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Joomla is more CMS than ever before!

Joomla is more CMS than ever before!

What Features Makes Joomla a Better CMS out of the box? Lets take a look at the features that make Joomla a better CMS out of the box. here we are mainly going to cover features which are important to Joomla as a Content Management System. There are quite a few other features that Joomla has besides this, but thats another blog! Out of the box resp...

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Shika Learning Reimagined Webinar!

Shika Learning Reimagined Webinar!

“Shika” the most awaited LMS for Joomla is very close to a public release and the excitement is growing. Many of the customers who have availed to be Shika Early Adopters have already been playing with it and giving some great feedback. A lot of you have asked for a closer look at what Shika is all about. So we have tied up with CloudAccess to brin...

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Invitex 2.9 is here with Easysocial Apps and Plenty more!

Invitex 2.9 is here with Easysocial Apps and Plenty more!

Whether you are building a simple Joomla website, a Social network or a powerful web application; driving traffic is critical for your success. Invitex is the most powerful Viral Invitations system for Joomla today and we have just made it even more awesome ! 

We are happy to announce that Invitex v2.9 is now available to all subscribers and it comes packed with features, lots of bug fixes and lots of UI improvements. Read on to see what all is new with Invitex !

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Adding a parameter to Joomla component's menu item is as easy as pie!

Adding a parameter to Joomla component's menu item is as easy as pie!

Hey Guys, In this blog we are going to see how to add a parameter to a Joomla component's menu item. This parameter can be used while referring view level in Joomla 2.5.x or 3.x.Following are the steps to achieve this. Step 1: You have to specify parameter / option in your_layout.xml file in your component.Lets say, you have to add “pageLimit” para...

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Canva plugin v1.0.1 for Joomla released

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Hey all, We have released a maintenance version for  'Canva plugin for Joomla'. This release addresses the javascript issue fix reported on our forums. Special thanks to our member "upsetter" for giving us patch for this on the forum. Changelog:- Bug fixes:Bug #33151 Javascript errors on 'Zoo' add item page^ Improvements:+ Minor changes in the plug...

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Quick Update on Shika LMS - Awesome new changes that you will love!

Quick Update on Shika LMS - Awesome new changes that you will love!

Attention everyone ! Please. No talking between yourselves !! Haha :) did that make you remember your schooling days? Well, even your old class teacher will be blown away by what we have in store for you in the new Beta of Shika. Note that this is not a public beta yet.

The fastest way to get an overview of what's coming is to watch our demo video below!

Rather read about it? Click on read more to see the full details and screenshots

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JBolo v3.1.3 minor update released

JBolo v3.1.3 minor update released

Hey All, We have released a minor update for JBolo. This release v3.1.3 includes following changes.  We suggest you to upgrade to this version. Changelog - Bug #31250 EasySocial activity stream module not getting shown on Facebook theme- Bug #29820 Can not send a message containing only 0. 10 gets sent, 0 does not^ Task #29819 Implement Ajax q...

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Let your images speak for you with Canva plugin for Joomla by Techjoomla!

Let your images speak for you with Canva plugin for Joomla by   Techjoomla!

Someone has rightly said, “A Picture is worth a thousand words”. You can convey a lot through pictures. Creating content is not just about attracting traffic. You need to get them interested in reading your content. When writing content for your website or blog for that matter anything, use of correct pictures can do wonders for you. When scanning ...

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3 ways to do RESTful APIs in Joomla

3 ways to do RESTful APIs in Joomla

There has been a growing trend to start offering RESTful services for any web product, and Joomla is no exception. With Joomla, however, there is no "preferred" way of writing RESTful services so everyone (that includes us) is trying to build their own component and plugin to enable RESTful services in Joomla. We did the very first REST implementat...

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Shika - Changing the face of learning in Joomla. Development updates!

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If you have been following our blog, you will know that we are close to launching a brand new Social Learning system for Joomla.  Its an exciting time for us and development is in full swing! This blog will give you a quick update on where we are.  If you want to know more about Shika - the Social Joomla LMS, read our Labs Post here

We would love to hear your feedback about what you think of the development and UI so far and give us your valuable inputs. 

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Quick2cart brings E-commerce to Seblod

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It gives us great pleasure to announce that a Seblod integration has been developed by one of the members of the community!

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JBolo v 3.1.1 comes with New Easy-Profile Community Extension Integration

Hey Chatters, We are glad to announce the new JBolo version 3.1.1 which now has a new integration option for "Easy-Profile" Community Extension.Easy-Profile component lets you create - Profiled users by creating custom fields. You can choose to create the following types of fields: text, textarea/editor, image, select (dropdown), radio, checkb...

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Joomla: Using JLayout 'Search Tools' on Joomla 3.x at admin backend for list views

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Are you building admin list-view in your Joomla Extension? Do you want to include Search Tools in your Joomla 3.x extension? Here is a quick guide to doing so in easy steps.

First, we will check the folder structure needed, and then we will see sample code.

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Getting back your DISQUS comments after a site migration

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Lot of us love to have DISQUS comments on our sites. It's one of those hosted commenting systems that adds virality to all content and comments on your site. Techjoomla uses DISQUS too, and during our recent site upgrade we had a challenge ensuring that our comments get carried over since the migration meant that the links/URLs to all our pages got...

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Using Joomla logging to easily debug MySQL issues

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Sometimes, you might have operations like crons running PHP scripts behind the scenes. If there are any errors in it, it can become difficult to debug them since they might not affect the entire website. Whether you are doing this with any PHP framework or in a Joomla component, logging can help you debug such issues.Here is how you can use Joomla'...

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