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We are excited to announce the release of Shika 1.6 which brings plenty of interesting features. In this release you will get PHP 8 compatibility. Site administrators can now extend the subscriptions from the admin area. We have introduced the first-time course completion date tag for certificates in Shika. Configuration has been provided for hiding the marks when attempting the quiz.

I am sure you are already aware that we are gradually making all our paid products Joomla 4 compatible. We had recently released JGive for Joomla 4. The most comprehensive Invitations system for Joomla, Invitex is now available for Joomla 4 users! You can download Invitex v4.0.0 and the same package file will work on both Joomla 3 and Joomla 4.

Everyone had been asking for PHP 8 support for Email Beautifier a while. Email Beautifier is now compatible with PHP 8 as well as Joomla 3.10. PHP 8 has plenty of new features such as attributes, Union types, Match expression etc.

I am sure you are already aware that we are gradually making all our paid products Joomla 4 compatible. The most popular Joomla crowdfunding extension JGive is now available for Joomla 4 users! You can download JGive v3.0.0 and the same package file will work on both Joomla 3 and Joomla 4.

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We would like to wish all our clients a Happy New Year! We are very happy to announce our first release of the new year. JTicketing 3.3.5 is primarily a bug fix-release for the issues reported by our subscribers.

Besides this, we have also done some improvements in this release. Site administrators now have a configuration to add a pattern for validating attendee’s phone number at the checkout during purchase of tickets for the events. 

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We are happy to bring you our end of the year Christmas and New Year sale. Now is the time of the year to shop for your favorite products. Ring in the new year by grabbing some awesome deals on our extensions and bundles. Get 15% off on all Techjoomla products and bundles.

Note - Sale has been extended till 5th December 2021

We are ecstatic to bring you our most significant sale of the year. Celebrate Black Friday and Cyber Monday by grabbing some awesome deals on our extensions and bundles. To summarize, this is what our amazing deal brings you : 

• 40% off on Shika
• 30% off on all Techjoomla Products (excluding Shika)
• 15% off on all bundles getting you as much as 40% effective Discount

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Our most popular and free extension, PDF Embed, is now available for Joomla 4 users. You can download PDF Embed version 3.0 and the same package file will work on both Joomla 3 and Joomla 4.

Techjoomla is all pumped up for Diwali. The festival of lights is just around the corner and to celebrate Diwali, we are offering a flat 35% off on Shika, flat 20% off on all products and 10% off on all bundles.

Diwali offer has been extended and coupon code is only valid till 15th November, 2021.

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Joomla’s 16th Birthday was a special one as Joomla 4 release was announced on the same day on August 17th! A big congratulations to all Joomla users, supporters, developers and fans, who never gave up on Joomla and worked hard to help us all reach this important milestone. 

We are super pumped to announce the release of Shika 1.5 which brings plenty of interesting features. In this release, you will get a historical data migration tool for course completions down to lesson level which is very useful if you are migrating from a different LMS. Plus we’ve added the ability to extend enrolments with custom fields to serve a variety of use cases like tracking why a training was assigned to someone or track how it was utilized later. With the new Access level support for paid courses, you can now offer different prices to different levels of customers.

Do you have Google Search Console configured on your Joomla website?  If not, then you won’t be able to check your website performance that will determine the SEO score of your website. Many of you must be knowing about the Google Search Console aka the Google Webmaster tool. This tool helps website owners or admin to monitor and maintain the searc...

The long wait is over! We are super excited to announce the release of Shika 1.4 which brings plenty of interesting features along with several improvements. 

We have introduced a QR code for validating the authenticity of the certificates. Site administrators can track the downloads for the associated files in the backend. With the certificate expiry implementation, users can retake the course and generate a new certificate if their certificate has expired. Site administrators can now archive the user’s attempts from the backend.

Detailed upgrade related instructions are given in the release notes. Make sure you read them carefully before you upgrade. 

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We are happy to announce a brand new integration between the German Payment and affiliate provider CopeCart with Shika, our Joomla learning management system(LMS). Recently, the Joomla! Developer Roland Meier from Medialekt added this feature into the CopeCart Connect extension, so purchases via CopeCart get directly enrolled in Shika.

At Techjoomla, we have always been committed to contributing to the open source Joomla community. Our co-founders, Parth Lawate and Ashwin Date have been speaking at Joomla events all across the globe. We have been enthusiastically organizing Joomla Pizza Bugs and Fun events for many years. Having a sense of community helps us to bridge a strong bond across all Joomlers.