Tutorials
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. .
Finder is very easy to integrate with Google Analytics giving you useful information about what people are searching your Joomla Web site for.
Today was round 2 of our little Twitter experiment to see what would happen when we gave anyone and everyone the opportunity to ask Rob Schley, JXtended Developer, Development Working Group Coordinator and Open Source Matters Board Member, any question they could imagine. Be sure to follow JXtended and RobSchley on Twitter to catch the next opportunity to get your questions answered by a Joomla expert. Without further ado, onto the questions!
The standard Joomla site search is generally adequate for small sites, but does not scale well as the content of the site increases in volume. JXtended Finder has been produced to solve this problem. A common complaint is that the total number of matches is not made available. This means that for the same phrase, a competitor's site may show more matches than your Joomla site and this could influence their opinion of your credibility (and that's a big deal if you are selling something). Aside from that, most web-savvy users are familiar with how Google has set the standard for search results.
We started a little experiment on Twitter to see what would happen when we gave anyone and everyone the opportunity to ask Rob Schley, JXtended Developer, Development Working Group Coordinator and Open Source Matters Board Member, any question they could imagine. Be sure to follow JXtended and RobSchley on Twitter to catch the next opportunity to get your questions answered by a Joomla expert. Without further ado, onto the questions!
JXtended's own master architect, Louis Landry, will be hosting one of the best training classes you will ever attend if you are an up-and-coming Joomla developer. In conjuction with Joomla Day Las Vegas, on 3 April Louis will be running Joomla for Developers, a tutorial/workshop style half-day session that looks will give you a deeper appreciation for how to build Joomla extensions.
Those attending this training course will also receive a free 12-month subscription to The Art of Joomla Developer Reference which is maintained by Joomla master developer Andrew Eddie. This adds great value to the day.
And why not round the day off by also attending Anthony Ferrara's session on Using the Joomla Framework. This is be a great compliment to Louis's workshop by another of Joomla's top core developers.
Time is running out and the class is filling so hurry to sign up. Similar classes around the world have booked out and you don't want to miss being trained by the people that actually write the Joomla software.
It is a well known fact that Joomla lacks the ability to assign content to multiple categories. JXtended Labels has been developed to fill this gap, and it does it in a very slick and easy-to-use way. So let's begin by following how I'm adding Labels to one of my sites, The Art of Joomla (which, by the way, is a pretty cool site if you want to learn about Joomla development).
JXtended Labels is a commercial extension (GPL licensed) for Joomla and costs around US$40. That includes updates and forum support for 12 months and unlimited installs.
Advertising and informational banners are an integral part of most web sites but sometimes, despite your best efforts at trying to trick the Joomla Module Manager, sometimes they just will not display where you want them to. A customer of ours had the same problem - no combination of module assignments on menu items seemed to get the right banner on the right page. Fortunately for him the problem had already been solved in Joomla 1.5 with a feature called Banner Tagging.
I stumbled upon a post in the Joomla forums about speculation surrounding the mysterious origin of ID 62 for the default Joomla Super Administrator.
Fortunately, and many years ago, I pulled down all the historic downloads for Mambo (from which Joomla spooned, I mean spawned) and decided to look through them. The earliest version of Mambo I had was from 30 April 2001 being what I think was version 3.0.0. The install script for this version has the default user ID set to 1. This is the same for the next five versions but in verison 3.0.6, released around 27 July 2001 we see the first introduction of the now famous ID 62 for the Super Admin. Version 3.0.7, released in November 2001, and then the first of the 4.0 series, released a year later in November 2002, carred on the tradition (I joined the project in February of the following year).
Have you ever wished that you could just save a few bits of HTML that you use all the time, or even save some boiler-plate text that you use every time you do your job advertisements ... well, Toowoomba Regional Council had just that problem. We looked at this problem and found that we could empower three of our extensions to provide a solution.