One of our customers asked how to open a Shack Forms Pro contact form module with a button. Every form module you create in the Shack Forms Pro component provides you with an HTML code for a hyperlink that will open this particular form module. You can then add some basic inline CSS code to this HTML link to convert it to a button and style its design as you see fit. In this blog post, you will learn how to add a Shack Forms Pro button inside a Joomla article ..read more

JCal Pro is a powerful extension for Joomla that allows you to create and manage events on your website. One of its great features is the ability for your viewers to export future events directly from the front end of your site. This functionality is incredibly useful for users who want to add your upcoming events to their desktop, mobile, or online calendars, ensuring they never miss an important date. Here is a birds-eye view of this feature ..read more

We are thrilled to share some exciting news with our Dutch community! Our OSCampus Pro, OSEmbed, OSVimeo, and OSYouTube extensions now fully support the Dutch language, thanks to the dedicated efforts of René Kreijveld, a phenomenal contributor to our translation projects ..read more

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