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Have you ever search for best Joomla CCK that allows you to create Joomla custom fields within Joomla core articles? I know you find a lot, but failed to find a suitable advance custom field for Joomla. To provide ultimate flexibility and empower to create unlimited category specific or standalone custom field in Joomla articles, We, at ThemeXpert HQ has cooked a powerful Joomla extension called Xpert Custom Fields (XCF).##Why we developed the Joomla CCK extension called Xpert Custom Field (XCF) ?Glad you asked. We regularly help Joomla developers to accomplish their projects perfectly. The thing we find common that developers are found spending extra hours to add Joomla custom fields support to satisfy their clients requirement. To kick away all above limitation, we developed this advanced custom field extension. The extension allows you to create vast array of custom fields including multiple field types without touching single line of code.Features- Joomla Article Support + More coming- Unlimited Fields Group- Customized Rules for each group- Joomla Event support- 7 Fields + More coming- Shortcode Plugin to access the field data inside article- Intuitive API for developer- Category specify and standalone field support- Multiple event support

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Another button called Custom Fields added adjacent to editor bottom.Get into

section and insert the data according to their type. For demonstration we added field to take image input.After adding all further necessary data, click save and close. Head to the article single view in frontend. As the follow image indicates, Advance custom field is working great in my end.###Step 04: Show field data using ShortcodesYou may not want to show your custom field data according to the event provided. Because Joomla provides only 3 events, allow to present your custom data

Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends around Joomla community. Either its a shopping or social festival, ThemeXpert team loves to stay in the front and comes with bag full of deals, discount and coupon each time so that you guys enjoy the crazy moment happily. In this year to celebrate Black Friday & Cyber Monday we have been appeared a bit earlier than usual. Do you know why? We want you to save your money so that you can spend them for some other important purposes throughout the year.

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WordPress website security is the single and most prioritized concern, that keeps every webmaster and website owner zoned out scanning for security flaws in their website. To keep their websites away from unexpected hacking, some site owners appoint ethical hacker and some develop custom CMS. But both solutions are costlier, simultaneously time consuming, but above all risk remain unchanged.

There is nothing worth exciting when you're sales wheel keeps moving in a handsome pace. Your sales ratio is constantly breaking all previous record and hitting all goal set month after month. But forgot to add, your revenue is still defeating your expectation. even sometimes it touches the ground. The strategy and tactics were effective for the previous years but not adding new number to the revenue figure.

If your marketing pitches and techniques have really become outdated to the current trend, and your competitor publishing case study leave your frustrated a lot. It’s high time to rethink the way you do sell. To comprehend the sales boost up tectics, I personally found many entrepreneurs declared unredeemed rewards on the fulfillment of the ambition set. and other hire new head to strengthen sales team. Combining all the strength, when sales statistics always kisses the surface wall, the situation really becomes alarming.

Whether you are running your personal blog or a enterprise level of Joomla eCommerce store , your heartiest exception sticks with highest pick of traf...

