Comments

This version now includes the ability to reset comments and ratings on content threads.

This version now includes over 50 links to social bookmarking sites, pings, trackbacks and other new features and bug fixes.

This version now includes 50 of the most popular social bookmarking sites as well as other new features and bug fixes.

Following from the release of the new JXtended site, the demo site has also been updated and expanded with the latest version of all our commercial products.

The demo site includes complete example installs of three essential extensions for all Joomla Web sites:

• Comments - visitor and user commenting, content rating and social bookmark links;
• Finder - advanced and accurate searching for Joomla Web site; and
• Labels - labels/tags for your content that integrates directly with the administrator article edit page.

Each of these extensions is easy to install and configure in minutes.

For your projects that need a little bit more horsepower, example installs of our content management extensions are also available:

• Catalog - perfect for directory sites; and
• Magazine - to suit sites that mimic printed magazine-style, publication based Web sites.

Administrator access is available to give you a feel for how all these extensions can lift what you can offer on your Joomla Web site.

To find out more, visit the JXtended extensions page.

The JXtended team is pleased to announce that Comments 1.2.1 Beta 1 has been packaged and is available for immediate download for existing subscribers. This release features a number of key improvements and new features.

• 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 twitter as an option to sharing

Comments is a 3-in-1 package including article comments, rating and sharing options and is a bargain at only US$30 (including updates and support for 12 months). As previously announced, JXtended Comments will be donated to the version 1.6 release of Joomla.

The JXtended Team - Rob Schley, Louis Landry and Andrew Eddie - is currently in Australia, having met with the other Joomla Development Coordinators for the first ever Joomla Development Summit - a grueling four days of whiteboard planning and coding.  We are very excited to announce that we are donating a number of JXtended technologies to the Joomla 1.6 source.

Comments

We are donating our Comments extension to Joomla 1.6.  We feel very strongly that this move, along with access control improvements, will put Joomla in better standing with other Content Management Systems.  We will still be releasing and supporting the commercial version for Joomla 1.5 but will be providing an upgrade path to Joomla 1.6.  Comments for Joomla 1.6 will go into the core just prior to the first public beta release.  Choosing JXtended Comments now gives you the smoothest transition into Joomla 1.6.

As used on community.joomla.org, the latest version of JXtended Comments has been released for Joomla 1.5.  This version includes many new and improved features including:

• Cleaner, more efficient Comment Moderation screen.
• RSS feed support for latest comments.
• New Comments Summary module for the Joomla Administrator Control Panel.
• New smilies and a new smiley palette.
• New stars with 6 color options (PSD's included).
• New Latest Comments module with RSS feed support.
• New Most Commented module.
• New Highest Rated module.
• New, more reliable BB code parser.
• The ability to hide/show user web site and subject fields in the comment form.
• The ability to hide/show the comment form by default.
• Completely reworked CSS styles that should result in fewer conflicts and issues.
• More reliable identification of the page that a comment is attached to.
• Support for degraded Comment and Rating submissions. No longer requires JavaScript.
• Improved error handling for Comment and Rating submissions.

Comments is an AJAX driven comments, ratings and social bookmarking extension for Joomla 1.5.

For more information about purchasing a subscription to Comments or who is using Comments, see the Comments Product Information page.

Techinfocenter is a research and marketing firm specializing in Electronic Content Management (ECM).  They offer free research and product/software reviews and analysis pertaining to the ECM industry.  We caught up with Jim Madden about how JXtended helped empower their web site.

We are pleased to release JXtended Comments 1.1.1 Stable for Joomla! 1.5.

This release features fixes for several outstanding issues including:

• Wrong comment count being displayed.
• No comments being displayed.
• No error messages being displayed.

Comments is an AJAX driven comments, ratings and social bookmarking extension for Joomla! 1.5.

For more information about purchasing a subscription to Comments or who is using Comments, see the Comment Product Information page.

We are pleased to announce the release of Comments 1.1.0 Stable.

There are several exciting new features in this version:

• New ability to Import/Export the component configuration.
• New support for Gravatar avatars.
• New ability to allow HTML in comment posts.
• New ability to support simple BBCode in comment posts.
• New ability to have comment pagination enabled.
• New ability to set the display order of comments to oldest first or newest first.
• Code Syntax Highlighting via a new unobtrusive javascript library. Simply place the code inside a <pre lang="{LANGUAGE}"> tag or BBCode code tag for the highlighter to pick it up.

Comments is an AJAX driven comments, ratings and social bookmarking extension for Joomla! 1.5.

For more information about purchasing a subscription to Comments or who is using Comments, see the Comment Product Information page.