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The JXtended team is proud to announce the availability of Finder 2.0 Beta, the newest release of our Advanced Search system for Joomla 1.5.
Finder is a powerful search engine that gives you access to technology used by major search engines like Google™ and Yahoo!™. Finder 2.0 features a completely redesigned core engine for better search results, AJAX powered search suggestions based on the actual content of your site, an expanding selection of search plugins, and much more.
This version now includes the ability to reset comments and ratings on content threads.
We received an email from a customer recently that reminded us of a core Joomla value. Whilst it's nice to have the fanfare of opening high profile public Web sites on software you helped write, Joomla's main edge has been it's ability to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. The following story epitomizes this paradigm.
JXtended Catalog was one of the first truly flexible content systems (typically called CCKs nowadays) available for Joomla 1.5. It was first developed in 2006 and released for sale in 2007 as one of the first commercial GPL products available for Joomla. It filled a wide gap in the Joomla extensions market for a directory that supported searchable custom fields, a full depth category tree and also the ability to map items to multiple categories.
JXtended's Louis Landry has been selected as Joomla's Most Valued Person in the Packt 2009 Open Source CMS Most Valued People awards, and deservedly so. Louis has contributed to many aspects of the Joomla project and is currently one of the coordinators responsible for overseeing development of the software.
The staff at JXtended wish to congratulate Louis on his well deserved achievement. Well done!
The future of search technology for Joomla 1.5 is here. The JXtended team is proud to announce the availability of Finder 2.0 Alpha, a preview release of the new Finder 2.0 Advanced Search system for Joomla 1.5.
Finder is a powerful search engine that gives you access to technology used by major search engines like Google™ and Yahoo!™. Finder 2.0 features a completely redesigned core engine for better search results, AJAX powered search suggestions based on the actual content of your site, an expanding selection of search plugins, and much more.
We've just added tutorials that explain how to integrate JXtended Comments, Ratings and Social-Bookmarking to RokDownloads and Virtuemart. Check them out on the following pages:
- Comments for RokDownloads
- Comments for Virtuemart
JXtended Comments forms the basis for supporting social interactions in Joomla 1.6. .
Advanced search for VirtueMart products has arrived! JXtended Finder 1.1.1 for Joomla!™ adds support for indexing and searching VirtueMart products. One of the most important things any e-commerce site can have to increase sales is a robust search so customers can find exactly what they are looking for. You can let your customers search the products in your VirtueMart store and filter those results on category or manufacturer with the latest version of JXtended Finder for Joomla!
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The latest version of JXtended Labels for Joomla!™ has several new features to improve your Web site. A new related content module makes associating content as simple as labeling it with the same label. You can now configure the ordering for content when viewing a label page whichever way makes most sense for your site. Also, feeds can now be generated for label pages so that you can syndicate your labeled content to the world. These exiting new features and much more are available immediately with JXtended Labels 1.0.1 for Joomla!
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This version now includes over 50 links to social bookmarking sites, pings, trackbacks and other new features and bug fixes.