Looking for the best SEO plugin for WordPress website? Don’t miss this blog today! Why should you use SEO Plugin For WordPress? WordPress is one of the best SEO friendly CMS. However, there are hundreds of SEO plugins available to improve and increase overall visibility of your WordPress website, so it is quite difficult to […]
Setting up XAMPP on your Windows machine is by far no easy feat, let us help you! But once it’s installed, it’s a breeze to run and will save you a bunch of time if you need to run WordPress or Joomla locally. The great thing about running a localhost install is that your test site […]
Quickstart installation with dummy data like demo (only available in PROs version) * With PRO versions, you can download Quickstart package which contains sample data like our demo site, access all template features. So, you just replace demo content with your content to save development time. After buying PRO version, you can log in to […]
Do you want to know How To Add Social Icons For Helix Framework? Then check this tutorial to do it easily! In this article, we will make an example with VK social network and ET Tea – Responsive Tea Company Joomla Template. Let’s check now! Step 1. Add more social field for Helix III framework […]
Have you ever heard of “Multilingual Associations” yet? This is a new feature in Joomla 3.7 which allows you to edit all your translations in a single interface instead of doing it individually as before. In this post, we will show you how to use Multilingual Associations feature. Let’s check now! We assume that your […]
What is multilingual website? A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Joomla! 3.x allows you to configure a website with more than 60 available languages. Do you want to know Create Multilingual Website For Joomla 3.x? Check this tutorial to do it easily! Step 1: Intall additional languages […]
As we all knew, Joomla just released the new Joomla 3.8.1 (see our Joomla 3.8 templates) over a week ago and they are now intending to have a plan for the next big upgrade to version 4. Joomla 4 is almost got into shape with a brand new look and many features. Are you excited? […]
The robots.txt is a file containing information about which folders should be crawled and which should not by search engine bots. The default robots.txt file provided by joomla assumes that all CSS and js files are in the media folder, which is not the case of a lot of Joomla extensions (modules, components, plugins) and […]
Before do that, you need to check some things: – Make sure Joomla 2.5.x multilanguage setup is correct. http://help.joomla.org/files/EN-GB_multilang_tutorial.pdf – Go to ‘Extensions’ – ‘Module Manager’ – switch from ‘site’ to ‘administrator’ in the filter dropdown list and publish Multilanguage Status. Then click on Multilanguage Status in the upper right menu line. If everything is […]
VirtueMart 2 allows you to translate many form fields by adding a language key. This is for all fields. We have an example: In a multilingual shop, you want to translate the gender-specific salutation (title) in the dropdown selection available in shopper forms. Take a look on this screenshot: Go to VMÂ Configuration > Shopper Fields […]
PHP has a quite normal coding syntax and can be read quite easily. This tutorial focusses on coding format and technics of the VirtueMart code. PHP is space insensitive like html. A ; ends a line. The = sets a value to a variable. The () indicate a function call, the content of functions is […]
VirtueMart 3 supports reloading of the productdetails by an ajax call. It means we have to trigger existing JS and add new JS, and it must be triggered like if the page just got ready. The joomla method to add JavaScript is in this case not sufficient. The scripts are added to the header of […]
Within Joomla plugins, there are manifest files that have the name <extension_name>.xml . They contain general information about the installation and parameters for the configuration of the plugin itself. In VirtueMart, those configuration parameters are used inside the component itself when creating a payment, shipment or a custom field. Since VirtueMart 3, you can hide […]
Templating and layouts In VM3 we introduce a new feature ShopFunctionsF::renderVmSubLayout($layoutName,AssocArray) you can call with it very easy small sublayouts, or minilayouts. They are stored in FE/sublayouts and can be overriden using /templates/yourtemplate/html/com_virtuemart/sublayouts. The main differences are in the cart layout. There is a new feature which allows you to display shopperfields in the cart. […]
VirtueMart Source Code VirtueMart manages its own SVN repository on the dev.virtuemart.net SVN Server. So it allows you to check out the latest source code! In order to obtain the Sources anonymously (read only) you need to know: SVN URL: https://dev.virtuemart.net/svn/virtuemart User: anonymous (no password required) This is the SVN command that fetches the repository […]
Extension plugins are used both in the front-end and the backend. They should be created as classes deriving from the base class  VmExtendedPlugin: public function __construct (&$subject, $config=array()) { parent::__construct($subject, $config); $this->_path = JPATH_PLUGINS.DS.$this->getName(); JPlugin::loadLanguage(‘plg_vmextended_’.$this->getName()); } List with events and a description on what moment they are fired. onVmAdminController() This event is fired, when the […]
If you start developing for the project or just with VirtueMart you can set up a development environment with an IDE and a SVN program. We recommend you to use two programs below for working with VirtueMart and synchronizing the working directory with the local SVN repository: SmartSVN or TortoiseSVN http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html Eclipse for php or […]
From version 2.6.10, VirtueMart has a new features that allows payment to have their own template layout. It’s useful for payments like Pay With Amazon which has a complete checkout process running in parallel to the normal checkout process. The template from 3rd party developer may not include this new functionnality. So, how to adjust […]
Most shop owners need to customize some of displayed text in the frontend or to the shop administrator in the backend to fit individual requirements. VirtueMart uses the same system as Joomla. All text strings are stored in language text files with .ini as the filename extension. Ex: the primary english language file for text […]
Most VirtueMart 2 users want to change the styles and layouts as defined in the default vmsite-ltr.css. You should create an override file, to which you can apply all desired changes. The file should be copied into your Joomla template’s css folder. Ex: yourdomain\templates\yourtemplate\css\vmsite-ltr.css After doing this, the image paths for some VirtueMart images and […]
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