6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms

6 Ways to Display a Contact Us Form with Shack Forms

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.

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Easily See Google Analytics Statistics for Joomla Pages

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.

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Converting a WordPress Site to Joomla

How to convert a WordPress site to Joomla

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.

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How to Create Frontend Event Moderators in JCal Pro

How to Assign a Front-End Event Moderator in JCal Pro

JCal Pro is the best calendar extension for Joomla sites.

Over the last weeks, we've talked with several JCal Pro customers who are alllowing users to create events via the frontend of their site. So, we've been writing more documentation to help them, including articles on creating events, registering for events, and giving access to event creation.

This week's tutorial will show you how to allow users to moderate events that are submitted. To create a moderator, you need to follow these five steps:

  1. Create a Joomla user group for your JCal Pro event moderators.
  2. Create a Joomla access level for the moderators.
  3. Set the correct permissions for the moderators.
  4. Choose Joomla users as moderators.
  5. Create a frontend menu link for moderators to use.

Let's take a look at this process in more detail.

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The Share It plugin is now called Shack Article Sharing

The Share It plugin is now called Shack Article Sharing

Back in January, we looked ahead to 2019 and set three main goals for the year:

  1. Provide customers with a smooth transition to Joomla 4.
  2. Integrate our extensions. For example, we can expand OSMap to provide support for all our new extensions.
  3. Improve the Joomlashack brand by redesigning the logo and rebranding our extensions.

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How to Manually Install Joomla Using cPanel

How to Manually Install Joomla Using cPanel

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.

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Joomla: Updates Table Doesn't Exist

Joomla: Updates Table Doesn't Exist

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.

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How to Change the Default Language in Joomla

When you create a new install of Joomla, you have to choose a default language.

For example, if you choose English (UK) as the default language, your site will use that language in the backend and frontend.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to change that default. I'll show you how to set up a new language pack in Joomla and set that as the default.

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Introducing the New Joomlashack Logo

Introducing the New Joomlashack Logo

I owe a big "Thank You" to the Joomlashack community.

Just over two months ago, I wrote a post called "We Are Working on a New Joomlashack Logo".

I described all the problems we found while trying to design a new logo. In the end, I presented a new version of the logo and said:

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How to Create a Blog With Joomla

How to Create a Blog With Joomla

One Joomlashack member was asking us about Joomla blogging extensions. They wondered what extension we use for the Joomlashack blog.

Our answer was "None!" We run one of the most popular blogs in Joomla and it's almost entirely done using the Joomla core.

In this guide, I'll show you step-by-step how to build a blog that looks exactly as ours.

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