I've installed Joomla 1.5.7. After that I installed sh404sef. Everything was fine.
Then I installed JoomFish, cause I need to use three or more languages.
The combination of these two plugins creates a fatal error and the whole site is not running anymore.
Whene I switches off the sh404sef plugin, the website was showing the public-site again.

In the forums of both plugins, I've read a lot of reviews and questions about this problem.
I hope, the creators of JoomFish and sh404sef will help eachother to fix this problem.
Cause I think both plugins should be deliverd in the Joomla-standard-installation.

I started with the beta version and just upgraged to RC1.
Works perfectly. Very easy to use.

Perfect companion for Joomla 1.5

A must have.

I love the logic in which such a complex component is made. I never really needed any tutorials to get it working. Now it even don't slow down your server and it has a fallbacklanguage option ...

Thanks guys!

I use Joom!Fish on three sites - one published in 6 languages, two more published in 10 languages. All sites are using Joomla 1.5.6 and Joom!Fish 2.0.

Not only does this tool allow translating of all our articles, we translate all menu names and many other elements required for the site including custom graphics and videos that change with the language.

I have a team of 26 people involved from many countries with a wide range of technical abilities. Joom!Fish lets me give them appropriate access to create and publish translated articles easily. If they can use a word processor they can create translated articles with Joom!Fish.

The support from the development team is fast and they don't stop until your problem is solved. Supporting the development of this product with the Gold Membership was the best investment I could make for my sites.

If you need to publish your Joomla site in more than one language, get Joom!Fish now. Remember, this is the world wide web.

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I've spent way too long trying to sort out a problem with an older (1.7) version of Joom!Fish on an older (1.0.13) version of Joomla. The problem was when I published the language selector to the front end, the site would be blank from the language selector onwards.

If the language selector was at the top of the page the whole page would be blank, if it was further down in the page, it would be blank from there. In the source, the code would just be blank from where the Joom!Fish langauge selector should appear.

Anyway, the fix for me was to change the permissions of the mambot/search and mambot/system and the files within to 755 or more open.

I always write pages in valid css2.1, but joom!fish disturbs it a little bit. To keep the site valid you have to delete one backslash in the mod_jflanguageselection.css, line 102. Otherwise everything works very well so far, some little bugs while deleting languages (error 500) but itīs ok for this version. keep goin`on.

Joom!Fish has been great on various sites I have done. It's amazing to be able to translate menu items and to be able to relate multiple-language versions of the same content item. In fact I am using that concept as the basis for some other in-house (non-Joomla) projects.

Some reviewers have mentioned that in multi-lingual sites it's important that for some languages you want different menu structures. I agree with that - for some sites I advise on we decide to have completely different menus for different languages, as they target different language audiences with different information. It can be a challenge to work out whether to use JoomFish to dynamically "translate" an existing menu, or just to make different articles in different languages, linked to from menu items in the relevant language.

Reviewers "mrs.marijke" and "visability" say they want to be able to hide menu items in some languages. Well one way to do this is with the MetaMod extension, which you can use to present an entirely different menu in a module position, depending on the selected front-end language. There's a comment on the MetaMod page on extensions.joomla.org with the setup required to do that (pretty trivial). Now admittedly that means setting up a completely parallel menu structure for each language - it's not just hiding or showing particular menu items. But it does provide flexibility in what you want to show for any given language. [Note - obviously this approach only works if your menus are in modules, and not hard-coded into your template, as many of the RocketTheme templates are].

In conclusion, I would say that Joom!Fish is an excellent but not the only way to approach translation of a web site. If you want to present pretty much identical information and site structure to different language audiences then it's ideal. If the information is to be different for different language audiences then you may need to be more creative, perhaps combining Joom!Fish with MetaMod to display different menus for different languages, or just making different pages in different languages.

Works just fine at my site! Thnx for this extension.

This package for joomla is the best solution for managing languages and translations of every thing on a joomla web-page.

Having read a few very bad reviews I was worried about even trying this component. As it turns out though it does everything I need and more. Menu items can all be translated so that the entire site is in the language of your choice.
Being able to turn a menu item on or off depending on the language would seem to be useful to many but for my simple site Joom!fish was ideal.
Thank you very much!

This extension has many troubles with Joomla 1.5.
I tryed JF 1.7 with Joomla 1.0.X it was working.

I love Joomfish! There are so many languages available and this extension is so flexible. I can recommend it to anyone. I am building a site for an international company. I am using joomfish 2.0 for Joomla 1.5 and it I am setting it up in english/dutch/french/romanian and chineze. No problems so far....
But I have the same problem which many other people have too I think, I have great problems with not being able to make the menu language dependent. I think allmost all sites that are set-up in a few languages need it.

So I am a bit stuck regarding that feature. Hope they have a sollution soon. Apart from that one of the best extensions!

It has a powerful translation manager for articles. But I can not test JoomFish 2 beta because there is still no menu manager for different languages.

It is easier for me to start a multilingual site with M17n, you can start the structure because there is a language selector which is efficiently linked to the menu manager. M17n has no translation manager for articles yet, but you can multiple your articles in different languages.

Hopefully, next JoomFish 2 may have a translation manager for menus.

I used JoomFish in an earlier site a couple of years ago and loved it. It worked great, but I was only using it for a site displayed in English and Spanish.

Now I want to create a new 1.5.2 site using JoomFish 2.0 beta (for testing) and I want to use English, Spanish, French and Portuguese initially. However, I can't find language packs for either Portuguese (Portugal, not Brazil) or French. To add to the confusion, many of the language files listed in 'Extensions' don't offer intuitive names or descriptions, and don't always call themselves 'language packs'.

What's more, I've posted messages in the JoomFish forums on the subject, but get no replies - other users posting related questions get no useful replies either. No replies to my emails either.

If this extension is going to get really popular and excellent ratings, we (the users) must have easy access to a definitive list of available language packs.

I'm giving-up on JoomFish for now, and going to try M17n. :(

I haven't had any problems with Joom!Fish so far, it is my true favourite. Just when running Joom!Fish 1.7 on Joomla 1.0.13 it needs the admin session fix (located here: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=200725) after fix - working perfectly!