JXtended Comments 1.2.1 Stable Released
This version now includes over 50 links to social bookmarking sites, pings, trackbacks and other new features and bug fixes.
JXtended Comments 1.2.1 Stable for Joomla is now available for subscribers to download. This version now includes over 50 of the most popular social bookmarking sites as well as other new features and bug fixes.
Please note that this is the version requires Joomla 1.5.10 or later and is the last PHP 4.x compatible version of Comments. All versions released after this will required PHP 5.2 or later.
All subscribers are advised to upgrade.
Following is the complete changelog for this version compared with 1.2.0 stable.
- Added support for Moovur for spam detection.
- Added ability to ping Google Blog Search for new posts.
- Added trackback support.
- Added ability to turn off email to friend in sharing module.
- Added dozens of new sharing sites.
- Added filter to the Administrator comments list to browse by context (source of comments).
- Increased the size of the Administrator comments options window.
- Fixed bug: Installation would not correctly report some errors.
- Fixed bug: Fatal error when JXtended Libraries not installed.
- Fixed bug: 1.2.0 upgrade process would just fail where orphaned comments (from deleted context object).
- Fixed bug: JHtml include path problem in sharing module.
- Fixed bug: Comments and ratings not behaving correctly with caching enabled.
- Fixed bug: User name / full name option not being respected in some modules and feeds.
- Fixed bug: Ajax comment response not obeying template override.
- Fixed bug: 404 errors experienced by search engines.
- Fixed bug: 1.2.0 beta1 upgrade would leave ratings table without a primary key.
- Fixed bug: Fixed bug where search engine bots could increment ratings.
Comments now allows you to push your Joomla articles to over 50 social bookmark sites:
Blinklist, Blogmarks, Cannotea, Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Diigo, DotNetKicks, DZone, Facebook, Fark, Faves, Fleck, Friendfeed, Friendsite, Furl, Google Bookmarks, Kaboodle, Kirtsy, Hacker News, Hyves, Identica, Jij, Linkedin, Magnolia, Maple, Mister Wong, Myspace, Netvibes, Netvouz, Newsvine, Ping, Plugim, Posterous, Propellor, reddit, Shoutwire, Simpy, Slashdot, Spurl, Squidoo, Stumble Upon, Tailrank, Technorati, Tipd, Thisnext, Twitter, Webride, Wists, Yahoo Bookmarks, Yahoo My Web, Yahoo Buzz
Been a JX Comments user for a long time now. Not sure what trackbacks are, but one suggestion that would make this component even better is email notifications to people who have already commented of when others have commented on the same article.
Great Extension, however, we are having a problem with search engines showing the ratings links as errors in our webmaster tools.
Basically when google crawls the site, it sees the ratings as links and when it goes to those links it is producing an error for every rating star. Basically 5 errors for every article with the ratings enabled. All these errors are hurting our seo.
Any ideas or fixes would be great. Thanks.