How Shack Forms Integrates with SobiPro

How Shack Forms Intergrates with SobiPro

In the previous blog post, you learned that Shack Forms Pro can be a very handy tool for some 3-rd party Joomla extensions. You learned that your Joomla users or Community Builder users can send messages to your Community Builder users via a Shack Form. 

But Shack Forms also integrates with SobiPro, another popular Joomla extension. This integration will allow your site visitors to contact owners of the entries of your SobiPro directory. In this blog post, I will show you how Shack Forms integrates with SobiPro.

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How Shack Forms Integrates with Community Builder

Shack Forms Pro is not just a Joomla extension for building forms. Although it does indeed allow you to quickly and easily build nicely looking forms, it can also complement your 3-rd party Joomla extensions. It integrates with Community Builder, JomSocial, SobiPro and Zoo.

In the case of Community Builder, Shack Forms Pro becomes a communication tool between your Community Builder users and your Joomla users. In this blog post, I will show you how Shack Forms integrates with Community Builder.

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Security Best Practices for your Joomla Agency

Security Best Practices for your Joomla Agency

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel. There's a single playlist for all conference videos.

This presentation is from Vic Drover, the CEO of Watchful. We've written before about how we rely on Watchful here at Joomlashack.

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How Joomla Helped Build a Site for Writers, Readers and Publishers

How Joomla Helped Build a Site for Writers, Readers and Publishers

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel. There's a single playlist for all conference videos.

This presentation is from Robert Fairhead, from Sydney, Australia. It is his personal case study. This is the first presentation of this type where the speaker talks about one particular website they built, all the ins and outs and the challenges that were involved in building it.

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How to Set up a Quiz in OSCampus Pro

What Is a Quiz in OSCampus Pro

If you need to set an online training on your Joomla site, OSCampus Pro is the best tool to do this job. It allows you to set online courses, lessons, and quizzes.

This week we had a customer asking about what a quiz is and how it works. In this blog post, I will explain exactly that.

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How to Optimize and Improve the Joomla Admin Area

How to Optimize and Improve the Joomla Admin Area

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel.

This presentation was from Peter Martin and shows you how to improve the Joomla admin area.

Peter's presentation has 101 different tips for improving your site. If you're a regular Joomla user, you may know several of them, but I 100% guarantee you'll come away from this talk with at least several great new ideas.

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How Debugging a Sitemap Works in OSMap

How Debuging a Sitemap Works in OSMap

Sitemaps help search engines find and index your Joomla site content. OSMap is one of the most popular Joomla sitemap extensions. 

If you are having an issue with your sitemap, the "Debug" feature will help uncover problems. In this blog post, I will show you how this feature works.

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How to Create Custom 404 Pages in Joomla

Create Custom 404 Pages in Joomla

By default, Joomla does not provide a 404 page that you can easily create and manage.

A 404 is really useful for guiding your visitors when they visit a broken URL on your site.

I'm going to demonstrate how to create a custom 404 page.

We're going to create an article, add a menu link and then add a little code to a file in your template folder.

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Everything You Need to Know About Joomla 4 in One Video

Everything You Need to Know About Joomla 4 in One Video

We held the Joomlashack Conference over 3 days in mid-November.

This was a free conference featuring 20 of the best speakers from around the Joomla world.

I was amazed at how good the presentations were. We're currently editing all the videos and posting them to the Joomlashack YouTube channel. There's a single playlist for all conference videos.

The first presentation we've published is from George Wilson, one of Joomla's lead developers. I introduced George and joked that this was the conference keynote. George is such a humble guy that he brushed off that compliment. But there's no doubt that everyone interested in Joomla should watch George's talk.

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How to Create a Conference With Events in JCal Pro

Do you need to create a multi-day conference event for your Joomla site? With the JCal Pro Joomla extension, you can set it in a few clicks. 

Our three-day online "Joomlashack Conference 2019" that we held the last week, could be a perfect fit to demonstrate such use case.

  • We held this online Joomla conference in 2019 in three days: November 6, November 7, and November 8.
  • On November 6, the event started at 12 PM (US Eastern time) and finished at 6 PM. 
  • On November 7, the event started at 8 AM and finished at 7 PM.
  • On November 8, the event once again started at 8 AM and finished at 7 PM.

In this blog post, I will show you how to set a similar multi-day event in JCal Pro.

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