The Joomlashack Blog
How to Create a Google News Sitemap for Joomla Sites
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
Google News is an excellent source of traffic for many sites.
To help them find your articles, Google wants you to submit a specially-formatted sitemap which has custom news tags and only lists content added in the last 2 days.
I'm going to show you how to create a sitemap for your Joomla site that Google News will accept.
Read more: How to Create a Google News Sitemap for Joomla Sites
OSMap: Removing Links From a Joomla Sitemap
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
OSMap is the best and easiest way to create a Joomla sitemap.
When you install OSMap, it automatically creates a sitemap for you.
For more advanced users, it's possible to edit your sitemaps to include or exclude certain URLs. You may want to do this for visual purposes (you want a short and clean sitemap) or for SEO purposes (to exclude certain URLs from Google's index).
Say Hello to the new OSCampus Pathways Module
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 23 April 2019 23 April 2019
OSCampus now includes a module called OSCampus Pathways. The module produces a stylish frontend preview of your online training pathways and their courses.
Once you update ti OSCampus 1.4.3, you will get the OSCampus Pathways module automatically installed.
In this blog post, I will give you a brief tour of this new module. You will learn how it looks at your Joomla site public frontend. You will also take a look at what backend settings allow you to customize the frontend display.
How to Place Two Images Next to Each Other in a Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 17 April 2019 17 April 2019
One of our customers asked how to place two images in their Joomla article next to each other. They also wanted the images to take the full page width.
For one article only, this can be done styling each of the two images individually. This is what you will learn in this post.
Read more: How to Place Two Images Next to Each Other in a Joomla Article
6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 12 April 2019 12 April 2019
One of our customers asked for the best way to display a "Contact Us" form on their Joomla site.
Our answer was "It depends!"
You may want to display a form prominently or subtly. You may wish to display the form on all your pages, or as a pop-up on only a few key pages.
The good news is that Shack Forms supports many different ways to display your forms.
Read more: 6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms
Easily See Google Analytics Statistics for Joomla Pages
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 11 April 2019 11 April 2019
Google Analytics can tell you how many times users visits different pages on your website.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to enable this feature directly within your Chrome browser. As you browse around your Joomla site, you'll be able to easily see statistics for any page you're viewing.
Read more: Easily See Google Analytics Statistics for Joomla Pages
Converting a WordPress Site to Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 10 April 2019 10 April 2019
This tutorial will show you how to move an existing WordPress site over to Joomla. This will work for many WordPress versions up to 5 and will work for Joomla 3.
We also have a tutorial showing how to move in the opposite direction, migrating from Joomla to WordPress.
The Share It plugin is now called Shack Article Sharing
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 03 April 2019 03 April 2019
Back in January, we looked ahead to 2019 and set three main goals for the year:
- Provide customers with a smooth transition to Joomla 4.
- Integrate our extensions. For example, we can expand OSMap to provide support for all our new extensions.
- Improve the Joomlashack brand by redesigning the logo and rebranding our extensions.
Read more: The Share It plugin is now called Shack Article Sharing
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.