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Custom Fields Radius Search Plugin

https://www.netzsinn.de/netzsinn-custom-fields-radius-search

WootsUP

https://wootsup.com/ - see our June session

YOOforged

https://yooforged.com/ to create Layouts but also now to translate https://yooforged.com/features/yootheme-translate/

regex for default image

Do you have to have a Default image in your Grids or other Elements ? Simply use this regex! Search : /^$/ Replace : images/assets/default_card.jpg

Switch between Dark Mode and Light Mode

Do you want to have a switch between Light Mode & Dark Mode on your website ? See yoocccdarkmode : https://coolcat-campus.com/extensions/yootheme-ccc-darkmode

&display=swap for Google Fonts

If Google PageSpeed / Lighthouse mentions "&display=swap for Google Fonts", how to set this up in YOOtheme ? Go to YOOtheme Style Panel, under Google Fonts, add the value after the last number…

Getting the Menu Item Title in an Element (or almost)

To get the Menu Item Title, can use as proxy Global > Site > Page Title (which is the same unless the Browser Page Title field is filled in in the corresponding Menu Item) (but what is you…

Example of website using many features of YTP5

I have just released this YTP5 multilingual website for a Jazz Club in Brussels (Belgium). https://www.themusicvillage.com/en The Template is based on Circle. I use several very useful features of…

New source in ZOOlanders Essentials 3

There is new source in ZOOlanders Essentials 3 which is very interesting : Joomla API, meaning that you can use an external Joomla website as source within your current website...

What is Session expires before you could Save

If session ends, just open new Tab in browser, login and then you can come back and click on Save

Save Layout for Mega Menu and Sublayouts

In Mega Menus and Sublayouts there is no Section so I had always believed that there was no way to Save the layout. But actually one can directly use the Library button!

Favicon seen by browser but not by Google

See https://yootheme.com/support/question/172949

YTP5 Cookie Consent Manager

Tutorial: How to Change Texts in the YOOtheme Pro 5 Consent Manager https://yootheme.com/support/question/172593 : solution for Joomla + WP explained by Alex Revo + see the comments …

One unique YOOtheme Template for multilingual websites (Joomla)

Many times, when you have a multilingual website in Joomla, the only reason why you have to duplicate every YOOtheme Template... is that you want to manually translate a few words (like a title or a…

Hide the customizer bar

When you are on smaller screens sometimes the YOOtheme bar is in the way. But there is a solution! At the bottom of the sidebar there is a little button to hide it. Just click on it and the sidebar…

YOObox by ZOOlanders

YOObox by Zoolanders https://yoobox.io/ - example: /* ====================================== Layout: Truncate Content (Line Clamp) Limits text to a fixed number of lines …

Google Lighthouse > "Use efficient cache lifetimes"

If Google PageSpeed / Lighthouse mentions "use efficient cache lifetimes" then you can put the following in your .htaccess <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault…