Today we released Flow, a Joomla template that's perfect for landing pages.
Flow is designed with a simple and clean approach. With clear call-to-action areas throughout the template, Flow is ideal for promoting products and services.
Flow is compatible with the very last version of the Wright framework, and comes with two commercial extensions: Easy Social Icons and Shackslides.
We are delighted to publish the 4th major class in our Joomla development series. These 4 classes now cover all the key areas of building Joomla extensions.
We've worked with Cory Webb, a Joomla developer since 2005, to create this series of 70 videos.
This 4th class is called "How to Develop Joomla Components. Part 2: the Frontend".
In these videos, you'll finish building the todo list component that was started in Part 1.
Join Joomlashack University for access to all these videos
Cory shows you how Joomla uses the MVC pattern for component development. You'll learn how to build Models, Views and Controllers in the recommended Joomla way. You'll also see how to create router files and language files, plus how to package your work for distribution.
At a recent Joomla event, a Joomlashack member asked me a really interesting question:
Do you recommend using a page builder to use with Joomlashack templates?
By "page builder", we were talking about extensions that allow you to design Joomla pages using a drag-and-drop interface.
I admitted that I hadn't used the page builders enough to give him a good answer. So, over the last couple of weeks, I downloaded and tested several Joomla page builders.
Here's an introduction to some of the most popular page builder options:
We released today JCal Pro 4.2.5, a new version of the best calendar component for Joomla.
Over the last few releases, we been improving the admin UI, so that JCal Pro looks more like the core Joomla UI.
In general, we think that extensions should look like Joomla, rather than have their own, completely unique design style. This makes it much easier for users, who don't have to learn a new interface.
In this post, we'll give you a quick summary of how the JCal Pro backend evolved during the last updates.
Wright is bootstrapped, responsive and lightweight. It's the best Joomla framework you'll find anywhere. Wright powers all the templates here at Joomlashack.
We've just released a free 13 video class on how to use the Wright Framework.
You'll learn how to use Wright to quickly create your own custom Joomla templates.
Simon Kloostra shows you how to install Wright and use Wright's default styles to quickly set up your template. You'll learn how Wright provides you with many of the Bootstrap's key features and components. You'll also be able to safely customize your template using custom CSS and PHP files that won't be over-ridden during any updates.
If you're using OSDonate (or any software that integrates with PayPal), your site needs to use a valid SSL certificate starting on Friday, June 30.
PayPal have a post on their developer blog with details on this important change.
Here's the important section of the PayPal post:
Despite being tremendously useful, template overrides for plugins are a type of override that is barely known in Joomla community.
There is no way to create this type of override from the Joomla backend. It is a completely manual process. Template overrides for plugins are intended for extensions that output content in frontend. This means just a few plugins are ready for this feature.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to easily create plugin overrides in Joomla.
Since the beginning of Joomla, users have created hidden menu links. This is a neccesary workaround because menu links control many of the features on Joomla pages - even pages that don't show in menus.
One very common use case is to create links to special sales pages and landing pages. Sometimes we need a menu link to set up the page, but we don't want that link to be easily visible.
"Add Menu Title" is a menu option that makes it really easy to hide links. Here's how it works ...
All our templates are built using the Wright Framework so we are constantly updating it and adding features. We just released version 3.3 of the Wright framework, and in addition to several improvements and bug fixes, it now includes improved RTL support.
If your website has text oriented from right to left (mostly likely you're using a language such as Hebrew and Arabic), then Wright is now better able to follow this approach.
Read more about what makes the Wright Framework unique.
Wright is the template framework we use at Joomlashack to create our commercial templates. We are always making it a little more awesome.
In this post, we will show you the process we follow to generate a working Joomla template by using Phing in combination with the Wright repository from Github, plus how to add your custom styles.
Read more about what makes the Wright Framework unique.
