The Joomlashack Blog
What are Multilingual Associations in Joomla?
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 16 November 2018 16 November 2018
Joomla has a component called "Multilingual Associations". This will make your life much easier if you build multi-lingual Joomla sites.
Before this component was added, there was no easy place to manage all of your translation items. Every translated item had to be found and edited individually. With the Multilingual Associations component, you will be able to edit all your translations in a single interface. This will save you a lot of time and energy.
How to Create Hidden Menu Items in Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 08 November 2018 08 November 2018
Since the beginning of Joomla, users have created hidden menu links. This is a neccesary workaround because menu links control many of the features on Joomla pages - even pages that don't show in menus.
One very common use case is to create links to special sales pages and landing pages. Sometimes we need a menu link to set up the page, but we don't want that link to be easily visible.
"Add Menu Title" is a menu option that makes it really easy to hide links. Here's how it works ...
CSS Grid #15. The justify-content and align-content Properties
- Written by Jorge Montoya Jorge Montoya
- Published: 07 November 2018 07 November 2018
In the previous CSS Grid tutorial, you learned about the align and justify properties to center and align items within a grid on the horizontal and vertical axes.
However, there are cases in which the total size of the grid is less than the size of the grid container. This happens because all items within the grid and the container itself are sized with fixed values (px, em, rem).
In such cases, it is necessary to align the tracks themselves, that is the whole grid, in order to exploit and fill up that additional empty space. In such a situation, you can make use of the align-content and justify-content properties. This is what I will explain in this tutorial.
Read more: CSS Grid #15. The justify-content and align-content Properties
How to Use the User Actions Log in Joomla
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 06 November 2018 06 November 2018
The Joomla team recently released Joomla 3.9. We wrote a post explaining 10 New Features You'll See in Joomla 3.9.
One of the features that got the best reaction was "User Actions Log", which allows you to audit user activities. This new extension allows you to track who is doing what on your site. You can track who logged in, who created articles, who installed extensions and much more.
In this blog post, I will give you a tour of this new feature.
How to Use Joomla's Privacy and GDPR Features
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 31 October 2018 31 October 2018
The GDPR privacy laws came into force in May 2018. If you're new to the GDPR, we've got some reading resources at the bottom of this post.
In this guide, I'm going to focus on how Joomla is dealing with the GDPR. The main privacy improvements arrived in Joomla 3.9. The Joomla team have developed several new extensions to help you protect the privacy of your users.
10 New Features You'll See in Joomla 3.9
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 30 October 2018 30 October 2018
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.
Read more: CSS Grid #14. Centering and Aligning Items in CSS Grid
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.
Read more: How to Use Joomla Fields - the Complete Tutorial!