The Joomlashack Blog
How to Create a Read More Link for a Single Joomla Article
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 29 August 2025 29 August 2025
By default, the "Read More" button in Joomla is designed for blog pages, showing just the first part of an article. You'll usually see it on a category or blog layout page, but not on a single article's page.
But what if you want to use a "Read More" link within a single article? Maybe you have a long article and want to show a short intro with a collapsible section for the full text. This is a common request, and while Joomla doesn't offer this feature out of the box, there's a simple workaround using the Tabs and Sliders extension.
In this post, I'll walk you through how to use this powerful Joomlashack extension to easily add a "Read More" button to any single article.
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How to Shorten Weekdays in JCalPro Monthly View
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 22 August 2025 22 August 2025
One of our customers asked how to switch the weekdays' format in JCal Pro monthly view from Sunday to Sun.
This shorter format will improve the JCal Pro monthly calendar view for small and mobile devices. In this blog post, I'll show you how to achieve this with Joomla Language Override technique.
How Do Joomla Menu Levels Work?
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 15 August 2025 15 August 2025
Joomla menus allow you to create multiple levels of navigation. This is essential for building sub-menus such as dropdowns.
Sometimes, you may only want to display one or two levels from your menu. For example, you might show the top-level links in your main navigation, and display sub-links separately in a sidebar menu.
In this post, we’ll show you how to display specific menu levels inside a Joomla sidebar module.
How to Embed YouTube Videos in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 08 August 2025 08 August 2025
Embedding YouTube videos is one of the most popular ways to enhance your Joomla site.
The OSYouTube plugin is the fastest and easiest way to do it. All you need to do is paste the video URL directly into your article.
OSYouTube is available in a completely free version. Here's how it works:
5 Essential Health Checks for Your Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 August 2025 01 August 2025
Over the last few years, we've helped a lot of people fix problems with their Joomla sites.
Although the problems sound different, we've found that many can be fixed with only five solutions.
If you implement all five, you'll have a safer, healthier and faster Joomla site.
Here are those five solutions.
How to Search and Replace Across a Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 25 July 2025 25 July 2025
Sometimes, you have a piece of text, an image, a URL, or even code that appears in multiple places across your Joomla 6 site. Normally, replacing them can be a tedious process:
- You open one page.
- You make the change.
- You close the page.
- You repeat the process on the next page, and so on.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to run a search and replace across your entire Joomla 6 site—all in one fell swoop.
How to Check for US Social Security Numbers in Shack Forms
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 18 July 2025 18 July 2025
One of our customers asked how to validate a US Social Security Number input in Shack Forms.
To validate input of your Shack Forms fields, you must use what is called "regular expressions" or RegEx.
In this post, you will learn how to use one of these regular expressions even if you don't know anything about them.
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OSMap Allows You to Add No Index for Joomla URLs
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 11 July 2025 11 July 2025
OSMap is the way to create a sitemap in Joomla. It allows you to create a sitemap so that search engines can find your content.
OSMap Pro also allows you to make Google ignore content included in your sitemap. If you have a menu item or article set to noindex, nofollow, Google bots won't crawl and won't index that link.
Play MP3 Files on Your Joomla Site
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 04 July 2025 04 July 2025
One of our customers asked how to play MP3 audio files on their Joomla site. Such files can significantly enhance your site content and help you achieve your site goals.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to embed an MP3 audio file in a Joomla article. You will learn to achieve this using the AllVideos plugin from JoomlaWorks.net.
How to Link to PDFs and Other Files in Joomla
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 27 June 2025 27 June 2025
One of the things that many people use their websites for is sharing documents. Many organizations produce a large number of documents and need to make them available on their site.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to share PDF documents in Joomla.