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Any Joomla developer worth his salt knows to use JRoute::_() to ensure he produces SEF URLs. This is an important SEO thing! However, if you’re writing code that does things from the Joomla Admin, the URLs turn out to be non-SEF. No I’m not talking about the URLs of the Joomla Admin itself. For Instance, Shika sends a notification email with a link...

Reliable email delivery is key in web applications, you don't want your customers to miss that order confirmation email or skip that very important Social Network notification. When using a service like Amazon SES, that additionally helps you improve your email sending quota if your web host gives you a rather small quota. It's fairly easy to get u...

On demand of our very own Shika Early Adopters, we have introduced some cool new features. Besides these features, there are a lot of bug fixes done. What are the new additions? Course and lesson alias With Alias for Courses and Lessons they’re going to be more Search Engine Friendly. Youtube plugin Previously we were facing problems with Youtube v...

We are going to talk to Peter Bui, Managing Director of PB Web Development in this The Joomla Speak interview. I met him at the Joomla World Conference 2015, Bangalore, India. A fun loving person who is also a Joomla Enthusiast and Contributor. Let’s get to know his thoughts on Joomla! What's your Joomla story? How did you get introduced?...

Note: This Blog is targeted to developers! Sometimes the module positions that come with your template are just not enough, or if you’re a developer you might want to allow your users to load modules inside various parts of your component. A good example is if you want to publish Ads coming from SocialAds on your EasySocial stream without changing ...

It has been a really long time since a SocialAds release. You all might want to ask, "What took it so long?" Well, we have been working on a major rewrite of the extension and we’re almost there. Apart from a simple, cleaner code and an amazingly fast working SocialAds... This is what you can expect! Backend Dashboard Admin will be effectively able...

When you are handling date and time, its likely that a developer might get confused on what is the right way to handle multiple timezones. Let’s make this Crystal Clear! As you can see in the Image below, the date selected is 2015-08-26 05:30:00, This is the user’s timezone date and time. If we save the same date in our database it would mismatch f...

Have you ever wondered what are the best practices in planning a new concept or idea and what goes into the process of turning ideas to realities? We ourselves do a lot of Product Development here at Techjoomla as well as at our parent company. We have closely seen the process of  product development from ideation to production and marketing i...

Note: This Blog is targeted towards Developers! We will be going through a detailed step by step process of writing a JMailAlerts Plugin. Extending JMailAlerts needs you to create special plugins of the type 'emailalerts' Before we Proceed: Replace your new plugin name “myplugin” The code required adding a custom xml parameter is skipped A. File St...

I was surfing the web and stumbled upon an article saying,  85% of world's population shops online. Really?!? This made me think that if you own (or want to start) an online shopping portal it needs to be user friendly and at the same time easy for the Store owner as well. With Quick2Cart 2.5 we’re introducing some cool new features which make...

While chalking out the roadmap for JGive 1.8 we had come up with a lot of features which were highly on demand. However, the list was large and development of all those features together would’ve been time consuming. So, taking our key job of getting you timely and quick releases into consideration, we decided to split our roadmap into two parts an...

A must have for all Joomla based Social Networks. People suggest helps with friend suggestions. Some of its fantastic features include profile based suggestions, Match Making support and more! Bugs Fixed - #64745 Fronted - Recommend friends popup not working with JomSocial 4.x- #64743 Fronted - Sql errors seen while fetching suggestions when some c...

JBolo a premium chat extension for Joomla gets new bug fix update. JBolo has many awesome features like  Group chat, User Blocking, Chat opt out and many more! Bugs Fixed! - #64637 No timestamp shown for sent messages until page is refreshed- #64636 Error playing sound for new messages- #64634 Mark messages sent via chat as 'read' in JomSocial...

It has been a while since the release of our last major version of Quick2Cart 2.4 release and we have got some really cool stuff coming in the next version. Received a lot of feature requests from you guys. We were unable to get all of them in this version. However, we've managed to sqeeze in some of them.  Create your very own fashion store w...

Christmas is just a stone's throw away. Techjoomla is all lit up with fancy lights, christmas bells and an amazing Christmas Tree right at the entrance. We all are excited, giving away gifts and having fun. On this wonderful occasion we’re getting you some amazing deals. FLAT 25% OFF on all our extensions! Use Code: XMASNWYR25 EFFECTIVE 30-35% OFF ...