This is a very sophisticated and very well developed and maintained extensions. Highly recommended to any one looking for a multilingual website.

Thank you!

I have been using Joom!Fish for about a year now. There is no other component that even comes close. Its easy to use & once you "get it" it's very fast to translate entire websites, it does so flawlessly.

If you don't know how to use it and are not keen to taking the time to learn this will be an issue. Any average person can figure it out...

Thanks Joom!Fish!

Very useful for a multi language website. If you do not need multi language, don’t install it , it produce unnecessary overhead

Best multilanguage Addon ! it's a must for any internationalized website!

Does exactly what it says and more. Great for managing multilingual sites and associated translations including the default language which imy case was most useful to change that "Welcome to the Frontpage" bit of the default English language pack directly via the interface. Fantastic and very flexible product.

I am bipolar, moody, angry as hell and ready to shoot myself! There is no support for this module and the documentation, tutorials and videos are all useless. I have been at this now for days and days just to get a simple article translated. I still can't figure out if it's meant to translate things for you or if you have to do it manually (What's the point of that?) That is how poor the information is on this component is.

Editors Pick? You must be joking!

It simply doesn't work. All I get is the English duplicated into where the German should be or blank spaces with nothing in them. Hello! I don't speak German and that is why I loaded this **** component to do it for me.

I heard it uninstalls nicely - 10 points for that! Obviously the best feature! *uninstalls*

Hi,
everything is working well. Good installation and nice handling. It's just what I was looking for. Thank you for doing this good tool.
Rudolf Aigner

all what iv done
with all the instruction
it always went wrong
alot of erorr
dosent support hebrew

It is a shame because I really think that Joomfish is the best, free multi-language extension for Joomla. However, Joomfish does not support PHP 5.3. If I am wrong, could someone please provide me with a download link?
I can not wait anymore for Joomfish to release a public, PHP 5.3 supported version (2.1), so does anybody know a good alternative solution to Joomfish with similar functionality? Tnx.

I've been using Joom!Fish for translating a website to a couple of languages, and it works like a charm!

It's very easy to use, and does exactly what it promises! Saved me a great amount too!

The ones that complained about that the component didn't translate the text for them automatically without them having to write the translation them selves, haven't read what the product is about!

I contacted the developer about a question, and was answered in a very kind way within the same day.

Great product, get it now!

Good job! love it!

I would definatly recommend Joom!Fish to everyone. I think people shouldn´t expect Joom!Fish to work with all plugins / components / modules. There are just too many out there and please think again! This is for free!
I also had to do some troubleshooting, but browsing a bit through the forum solved my problems!

I would give 4 and a half star, but as this is not possible I´ll give you guys 5! Keep up the good work!!!!!!

Its not the kind of thing that you just install and use. Their web page has 6 categories under documentation, but dont expect any to help you use this. Half of it is written for people who have never seen a cms, the rest seem like its written for some other plugin or something.
Its not really intuitive. Expect to burn time on it.
I guess once you figure it out it may work ok, but this is no longer 1990, the stuff that doesnt work without trying gets thrown away.

Installed and was able to use with many extensions. It looks pretty good. Sadly, it wont with Community Builder 1.2.x. Looked at the support forums but nothing there. Uninstalled until it support CB.

When it comes to multilingual sites, JoomFish is all you need. The only thing that prevents me to give 5 stars is that dev documentation didn't satisfy me (it's really difficult to get info about writing 100% HoomFish-compatible sql queries in Joomla development). Anyway, I really suggest it to you if you are creating a multilingual site!

This fish is an excellent and very powerful tool. Indeed, in my view there is no alternative if you want to have a professional, multi-language site. Also making it making it by hand as proposed in one of the reviews here is something I want to disencourage everybody. I have some experience with a large web site that I started 10 years ago with ASP. It is too complex and maintenance in several languages drives you crazy for a large site.

The Joomfish has only one small drawback. It is a bit tough in the beginning. The installtion went smooth. Then you want to take your first steps and go to the Joomla control panel, and you are confused.

My major problem was that whenever I had to select a language from the drop-down box, I never knew if I have to select my source or my target language. I think the developers could do a lot with little effort to ease these problems with a step-by-step tutorial. Also some tool tip information next to the language selection boxes would help, and maybe a better wording on the translation form by using such unambiguous words like 'source language' and 'target language'.

There is indeed a lot of documentation - text, videos and a forum. But it is a bit here and a bit there, but you do not get the whole picture. Therefore my main advice, first take half a day to read before you go into action.

A few more tips: Use Firefox. I got an "error on page" message when I used the 'Manage Translations' function with IE8. (this function is not really necessary in my view).

In my experience you need mainly the 'Translation' menu. That page is your main tool. And when your basic language is let's say English and you want to tranlate into German, then select "German" from the drop down box, and from the "contents elements" box select something easy to start with like your contact page. Then check how it works. Once you got the hang of it, it is a charm and big fun.

In spite of the little criticism I decided to give a full 'excellent' rating. It is an excellent tool, and guys let's not forget that we get this for free!

I finally got this to work! Here is my story..

I tried to get joomfish to work. The installation went smooth but after some time I gave up on the component and uninstalled it.

Three months later I decided to wrestle some more with the big Fish because I found out there are only two ways of translating your page: Do it manually by copying all menus and articles OR do it with JoomFish... so I installed it again.

At first I was doing all right but then I found out that the developers take out key functions that you will have to buy. These functions are for example to hide untranslated articles and change menus. So if you don´t want to translate every single article on your page or manage your menu items the Joomfish development team want you to pay 70-120 euros per year.

My web page does not get any income for its maintenance and I cant afford to pay such money. I came really close to giving up but after looong time (days) I found a way to hack the code so it would work.

Advices:
1. Study the content of JoomFish web page
2. Read the FAQ.
3. Find the forum for JoomFish Core
4. Prepare your self for a big fight!
OR
Upgrade your membership with JoomFish.


Joomfish is a great extension and adds amazing functionality to joomla. Sadly you have to fight this non-commercial component (JoomFish Core) to make it work. I would definitely give JoomFish five stars if the missing functions where included.

Good luck!

Easy to install and after reading the documentation I soon installed a few languages.

The only downside, the translations for the Article need to be put in manually. Unfortunately I only speak English and need a translation extension that automatically translates the Articles.

This is an outstanding multilanguage non commercial component. On the site you find well done tutorials and video tutorials.

I have lot of experience developing but not so much with Joomla PHP. I had to build a multilingual site, from installation to finishing one article and enabling it in my site I spent 5 minutes. I cannot understand other negative reviws regarding instalation.

Excellent work, congratulations!