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27Mar2023

Troubleshoot missing styles and scripts (access permissions errors)

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First published October 13, 2015
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Any Simplify Your Web extension that has an output display

After installing any of the Simplify Your Web extensions (or after moving the site to a different server with different settings), some users may experience issues with the extension's HTML output. No matter the setup, the output does not look anything like any of the demos or screenshots that the user has seen...

Feelings of disappointment occur (it should work from the start, right?). What is really happening?

This tutorial will help you diagnose the issue (or confirm it) and guide you to help you fix it.

27Mar2023

Adding third party custom field support to Trombinoscope Contacts Pro

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First published August 13, 2020
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In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can add and use a third party custom field to better handle contact phone numbers. Trombinoscope Contacts Pro supports all standard custom fields out-of-the box and since version 4.2 you can also specify which third party fields you want to make available in your designs.

27Mar2023

Add your own information types in Latest News Enhanced Pro

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First published January 13, 2017
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It is possible to add custom information for each individual item in Latest News Enhanced Pro, on top of the detailed information you can already show.

In order to do that, we can take advantage of 2 of the hooks (events) available in the extension.

First, we need to be able to add the field type in the list of fields available for output and second, we need to set how the output will present itself for each item.

With this tutorial, you will be able to add:

  • a field type that can render an article or K2 item title,
  • a field type that outputs a link,
  • a field type that outputs the meta description of an article or K2 item, if available,
  • a field type that can query a database table for getting a specific value,
  • the Gravatar of the author (version for LNEP v4.6+ only).
  • New the length of a YouTube video when the head type is a YouTube video (version for LNEP v4.9+ only).

27Mar2023

Add your own information types in Article Details Profiles

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First published May 30, 2020
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It is possible to add custom information for each individual article in Article Details Profiles, on top of the detailed information you can already show.

In order to do that, we can take advantage of 2 events that are available in the extension.

First, we need to be able to add the field type in the list of fields available for output and second, we need to set how the output will present itself for each article.

With this tutorial, you will be able to add:

  • a field type that outputs a link.

27Mar2023

Add your own information types in Trombinoscope Contacts Pro

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First published July 05, 2020
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It is possible to add custom information for each individual contact in Trombinoscope Contacts Pro, in addition to the information fields you can already select.

To achieve this, we take advantage of 3 events that are built in the extension.

With this tutorial, you will be able to add a new field type following the examples available in the sample plugin 'My Fields', which includes:

  • a field type that outputs a link,
  • a field type that outputs addresses on one line only,
  • a field type that outputs a list of custom fields values of Text type,
  • a field type that outputs values of a repeatable custom field made of text fields,
  • a field type that outputs the last 3 articles created by a contact.

26Mar2023

Use a Latest News Enhanced Pro blog view as feed for another website

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First published February 26, 2021
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In this tutorial, learn how you can create a feed from a Latest News Enhanced Pro blog view and use that feed on another website with core Joomla or the Newsfeeds plugin for Latest News Enhanced Pro.

26Mar2023

Enable third-party custom fields in Latest News Enhanced Pro

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First published January 21, 2019
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It is possible to show a lot of information alongside articles when creating blogs or module instances with Latest News Enhanced Pro for Joomla. An exhaustive list of the Joomla core custom fields is supported out-of-the-box but you may want to use data that was made available by third-party custom fields.

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can extend Latest News Enhanced Pro with the must-have custom fields created by Tassos (tassos.gr).

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This set of articles have been created in order to increase people's awareness about the Simplify Your Web products.
It is aiming to show how those products can be used and point out not-so-well-known functionality.