Whether you are running your personal blog or a enterprise level of Joomla eCommerce store, your heartiest exception sticks with highest pick of traffic and record breaking conversion, right?To turn your dream into reality, there are plenty of technical aspects need to kick in along fresh and professional site contents. Without going to describe them all mediocrely, I am going to share proven tactics to speed up and optimize Joomla website, which is considered one of the most significant ranking factors according to Google. Why speed is important?Several studies shows that fast loading websites can significantly increase conversion and boost in sales. A couple of years ago, Walmart announced that their conversions touch the peak when site loads within 2 seconds, and it progressively drops as page loading time increases. In the following chart, you can notice how overall conversion and sales fluctuate when site speed falls from 0-1 to 3-4 seconds.Another study by Kissmetrics shows that 40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load. I know having read those real life example, you guys want your Joomla website should be loaded fast. For your convenience, I’m going to share some useful tips and tricks of Joomla speed optimization.Before digging into the in-depth instructions, I recommend you to check Joomla performance or how fast your Joomla site currently loads. To check site loading speed, there are numerous tools available in the market. I have created a list of trusted by millions because the tools not only can measure site speed and overall performance, but also provides details reason that make a website slow.- Google Pagespeed Insights (including mobile performance)- Yslow (browser extension for Firefox and Chrome)- Pingdom Tools GT-Metrix showing results from both Pagespeed and Yslow)- Webpagetest.orgNow you have clear understanding of your overall site performance and loading time. Before going to follow my instructions, take a complete backup of your Joomla website, then make step by step enhancement. After completion of every step, get back to the site front-end, and make sure every part of your website functioning accordingly.##Choose a reliable Web HostTaking right decision while selecting best Joomla hosting is considered the key for speed up Joomla website. Thinking why? The files of your website are virtually hosted on a remote server. When a end user hits for your site URL in the browser address bar, and If it takes time to retrieve data from server to your end clients, definitely your site loading time is going to be increased and your are going to lose a significant amount of traffic. So what would be the best solution? To cover the question, we prepared a wonderful guide to select best Joomla hosting. I would be your find them amazing, enjoy the reading.##Use updated Joomla and its extensionsLatest technologies includes new opportunity to keep your websites away from numerous limitations of past and add finest smoothness in the overall site performance. Whereas Joomla is growing everyday for open-source contribution, so the consequence presents us the frequent update of Joomla with possibilities of site speed, because each updated version comes with multiple code improvements. Same happens for 3rd party plugins, keep them updated to consolidated with your need.##Use must-have and remove unused extensionsThe plugin based model for feature extension sometime loads unnecessary features and bloated codes in maximum CMS. Nothing different for Joomla. With several years of Joomla template development, I used many of tremendous Joomla extensions comes with awesome features.But your site may required to use single features, but other remain unused and become reason for poor site speed and conflict. So, remove the unnecessary plugins and install lightweight and need specific Joomla extensions.##Enable Joomla CachingWhen you look for a website or its content in the browser, Browser sends request to the server to serve requested contents back. If you are using Joomla website, on the every page load or request browser retrieves associated plugins, components, modules, images and other more. It’s really a weightlifting work for site database. Suppose you have a website visited by 1000 visitors at a time, I bet your site loading get down to 5 to 10 seconds. What’s the solution to comprehend this issue?The answer is - enable joomla caching. Caching allows to present pre-generated contents to the end users without annoying server all the time and speed up Joomla site of yours. In a cache enabled websites a saved “view” is offer to browser. If any content is changed or updated by site owners, users momentarily get older version of cached information, but after a defined interval, cache version gets update automatically. Want to enable Joomla caching, just follow the beneath tutorialTo enable the Joomla caching, first head the System from Global Configuration, select ON - Conservative caching option from cache dropdown field, and select Save button. Have a look in the following image. To ensure Joomla caching system starts working correctly, you have to check whether core Joomla 3 plugin System - Cache is published or not. To check status of the plugin, head to the Plugin Manager from Extensions menu. search for System - Cache. If the plugin is enabled that would great, but not publish it on your own. Have a look in the following image.Congratulation, Now Joomla caching system is running successfully.##Enable Gzip CompressionGzip is the popular tool for file compression. It lessen the file size and helps to shrink server response time.Yahoo says “Gzip is the most popular and effective compression method currently available and generally reduces the response size by about 70%. Approximately 90% of today's Internet traffic travels through browsers that claim to support gzip,"To enable Gzip in Joomla! CMS, head over to Global configuration > server and click on option 'Yes' for Gzip compression.##Leverage speed using CDNContent delivery network (CDN) is an incredibly simple way to supercharge your Joomla site and Joomla performance. A CDN is an interconnected system of cache servers that use geographical proximity as a criteria for delivering Web content. If you enable a Content Delivery Network, your static files will not be served from the location of your web host, but from the global network of servers of your CDN provider.In a CDN, multiple copy of your web contents strategically exists on disseminating servers, allow you to serve the same content to many requesting clients computing devices with high availability and high performance - even when bandwidth is limited or there are sudden spikes in demand. CDNs are especially well suited for delivering web objects (text, graphics and scripts), downloadable objects (media files, software, documents), applications (e-commerce, portals), live streaming media, on-demand streaming media, and social networks.If you want to know which CDN provider is best suited for your Joomla website, read this detailed guide. ##Optimize ImagesImages Put a serious value on your website. You cannot deny the role of images on your website. Images increase the load of your page, and it needs more bandwidth than the rest of the elements of your webpage. To ensure fast loading of webpages, you must optimize images of your website.There might be a question on your mind “If I reduce the image size, will it affect the quality?” Actually, there are a lot of tools available on the web, and you can use tinypng, remush.it, PunyPNG, etc. These tools will optimize your images losslessly, and there will be no compromise with the quality of your image.But if you think the time is more important, than you can use Quix optimize. It lets you optimize all images in one click, that too, without leaving your editor screen. If the size is not perfect, change display width size and quality. Now reoptimizing will give you the exact image that you wanted. In this way, you can optimize your images for any devices such as - Large desktop, desktop, tablet, mobile, mini screen. Besides, the size will be optimized at a perfect rate, and you will be able to generate a lossless webp format of your image. ##Minify HTML, CSS & JSA Joomla Website loads its contents and it also loads CSS, JS files which may slow down the whole loading process. CSS & JS files takes a lot of time for rendering and executing. This issue can be easily resolved by:- Compressing CSS, JS files- Merging Several files into one. If you do not know how to do it, you can do it by using extensions like JCH Optimize, JBetolo, ScriptMerge from Joomla extension directory. JCH Optimize extension also allows several functions for Joomla speed optimization.##Mobile Optimization for Joomla Website50% of web traffic comes from mobile and tablets. If you do not want to lose half of your traffic, it is necessary to optimize your mobile pages too. You can take Mobile-Friendly test from google to check mobile friendliness of your site. If you get a really poor score consider optimizing it. If you do not know waht to optimize, you can use the PageSpeed insights Tool by google. ##Turn off leeching and hotlinking of your contentHotlinking increases server load and makes your website slow. It means stealing your bandwidth and it occurs when any other sites uses direct link to the images on your site. So for turning off leeching and hotlinking of your content put the below code on your root .htaccess file:> disable hotlinking of images with forbidden or custom image option> RewriteEngine on> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www.)?sparringmind.com [NC]> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www.)?google.com [NC]> RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www.)?feeds2.feedxpert.com/sparringmind [NC]> RewriteRule .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ – [NC,F,L]At here I have given my feed (from Feedxpert). You have to replace it with your feed’s name or else your images might not appear correctly. ##Turn On LazyLoad to your imagesLazyload helps you to speed up your page loading process. It only loads the images above the fold load or those images which are visible to the browser window of the user. When the user scrolls down, the below images start to load before they appear on the window.This not only increases the page loading speed but also saves the bandwidth by loading less data for visitors who don’t scroll all the way down.You can do this automatically, just install plugin like LLFJ or JSLazyLoading from Joomla extension directory. Or you can use Quix to turn on lazyload and optimize your images wisely. It will take only a second to turn on lazy loading. Then images will be only loaded when a visitor scrolls down the page. ##Control amount of post revisionWhen you are done with your post and published it, why would you need the stored draft? There might be 8-9 or even more drafts saved. This drafts slow down your site and therefore you need to control your revisions. Set the revisions to 2 or 3 so that in case of any mistake, you can fall back.##Choose a dependable Page builderWhenever you hear the name of a page builder, the first thing on your mind comes is extra load on your server. But this is not true for all page builder. There are many page builders which put a massive load on your server, but Quix Joomla page builder is not like that. Instead of putting load, Quix helps you decrease the load with its awesome features like caching system, image optimization, lazy loading, etc. For building your pages quickly and making your system fast, you might have to depend on multiple extensions, but because of Quix, you don’t.If you like to try other page builders or other extensions, feel free to do that but keep speed in mind, and don’t forget to compare. I know that after the comparison, you will not find anything better than Quix.##SummarySpeed up Joomla websites is the key to boost up conversion and sales simultaneously. I’ve discussed only the techniques worked for me precisely. If you think, I missed any of them, let me know in the comment below, I will add your recommendation to the above tips.

