugin

: Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge; Published: 28 September 2018 28 September 2018

Are you ready to learn how to build Joomla plugins?

These powerful extensions act on Joomla's trigger events to perform almost any task that you can imagine. Plugins are responsible for a huge variety of tasks on your site from logins, to search, to article features and 1,001 other things.

Inside Joomlashack University, you'll find detailed classes on every aspect of Joomla development. In these 3 videos, we'll show you how to set up your Joomla plugin environment and create a "Hello World" plugin.

CSS Grid #11: How to Place Items with Grid Template Areas

: Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya; Published: 25 September 2018 25 September 2018

Welcome to the 11th tutorial in our series on the CSS Grid.

We are presenting this series to help Joomla developers learn about CSS Grid. The introduction of CSS Grid will be one of the major changes in upcoming Joomla 4.

In past tutorials, you learned how to place items on a grid using the span keyword and/or using a line-based placement.

There’s another method for placing items on a grid. You can create areas inside the grid with your own specific names and then position the items

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