This is the coolest component I've found for putting in slide shows into content...you can view an example of it in work here: http://gadabout.biz/paris-nature/parks-n-gardens/parc-floral/

It's flexible, and works well, and I'm using the UGM where you export with Picasa and then upload, and voila...very nice slide show.

My only suggestion: It would be VERY cool if this could be bridged to Community Builder somehow? Maybe there is a way and I've just not found it...will keep searching...but would love to let users create their own slide-shows...or have photo galleries...and give them a tab to show them...maybe a module that showed the most recent photo additions..etc..

This component isn't cheap, particularly at current exchange rates if you're using US dollars to get it. That said it's the only Tag component available, and so I too the leap and got it. The one major complaint I have is there is no users manual, no read-me file, no help file, nothing...no information what so ever in it. So, if it doesn't install right, as mine didn't, you can't even trouble shoot it. So I went to the help forums and Phil's website to try and get help. It take about 5 days, and I did get some passing the buck, but eventually, he jumped on board and went in and fixed it and got it all working for me: and he stayed very polite even though I was getting a bit snippy and frustrated. And frankly, it's a really super cool program,and the admin interface is quite nice and easy to figure out. It's exactly what I needed on my website to make it more user friendly and searchable. It's great. So, I think it's over-priced, but worth the money if you really need something like this, and eventually you will get good customer support if it's not working...you just have to submit all his help forms and send emails.

OK...After struggling with bridges that don't work, or forums that are hard to install or need all this extra code hacking or database changing, or forum-tabs in CB that don't work...finally...finally...this I just uploaded and installed the component and then the bridge to CB, and Voila! Works like a charm, is wrapped, user-sychronized...the works. It's such a relief to have something integrate so smoothely and nicely and fast! I was installed and working within an hour. Great job!

I noticed some winers making comments. They're expecting too much. For a completely free community building software/portal this stuff rocks. I'm not an expert with JOOMLA in the least and I had no trouble with getting it installed, and all the plugins I'm using so far have installed without a single hitch to speak of. I really recommend this for anyone wanting to have a basic community website.

This was easy to install, and worked right away, and easy to figure out. Very impressed. Great job. The only comment I might have is that the horizonal or verticle small button bar only will go at the botton of the page? It would be could be placed at the top if one wanted...

The one problem I had with the last one was that it only allowed just one drop-down menu per page...it's a great module...but that was one major draw back. I installed this new one hoping that had been fixed...but it hasn't...

It's cool...but you can only have one per page...who needs only 1 per page? It would be a fantastic module if that little item were fixed...as the one per page does work well...it's just not enough to only have one.

I like it...it's good...but why on Earth does it open Digg over my website? I should be opening it in a new window...that isn't hard to do in terms of programming...would be lovely if this was fixed...not sure I will keep using it when it's over-writing my site with the Digg site and visitors don't even have my site open in their browser window anymore...also...it's not finding the article at Digg very well...the user has to still search for it...

My site isn't too big, and doens't have tons of URLs, so, at least so far, it seems to be working really well. It's also the first one that has worked. I've tried several others that were on here and they just wouldn't work. This one works with my regular site, iJoomla magazine, and also with virtuemart. All seems good.

The only issue I had was that after I installed it my main domain wouldn't forward to iJoomla anymore when prior it had. I finally fixed that issue though, here is how (in case you have the same issue):


I had the JOOMLA front page on my main menu and my top menu. In both I had put the iJoomla as the first item. But, I don't even use the main menu. I only use the top menu on my site.

I had moved the iJoomla up to the number 1 postion on both those menus anyhow, and made it my homepage in the iJoomla configuration.

But, still, if I typed in www.homepageexample.com/home then iJoomla came up, and if I typed in www.homepageexample.com/ then the regular JOOMLA frontpage came up...I couldn't figure out why, and then I did...

I had unpublished the regular JOOMLA front-page from my top menu, as I use that menu on my webpage. And, then, on that menu only the iJoomla was published.

But...I hadn't done that on my main menu, as I don't even use the main menu on my website. I didn't know it would matter since I don't use that menu at all anywhere. I only use the top menu. So while the regular front page was unpublished on my top menu (which I use) it was still published to my main menu (which I don't use).

So, I just went in and saw that on the main menu the regular JOOMLA front-page was still published (though it was #3 down the list, and iJoomla was the first item on that list...but both were published on that list).

So, I unpublished it, and voila! No problem anymore.

I hadn't realized that would cause an issue, particularly considering I don't even use the main menu. I only use my top menu. I guess one just has to check all their menus, whether they're using them or not, and 'unpublish' the front-page option, and to move the iJoomla into the first postion...even if they're not using that menu...