Either you're using Joomla templates and WordPress themes, user generated Joomla comments and WordPress comments are important. It bears a testimony that your posted masterpiece is helping others tremendously. Visitors are found to and fro across the site to site to find out their desired contents.Before getting into your well-researched blog post, they try to find some significant traits which give them reason to read further or bounce. Now the question is what are those traits, right?In my opinion they are not so many, but the most important elements are - huge post views, social shares and positive comments. Among those, good comments are the most effective, it allures the dark horse to be well-acquaintance of your website. But what if your post comments are full of spamming? definitely you would lose significant number of constant traffic along with the following inconvenience.- Consume valuable time and labourWhen you’ve websites like ThemeXpert with tons of useful blog posts, You would constantly start receiving comments in your maximum viral posts. With the useful appreciation you found spammers are trying to spam in your comment. Consequently you have to spend time to keep them up-to-date frequently.- Can’t stop traffic getting stolenIf you couldn’t manage time to clean up your website from spammy comments, visitors will pipe through other website easily.- Endanger site from hackingEither you are running Joomla or WordPress websites, if you don’t turn on comment filtering for malicious code, hackers can hack your site putting malicious code via your site commenting system.- Increase site loading timeIf a website fails to load within 5 to 8 seconds, statistics show that visitors start hitting back button with waiting for site comes in. On top of that the continuation of bounce rate keeps increasing. In this circumstance, Google may penalize your site and demote your site with lower ranking.- Google is cracking down on bad linksGoogle always hates bad links, If you don’t manage time to moderate your site comment, Google think you’re allowing bad links into your website, the Google bot won’t care whether the link are attached in the commenting system or elsewhere.Now you might be thinking what would be ultimate solution to keep your site away from such an inconvenience, right? According to my experience I found default commenting system of popular CMS like WordPress and Joomla requires tons of configuration to make it safe from unexpected danger. Even in my whole career I found many of CMS power users find difficult to add spamming safety configuration, let alone the new comers. To comprehend this issue, we have to find component which will be ultimate solution package, allows automated settings enability by default.Now the question is which component provides all possibilities all together, the answer is simple, that is Disqus Joomla service. Look on the reason why I provoke to choose this awesome 3rd commenting system for your Joomla websites.- Fast and real time updateThe commenting system doesn’t affect your site speed. It loads separately from Disqus on your Joomla websites. If you’ve website with a tons traffic, you don’t need to reload your site to see the latest update of the most recent comments. Everything will be updated live within your single blink eyes.- Less spamming and securedCommenting with Disqus requires to login first, As a result only human can post comment, forget about the abusive behavior of dangerous bots.

