The Joomlashack Blog
Say Hello to Shack Article Manager, our 28th Extension
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 15 May 2019 15 May 2019
Over the last few years, we've been adopting extensions here at Joomlashack.
These extensions include Tabs and Sliders, JCal Pro, jInbound, Shack Forms, Shack Toolbox and Shack Open Graph amongst others. These are powerful and mature extensions that users love.
Joomlashack users have given us many suggestions for other extensions to adopt. One idea has been suggested far more than any other: User Article Manager. This extension was really popular in early Joomla versions. It allowed you to accept articles from the frontend of your site. It also allowed writers to manage their articles without logging into the Joomla admin.
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How to Add Font Awesome Icons to Joomla Menu Links
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 15 May 2019 15 May 2019
Some Joomla templates come with icon support for menu items. Some others come without it.
If your template doesn't support menu icons, we have a solution for you.
Continue reading this post to know how to add Font Awesome icons to your menu items.
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What Famous Sites Are Using Joomla?
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 13 May 2019 13 May 2019
Joomla was created by Australians, but now has a world-wide user base. You'll find Joomla people building sites in Europe, North America, South-east Asia and of course, Australia.
We're often asked about famous organizations or people who use Joomla for their website. Here's an overview of high-profile users, up-to-date for 2019.
How to Fix Error 1045 in phpMyAdmin
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 13 May 2019 13 May 2019
After installing a local WAMP server and trying to access your phpMyAdmin, you may encounter the error:
#1045 Access Denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
This may happen if your root@localhost MySQL database user was not granted the necessary rights to access the database. Or if you provided a wrong password.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to solve this error for the WAMP local server using phpMyAdmin.
How to Update Your Joomla 4 Alpha or Beta Test Site
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 10 May 2019 10 May 2019
Are you testing Joomla 4 and would like to know how to update it from one Alpha or Beta version to another?
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to update your Joomla 4 Alpha or Beta to its latest release, even with no automatic update available.
Let's start...
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How to Update Joomlashack Templates From Joomla Admin Area
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 10 May 2019 10 May 2019
If you use a Joomlashack template, please consider updating to the latest release. Why do we ask this? The latest versions of Joomlashack templates now use the Joomla update system.
This means that you can update templates with one-click from your admin area. This also means you can easily get the latest bug-fixes, security updates, and new features for your Joomlashack template.
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How to Fix Joomla folders and files permissions with Admin Tools
- Written by Nick Savov Nick Savov
- Published: 08 May 2019 08 May 2019
A common issue with server migrations, components installations, and site security in Joomla is wrong folders and files permissions. If you are new to Joomla folders and file permissions, please visit our tutorial How to Change Joomla Folder and File Permissions.
In this tutorial, however, you will learn how to fix wrong files and folders permissions using free Admin Tools Core. This popular component is a powerful way to quickly correct any folder and file permissions you may encounter.
Read more: How to Fix Joomla folders and files permissions with Admin Tools
How to Fix Broken Joomla User Groups
- Written by Steve Burge Steve Burge
- Published: 01 May 2019 01 May 2019
Joomla's user groups can be really powerful.
However, it's also possible to cause problems for yourself by making errors while setting up the user groups.
One Joomlasjhack member remained a super administrator and able to log-in to their site, but they lost the ability to see the administrator menu links and edit their site.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to rescue yourself if your super administrator account no longer has the permissions it should.
How to Integrate MailChimp with Shack Forms
- Written by Alex Smirnov Alex Smirnov
- Published: 01 May 2019 01 May 2019
One of our Shack Forms customers asked how to integrate Shack Forms (formerly known as "Perfect AJAX Popup Contact Form") and MailChimp.
In this blog post, you will learn how to create a Shack Form to sign up its submitters to a MailChimp list.
Show Different Joomla Template Styles on Different Pages
- Written by Valentín García Valentín García
- Published: 29 April 2019 29 April 2019
Template styles are a very powerful feature in Joomla. They allow you to assign different versions of the same template to specific pages.
In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to assign two template styles. We'll assign one style to the home page and another style to the rest of the site.
Read more: Show Different Joomla Template Styles on Different Pages