The Joomlashack Blog
How to Hide the "Free" Class Label in OSCampus
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 21 October 2019 21 October 2019
One of our customers asked how to hide the "Free" class label seen next to a class name under the "Table of Contents" tab. You can achieve this with a simple CSS tweak.
In this blog post, I will show you how to apply this CSS tweak and keep it intact after your next OSCampus upgrade.
How to Add Shack Forms Fields to Your Mailchimp Audience
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 October 2019 18 October 2019
You can integrate Shack Forms with Mailchimp to build an email list. But Shack Forms allows you to add more than just the subscriber's email address, name and a phone number to the Mailchimp database of your email list subscribers.
You can add in it any piece of data as you see fit. And the more data you have for each of your email list subscribers, the more tailored and targeted your email marketing campaigns you send to them could become.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to add a Shack Forms field to your Mailchimp email list.
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How to Troubleshoot Shack Forms Emails Not Being Received
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 October 2019 17 October 2019
Shack Forms is one of the most popular forms extensions in Joomla. Shack Forms can automatically send emails to the form submitters and to your site administrators.
However, when you start sending out emails, things can become complex. You have to deal with mail servers, hosting companies, Gmail, Outlook, spam filters and many other variables.
You may find out that for some reason your Shack Forms emails are not being received.
Here is a quick guide to troubleshooting this issue.
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Your Getting Started Tutorial for JCal Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 16 October 2019 16 October 2019
Almost every organization's web site can benefit from an events calendar. For Joomla web sites, the obvious and most popular choice is the JCal Pro extension.
It offers simplicity, flexibility, a robust feature set and gorgeous templates to fit almost any color scheme.
From private and community calendars, to event moderation and integration with popular extensions such as JomSocial and Community Builder, JCal Pro is sure to fit your calendar needs.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to get started with JCal Pro Joomla calendaring extension.
Your Getting Started Tutorial for Shack Forms Pro
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 October 2019 15 October 2019
With our "Shack Forms" Joomla extension you can easily create contact forms, booking forms, support ticket forms, newsletter sign-up forms and many other types of forms.
This forms extension has tens of thousands of happy users. It has more than three hundred reviews and a perfect 10/10 score on the Joomla Extensions Directory.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to get started with Shack Forms Pro Joomla extension.
Read more: Your Getting Started Tutorial for Shack Forms Pro
Your Getting Started Tutorial for OSMap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 14 October 2019 14 October 2019
A Joomla sitemap will help Google and other search engines find and understand your site's content. OSMap is the best Joomla sitemap extension.
It is the easiest way to add a sitemap to your Joomla site. All you need to do is install OSMap and it will do the rest. OSMap will automatically create a Google-friendly sitemap for all your content.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to get started with OSMap.
The Joomlashack Conference is Online: November 6th, 7th and 8th
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 October 2019 11 October 2019
Five years ago, our team held an online Joomla Day with over 20 speakers from around the world. Over 1,000 people attended! You can see videos from that event on YouTube.
I'm delighted to say we're planning to host another online Joomla Day on November 6th, 7th and 8th.
Many of you don't live close to an in-person Joomla event, so this online version can reach many more people. Just like any normal Joomla event, we'll have presentations of 30 to 40 minutes, followed by questions.
Read more: The Joomlashack Conference is Online: November 6th, 7th and 8th
How to Create a Field with Countries in Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 October 2019 11 October 2019
You can very quickly and easily build Joomla forms with our Shack Forms Joomla extension. Your form can be fairly simple, collecting just a name and an email.
With Shack Forms, you can also quickly build a more advanced form. One of our customers asked how to allow a form submitter to select their country.
In this blog tutorial, I'll show you how to create a field with countries in Shack Forms.
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Say Hello to Shack Slides: the Joomlashack Slideshow Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 October 2019 04 October 2019
Joomla and Joomlashack have been around for over 14 years now.
So many things have changed in that time. But, many of the very best Joomla extensions are still going strong! Watchful did a survey of the most popular Joomla extensions and the winners all launched in 2006 and 2007.
We have one extension that's been at Joomlashack since those days: Shack Slides.
Read more: Say Hello to Shack Slides: the Joomlashack Slideshow Extension
How to Create Mailchimp Groups
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 October 2019 04 October 2019
Some of our Joomla extensions allow you to easily integrate them with Mailchimp email marketing service. You can use Shack Forms, or OSDownloads Pro and instantly start building an email list.
But for target marketing, Mailchimp allows you to segment your email list into groups. In this document, you will learn how to create your Mailchimp groups.