We build sites that owners can use, edit, and change themselves (if they want to) so not all of these sites may appear as they did when we delivered them!
Pro Extensions We Use
Here is a list of some of the Pro Joomla Extensions we have licenses to use in our projects and maintain on the sites of our clients. If one of your favourites is missing, let us know. It may just be that we haven't updated our list yet.
4SEO
4SEO is a handy Search Engine Optimization extension that helps with broken links, redirect rules, and custom error pages.
AcyMailing
AcyMailing is a newsletter plugin that automates the process of sending out emails to your audience.
Akeeba Backup
Akeeba Backup is the #1 most popular Joomla Extension, with "[a] single goal: backup, restore and transfer your site in a snap!"
Convert Forms
We think Convert Forms is the most user friendly and feature-rich form maker for Joomla. Tassos, the Convert Forms developer, provided an overview of it on our channel:
Drop Files
Drop Files is an amazing file management tool for Joomla. It even syncs with major cloud accounts such as DropBox, GDrive, and OneDrive!
Elfsight
Elfsight offers many widgets that can be implemented to websites, including customer reviews (Google, Yelp, etc.), social media feeds (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.), and chat services.
EngageBox
Created by the same developer behind ConvertForms, EngageBox is another one of Tassos' convenient extensions to create interactive pop-up prompts for Joomla sites. With a plethora of customization options and adjustable conditions for scrolling, hovering, and even detecting AdBlock—these pop-ups are great for engaging visitors!
HikaShop
We think that HikaShop is a convenient e-commerce tool for managing products, orders, sales, and everything else in setting up an online store.
Fun fact: The "Hika" part of HikaShop is named after hikaru (光), the Japanese word for light (in the sense of a gleam, shine, sparkle, etc.)
JCE Editor
JCE Editor replaces the standard WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor on Joomla and adds customizable features that greatly improve the user experience and overall convenience of editing content.
Joomdle
Joomdle combines the functionality of Moodle courses with Joomla's interface and seamlessly connects the two! For those whose busineses revolve around learning and education, Joomdle is the extension for you!
JoomlaCK
JoomlaCK is run by the developer Cédric Keiflin and offers extensions primarily relevant to creating pages on Joomla websites. Whether it be building templates, pages, or adding interactive menus, JoomlaCK has it all!
We have a pro license for all JoomlaCK extensions, but here are some of our favourites:
Maximenu CK is a flexible and robust tool to create custom menus for any website.
Mobile Menu CK allows us to create custom-styled menus for any site's mobile resolution.
Page Builder CK and Template Creator CK—click below to find out!
Page Builder CK
Page Builder CK is self-explanatory: this extension facilitates creating custom pages with a wide variety of styling through animated text, accordions, and images, among many others. The versatility of Page Builder CK is beneficial as its interface can be used on articles, modules, and more!
Template Creator CK
Template Creator CK is a tool for creating your own Joomla templates with your custom layout and styles. It is compatible with Joomla 4 and the latest versions of Joomla 3.
ochJSsocials
ochJSsocials is an open source extension for adding social media icons that seamlessly blend in with your website. This plugin offers efficient functionality in redirecting visitors to your other social media without hindering the load time of your website.
RAXO
RAXO ensures that modules are presented in a visually aesthetic manner on websites, with different templates and customization options to choose from so that your content stands out in the best way possible!
Regular Labs
Regular Labs contains a wide variety of extensions that are convenient for managing any Joomla website—and fortunately, we have a pro license for all of their extensions!
We love everything that Regular Labs has to offer, but here are some of our favourites:
Cache Cleaner is a great extension that empties the cache of the backend of your website to ensure that changes are not visually hidden by the caching of older iterations of your site. This tool streamlines our workflow, for sure!
ReReplacer is a helpful search and replace tool that we often use to make quick and efficient changes to our database that would otherwise take ages to perform manually. Whether it be replacing key phrases in articles or adjusting formatting and other settings, ReReplacer is the perfect extension to streamline our workflow for more mundane fixes.
sh404SEF
sh404SEF is a tool that we often use to manage Search Engine Friendly URLs, add aliases, and redirect duplicate links accordingly.
StageIt
Want to make and preview changes to your website without making them live? StageIt can do just that! StageIt creates a staging environment for your website so that you can test and debug features on your site to ensure that everything works as intended before merging and publishing the changes for all to see.
For those of you who code, the best way to describe StageIt is creating a separate branch on GitHub—the staging site will not affect its live counterpart until the changes are synced.
Tired of maintaining your own Joomla site(s)? Take advantage of our Monthly Joomla Website Management package and let us do it for you!
Here's what you will get:
Uptime Monitoring
We monitor the uptime of every Joomla site we manage. If your hosting goes down we get an email notifying us and we look into it. If you wish, we can even have a copy of that notification sent to you to keep you in the loop too!
Weekly Site Audits
We are big fans of mySites.guru and use it to run a weekly audit of your website. The results of those audits give us insight in your Joomla site(s) and when we notice issues we will alert you to them and make recommendations to you, or even andjust or fix little things ourselves.
By far, our favourite weekly audit feature is the test for hacked files. If your site gets hacked, we are alerted right away and will let you know right away so we can discuss a plan to slam the door on hackers!
Version Monitoring and Updating
We will monitor your website for any and all available Joomla and extension updates and put them on your site when it's the right time. What do we mean by the right time?
The vast majority of times, the latest and greatest releases that come out are fine to install right away, but sometimes an issue slips by developers (and testers) and it breaks something when it hits wider distribution. We take part in (and monitor the pulse of) the Joomla community. If we learn of such a situation we will wait until we know it's safe to do updates.
Off-Server Backups
If you do not have a backup of your site in a location different than the server you are hosting it on, you are running the risk of loosing everything if your webhosting suffers a catastrophic incident.
We will install Akeeba Backup Pro on your website and schedule it to run at a frequency that makes sense for your particular website. Backups are transferred to a cloud storage solution (ie: DropBox, OneDrive, Gdrive, etc) to which you will have access to download to your computer.
Also, if an Akeeba Backup process fails to complete, we'll be notified and look into why that happened and what action needs to be taken.
Access to Pro Extensions
We have memberships to our favourite 3rd party extensions for Joomla. Because these are open source software we are allowed to install them on the sites of those who are subscribed to our Monthly Joomla Management Package.
We try to keep an up to date list of the pro version of extensions that we use here.
Joomla Training Cohort
There are many ways to do Joomla! In Cybersalt's Joomla Training Cohort you'll learn how to do Joomla the way we do it. Of course, we're happy to be paid to work on your site when and where you don't want to, but through the JTC you have the opportunity to learn how to develop your website to the full degree that you would like to yourself.
Joomla Talk Tuesdays Video Call
Joomla Talk Tuesdays is a weekly group video call for clients who are subscribed to our Monthly Joomla Management Package. It's a time to talk and ask questions about your Joomla sites in specific, Joomla in general, and generally about other topics and issues arising from having a website for your business, organization, or self.
Archives of recordings are available for playback for clients who are subscribed to our Monthly Joomla Management Package.
This monthly management package is only US$99 per month for the first site and US$49.50 for the second site. For more than 2 sites let's discuss what that would look like
If you require web hosting, or wish you had better web hosting, that may be able to be included with the above. Please let us know if you are interested in this option.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or any custom management needs you would like to discuss.