FJ Related Articles Plus
Version
1.02 (last update on Aug 24, 2011)
Rating
Compatibility
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97
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
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Date Added
14 October 2008
* Now available for Joomla version 1.6 and 1.7!
* New! Sort articles in random order.
* New! Show module on any page of any Menu Item Type (not just article layouts)
* New! Include articles based on Section, Category, Author, or Author Alias, unrelated to the current article in view or current Menu Item
* New! Only show articles that have a minimum number of matching keywords
* New! Pick Sections, Categories, Authors, and Author Alias values from a list instead of entering ID numbers
* Limit the list of related articles by count
* Limit the list to selected Sections or Categories (including the current article's Section or Category)
* New! Enter a list of keyword phrases to ignore when finding related articles. This is handy if you have some keyword phrases that are used in all of your articles.
* Sort the list by number of matching keyword phrases ("best match")
* Sort the list by keyword phrase
* Display the matching keyword phrases
* New! Include articles by the same author or author alias.
* New! Option to see article preview in tooltip.
* New! Option to see last modified date or created date.
* New! Option to include all articles in the same category as the current article.
* New! Option to ignore all keywords and just match on author or category.
* Numerous other options For more information about FJ Related Articles Plus, see the tutorial page at http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/freejoomla/wiki/?pagename=FJ+Related+Articles+Plus. You can download this extension here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/freejoomla/frs/.
Hello I am using your extension with joomla 2.5 I have intro images on all my articles. They do appear normaly when I make a menu with normal category blog list but do not appear when I make menu with a FJ related blog list. Is there a reason?
It works fine for me. It took 2 minutes to get it work. Thanks ;)
Installed this module, tested it, and found an issue with the ordering options. I reported it in the support forum and within hours a fix was created.
That is what I call great support! It's a great example of open source at it's best.
Thanks Mark (and FJ Related team). Keep up the great work!
That is what I call great support! It's a great example of open source at it's best.
Thanks Mark (and FJ Related team). Keep up the great work!
For using just the bare bones capabilities, it works great and easy. However, there are a number of features that are not as smooth. For me in particular, I wanted the tooltip feature. This does not work well. There are several forums on the subject where basically people just gave up on support and abandoned use of the feature. From what I can tell, if you have a problem you are going to get no help.
I've used this extension in a recent project. It wirked well for what we required but we noticed (perhaps a little too late) that an essential functionality did not work, at least not under J1.6.
Under J1.6, when viewing a list of related items, the pagination does not display at all. This is a major problem and although I have posted on the developers support firum, along with a few others, as of yet no reply.
Under J1.6, when viewing a list of related items, the pagination does not display at all. This is a major problem and although I have posted on the developers support firum, along with a few others, as of yet no reply.
Upon initial implementation the module looks great. Does what it says, and gives lots of configuration options to control which artilces are listed
Pros:
Easy to install/configure
Highly configurable with useful options
Cons:
Related links were not reciprocal. Article 1 would have a related link to article 2 but not vice-versa. Went to support, issue was not resolved. Quick reply suggested it was a template issue, last post has not been responded to (11 days old).
Tooltip option looked cool, couldn't get it to work properly, not valuable enough for me to go to support about it.
Overall
Module is still on my site because despite it's major flaw, it is still better than the core option.
If this issue could have been resolved this review would have been 5 stars.
Easy to install/configure
Highly configurable with useful options
Cons:
Related links were not reciprocal. Article 1 would have a related link to article 2 but not vice-versa. Went to support, issue was not resolved. Quick reply suggested it was a template issue, last post has not been responded to (11 days old).
Tooltip option looked cool, couldn't get it to work properly, not valuable enough for me to go to support about it.
Overall
Module is still on my site because despite it's major flaw, it is still better than the core option.
If this issue could have been resolved this review would have been 5 stars.
Very nice and handy, so i decided to use it on one of my sites, despite a few problems.
In tooltip - the size of pictues cannot be adjusted. So if the picture is quite large, the pictures goes out of the tooltip borbers.
Also,
if i use it only for 1 menu item, which is a blog of the category for my site, i don't get any related articles on my main blog index page (site.com/category/blog.html). Though the related articles are dispalyed on every page of the blog.
In tooltip - the size of pictues cannot be adjusted. So if the picture is quite large, the pictures goes out of the tooltip borbers.
Also,
if i use it only for 1 menu item, which is a blog of the category for my site, i don't get any related articles on my main blog index page (site.com/category/blog.html). Though the related articles are dispalyed on every page of the blog.
FJ-related makes it possible to group articles in blog-layouts as you wish.
You are not limited to sections and categorys. You can pick articles from any category and reassemble them in a blog-layout.
One article can be a part of multiple fj-related blog-layouts.
You can make as many blog-layouts as you want.
I hope Joomla1.6 version is coming soon!
You are not limited to sections and categorys. You can pick articles from any category and reassemble them in a blog-layout.
One article can be a part of multiple fj-related blog-layouts.
You can make as many blog-layouts as you want.
I hope Joomla1.6 version is coming soon!
Excellent extension!
Does exactly what it says. It gives you more options to adjust than you need, but everything is simple and easy to understand and configure.
The only minus is that for a site like mine, where every article has a big (500px width) intro photo which exceeds the tooltip margin and there is no way to make it resize the picture or not show it at all.
But it worths a full 5 stars!
Does exactly what it says. It gives you more options to adjust than you need, but everything is simple and easy to understand and configure.
The only minus is that for a site like mine, where every article has a big (500px width) intro photo which exceeds the tooltip margin and there is no way to make it resize the picture or not show it at all.
But it worths a full 5 stars!
FJ Articles Plus allows tailoring of the Related Articles limited to selected sections and categories. What is I particularly appreciate is the abililty to restrict related articles to the currently viewed article's section and/or category. Very useful when in aiding a visitor to view the articles in a particular topic.
This extension with plugin Add Keywords help much the indexing the articles and relation betwen contents!!! Beautifull, thank your develepers!
Was looking all day for a solution to adding related articles to each article without having to rely on meta tags. In my case i use this module to display related articles by category. Easy install, easy setup, perfect thanks
I really like this module. It gives you more options to choose from to set the related items than the normal joomla module gives you.
The only thing that could be better is the hovering in IE. I've set it to show the introtext on hovering, but in IE it shows the and tags, whereas in FF it does what it is supposed to do...
The only thing that could be better is the hovering in IE. I've set it to show the introtext on hovering, but in IE it shows the and tags, whereas in FF it does what it is supposed to do...
Okay i love the mod very usefull the only part i dont like or maybe cant figure out. Is there anyway to instead of just showing a link to related articles instead just show the article in the block instead. this should be an option. i would like to have related snippets and this works perfectly besides that its just showing the link to the snippet. i would rather it show the actual snippet related. is it possible ?
Excellent module. I like that it gives you control over categories and sections. Tooltips on links gave me a bit pain on figuring out how to style them, but other than that it's great enhancement of standard module. Plus it takes over styling of the old module whether you did or did not use Module Class Suffix.
Very recommended.
Very recommended.
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