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The Complete Guide to Joomla Aliases
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 07 December 2020 07 December 2020
In "The Complete Guide to Joomla Search Engine Friendly URLs", you've seen how to turn Joomla's default Search Engines Friendly URLs into URLs that are shorter, easier to remember, and easier to read.
What you are going to learn in this post is how these URLs are actually set up in your Joomla site. You will take a look at how to work with the alias feature that appears in various places in your Joomla site.
How to Redirect Sitemap.xml to Your OSMap Sitemap
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 04 December 2020 04 December 2020
OSMap is the most popular way to create a sitemap for Joomla sites.
In another tutorial, we showed you how to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console.
In this guide, I'm going to show you a more general way to allow any search engine to find your site. Some search engines will look for your sitemap at particular URL: example.com/sitemap.xml. Sitemaps work perfectly without using this URL, but redirecting sitemap.xml to your actual sitemap URL is one small step can make it easier for search engines. All that's needed is to copy the URL and add one line to your robots.txt file.
This tutorial will show you how to do that, step-by-step.
Read more: How to Redirect Sitemap.xml to Your OSMap Sitemap
How to Test the Account of Any Joomla User
- Written by Ed Andrea Ed Andrea
- Published: 26 November 2020 26 November 2020
The Shack User Switching plugin is for Joomla administrators and allows you to login as any user, but using your own password. You can mimic anyone else's login and see exactly what they see.
This is enormously helpful for us here at Joomlashack. This enables us check what our users see when they login. We can easily troubleshoot problems.
Here's how to use the Shack User Switching plugin:
How to Create Layout Overrides in Joomla
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 24 November 2020 24 November 2020
Joomla makes it possible to re-design almost any aspect of your site.
In a previous post, we explained how template overrides work. In this post, we're going to talk about layout overrides.
Layout overrides are more narrow and specific than template overrides. Layout overrides allow you to customize small portions of a design, for example: social icons, article titles and tags.
How to Create Layout Overrides for Joomla Tags
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 24 November 2020 24 November 2020
Joomla allows you to customize almost any feature through overrides.
Layout overrides are a type of override that enable you to customize small elements such as the article author or published date.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a layout override for Joomla tags.
How to Change the Joomla Homepage Layout
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 November 2020 23 November 2020
A question that comes up often of new users is this:
"How do I change the layout of the content on my frontpage?
To be more specific, the question is often about how to change the content layout from Joomla's default layout. The actual layout will vary depending on the sample data you choose. However, one common layout is the 1 column leading / 2 column intro / links layout that you can see in the image below:.
Create Joomla Blog Layouts That Users Can Select
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 23 November 2020 23 November 2020
One Joomlashack user wanted to create custom blog layouts that their users could chose from.
The user wanted to keep to choose different layouts in different situations. They wanted to use the default blog layout in some situations, and use a new design for some blog pages.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a custom layout and how to control it via your menu links.
How to Solve the Joomla Message: "AJAX Loading Error: Not Found"
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 November 2020 22 November 2020
Did you ever see this message when trying to update your Joomla site?
AJAX Loading Error: Not Found
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you a few options for getting rid of this error and smoothly running your Joomla update.
Read more: How to Solve the Joomla Message: "AJAX Loading Error: Not Found"
JCal Pro Has New Export Options and Filters
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 19 November 2020 19 November 2020
JCal Pro 4.5 is now available.
JCal Pro makes it easy to display your events in a stylish Joomla calendar. This week's release has a lot of code clean-up and refactoring, plus two new features you'll see while using it.
The first new feature is the ability to create customizable .ICS files or RSS feeds of your JCal Pro events. The other new feature is an improved set of frontend filters, including the ability to see all the events at a single location.
Joomla Video Grids with OSYouTube and Template Overrides
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 19 November 2020 19 November 2020
I'm going to show you how to create a video gallery on your Joomla site.
OSYouTube is the best Joomla plugin for embedding YouTube videos in Joomla. Template overrides are the best way to safely change the design of your site.
We're going to use OSYouTube and template overrides to create a stylish grid of videos.
Read more: Joomla Video Grids with OSYouTube and Template Overrides