If you have been using Joomla 4, it's time to update to Joomla 5. Joomla 5 is a smooth, one-click update for Joomla 4 users. There are no major changes in this version. All Joomlashack extensions are fully compatible with Joomla 5 ..read more

Joomla 3 support was officially retired by the Joomla team in August 2023. The Joomla community is moving forward with Joomla 4, and soon, Joomla 5. In another post, we outlined our future plans for Joomla 4. In this post, I'll look backwards and explain our plans for Joomla 3. In that original Joomla 4 post, I said this: "[Our] goal is to support as many of our customers, as well as we can, for as long as we can." We still have a good number of Joomlashack customers using Joomla 3. So to meet our goal, we've decided to support those Joomla 3 users for at least one more year ..read more

Over the last two years, we've been hard at work upgrading Joomlashack products for Joomla 4. Some of the extension updates were done in an afternoon. Some of the biggest extensions took over a year to update. As we learned more about the Joomla 4 update process, we came to decisions about each product. We evaluated how many people we using it, how difficult it was to upgrade, and whether the product still had value for users in 2023. Here is a list of the Joomlashack products which we will continue to develop and support, plus a separate list of those that are discontinued ..read more

OSpam-a-not is the easiest way to protect your Joomla site from spam bots filling out your forms. The OSpam-a-not plugin uses a clever and unobtrusive technique to protect your forms from a flood of spam. We created OSpam-a-not because we needed better Joomla spam prevention. We use OSpam-a-not ourselves, so we maintain it and update it regularly. OSpam-a-not supports all the forms in the Joomla core and many from third-party extensions. For a long time, there was only a Free version of OSpam-a-not. This limited how much support we gave to the product. So this week, we've released a Pro versi ..read more

JCal Pro is now available for Joomla 4 users! You can download JCal Pro version 5.0 and it will work on your Joomla 4 sites. This is the 24th extension that we've updated for Joomla 4! JCal Pro is the best calendar and event registration extension for Joomla. JCal Pro offers simplicity, flexibility, event moderation, and a robust feature set. From private and community calendars to commercial events, JCal Pro is sure to fit your calendar needs ..read more

This week we were really happy to announce the release of JCal Pro for Joomla 4. It took us around a year to update this extension. Overall, it has taken us nearly two years to prepare our extensions for Joomla 4, and we're not finished yet. I wrote a little about this process in our 2022 review: "We found that it was possible to move a simple extension from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4 in a couple of hours. Our first upgrades were easy, and we migrated several basic extensions in one day. With bigger extensions, the upgrade time increased exponentially. Our medium-sized extensions took three or four ..read more

We're delighted to say that we've nearly finished completing our last major extension upgrade for Joomla 4. There is a Release Candidate available for JCal Pro on Joomla 4. If you are launching a new Joomla 4 site, you can install and use this latest version. We would love to hear your real-world feedback. The more feedback we get, the faster this release can be officially marked as "Stable ..read more

Shack Forms is now available for Joomla 4 users! You can download Shack Forms version 5 and it will work on both Joomla 3 and Joomla 4. This is the 20th extension that we've updated for Joomla 4. Shack Forms is the easiest and most powerful way to add forms for your Joomla site. This extension allows you to create forms and then show them in your articles, inside pop-ups, in modules, or anywhere you want. Please note: This is a very big update that took many months work. We expect to release several updates as we find and fix some bugs. There is no need to update your sites to Shack Forms 5 i ..read more

Thank you all for your support of Joomlashack. Joomlashack started in 2005, but our team took over the site in 2016.  At the end of every year we write a review of what happened at Joomlashack. If you want to look back, here is our 2016 review, 2017 review, 2018 review, 2019 review, and 2020 review. We always aim to avoid writing "everything was awesome" posts. We try and give you honesty and insight into Joomlashack's year. There are always plenty of ups and downs. You'll find plenty of stories of both success and failure in these posts ..read more

Shack Analytics is now available for Joomla 4 users! You can download Shack Analytics version 1.0.8 and the same package file will work on both Joomla 3 and Joomla 4. Shack Analytics is a single extension to manage all the analytics code on your sites.  Joomla site owners often have scripts such as Google Analytics, Adwords, Clicky, Facebook, MailChimp and other sites. But those scripts are hidden away inside random modules, plugins or template files ..read more