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After waiting for a year long, the fourth consecutive Joomla World conference 2015 is going to be held in Bangalore, India from November 6th to 8th November. We are lucky several members of ThemeXpert team are heading for conference on 5th November. Don’t forget to say hello to the ThemeXpert guys and book your FREE Membership.

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When you are stepping for creating a new Joomla website, you have to consider a lot of factors before you kick in, like you have to choose an exquisitely crafted design, best hosting company to host your files and the most prioritized factors among the all choosing is to go for the right Joomla templates. This is most important decision that you cannot take lightly.

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We all want to save time and enhance our website developing experience. Besides we also want to complete our task in easiest way. In web development there is no other way to complete development easily except using Page builder. In WordPress, page builder is an optional plugin, which enables you to edit pages with enhanced drag and drop editor. With the help of it you can easily create your desired section without any coding knowledge and within shortest time. Where regular procedure would take 2x-4x longer time with more complexity. All the WordPress page builders available in the market are either free or premium. Free page builder offers all the functionalities required to easily develop your website. You can complete your website with free page builder but after a certain point you might feel the necessity of premium page builder.Premium page builder offers more functionality and features than a free page builder. Besides you get premium support with it, so if you ever stuck anywhere you can ask expert to sort it out. There is some unique features which allows you do more and explore your creativity. Without premium version you can't even think about it. Now you might be thinking which page builder to choose. Am I right? It doesn’t matter free or premium, if your desired page can be created with free version than why to choose premium? When you feel the need of premium version, only that time you should buy it. But what to consider? Well before purchasing a pagebuilder you should check for some specific criterias and these are:- Customizability- Features & Functionality- Support- User friendliness - Accessibility- Number of Elements.Well, we do not want to waste our time discovering products, so I am giving you a short list of some best page builders. ##OnePagerOnePager is the first one ‪‎page website builder for ‪‎WordPress boxed with all the modern and powerful technology to take your site developing experience to the next level. Where you can quickly create and edit your website on the fly without having prior programming and designing experience, forget about the site designing on Photoshop and transforming them into fussy codes. Sounds fancy, right?OnePager is packed with tons of design blocks ready with numerous variations which can be fit with any section of modern websites, no business niches matters. The things really matters that is your ultimate taste of exquisite block selection and place them with coherent sequence. Don't believe in your latent excellence? Have a look on OnePager powered WordPress themes which are being continuously developed by one page lovers. If you are really care about the community appreciation to add this might drag and drop website builder plugin in the daily list of WordPress toolset, OnePager is produced featured on ProductHunt and continuously download in handsome pace from the WordPress plugins directory.

Ecommerce is on the raise with the growing potentials of digital selling, Simultaneously the number of Joomla eCommerce extensions have overwhelmed th...