I think that some of the preceding criticisms of this component are actually criticisms of Joomla itself, especially the inadequate user/content/security issues. This is not an issue with mycontent. If you want good access control over content then you need another CMS system, not Joomla.

As the author says 'mycontent' is a quick hack of existing code allowing your users to make modifications to existing content or to create new content in existing categories. He says nothing about adding new menu items and so you should not expect the component to do so.

As for not working with Artio, it's probably the other way round, Artio has a funny way of making a site do strange things.

I have used 'mycontent' with Artio, pagecache and it works well on all sites installed. If you allocate its use carefully you have a very useful tool indeed. I always grant access to key sub-editors and they can create/modify content responsibly on behalf of other submitters.

The component appears to have no bugs and works out of the tin. A highly recommended addition to Joomla.

The component works fine, but doesn't work togheter with Artio installed (unpublishes pages randomly).

Also, it lacks a few important features, first of all the possibility to delete articles.

Finally, the author provides NO SUPPORT at all.

What a great idea. Lots of developers want clients not to access the admin area, so being able to publish new content from the frontend is invaluable.

Two key problems seem to show a lack of understanding of the full value of the idea of non-techies publishing from the frontend.

- you can publish to a category / section, but not a menu, which is a vital part of updating a site. This means someone will have to access the admin area ( where we don't want non-techies ) and manually add the new content to the menu.

- you can publish and see if it YOU are logged in, but it doesn't appear if you're not logged in.
What's the point of publishing content to a site if noone but you can see it?


I want to publish content and link it to a site menu and allowing everyone to see the published content - not sure why the Author hasn't bothered to set up any of this functionality

Too bad...a good start.

This is a worthwhile component but it overrides the built in Joomla workflow privileges.

If you run Joomla! with the strict user privileges, i.e., Author, Editor, Publisher, etc., for frontend users, when using this module, the parameters located within the menu item closes the granularity down so that Registered/Author/Editor/Publisher have all the same Access Level as Joomla! contains called 'Registered'.

Note: User level privileges are located in the User Manager when creating a user. Access Level privileges are located in the actual Menu items under 'Access Level'.

What this means for MyContent component is that each one of these Registered Access users can update any already published item other than their own which does not bode well for workflow. Newly created items are still prohibited from being published until the Publisher or Administrator does it.

In addition, only a notification goes to the Administrator when in the Joomla! workflow it should go to the Publisher since that privilege will be actually doing the final publishing and NOT the Administrator.

I am not sure if this is just some conflicting convention in Joomla! as a default with regards to menu items.

frontend content management for everyone-- users don't have to be technical to add content-- very helpful and useful, works intuitively and right out of the install. nice!

Simple and useful, just needs delete function... THANKS!

Hey my-content dudes! Very nice comp! I was so NOT wanted to share the control panel to my client yet them having control over contents really rocks! Thanks a lot!

Perfect! Nothing more to add :)

myContent is that damn nice

user friendly: 10
Simple: 10
easy install: 10
language: 10

now i need a component like

mySections

or like

myCategories

Waiting for that one

Greetz, RWest

This component is simly great. It's what I neeed !

*Love* what it does. Makes content adding/editing from the front-end so much cleaner!

Had a *ton* of problems with output on IE6 causing the whole page to disappear (peekaboo bug). I've completely rewritten the output for my own use. This may or may not affect other templates, I haven't tested.

The component's parameters aren't configurable from the Components menu, but instead from whatever menu link you create to the component. Took me a while to figure this out the first time, and I forgot about it by the time I needed to change it again. I resorted to editing the code directly.

The default Date Format (strftime) is %D, which apparently isn't supported on Windows, some Linux flavors, and several other operating systems (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.strftime.php). Lucky me, I have one of those. For anyone else with this trouble, %D is equivalent to %m/%d/%y, which now works fine.

I would *love* to prevent authors/editors from making changes to published content, but this seems to be a core Joomla issue...

Hi from Italy,
thank you for this Component! Work fine and is really excellent!

I think the component is quite neat and gives you access to everything you ever published in one place - in the front-end. However, for sites like mine that give the members the status of authors from registration, it falls short on the permission level.

In Joomla an author can submit news, but can't publish it or edit it. This is what I need in my site. But when I use myContent, the members (which are Authors) override Joomla permission, becoming Editors and Publishers!

This is a known issue and I've been looking forward for an upgrade, but it ain't happening... [sobs]...

This is something that should be implemented in Joomla.
As others pointed, a delete-button would be nice, also the drop-down selector to make a new article might be a little confusing. This is very small details, not stopping me to give this component a absolute top rating!

this component works exactly as stated and was very simple to install. 2 minutes after the download i had it installed, read the simple instructions, and was off and running.

if you don't feel like reading the short paragraph instructions just realize that in order to use this, you need to make a link to it from somewhere, like on your user menu (where your users can add content, add links, etc..