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absolutely fantastic plugin, I have been wanting to do this for a while and I am so glad i have found your plugin! Some times when you make a website for a client they only want basic front-end access, so if they add a new page you want the page to be add to a certain menu automatically. This is exactly what this does!
Will there be a artcats plugin made for Joomla 1.7? I really hope so as a few of my new sites are made with the new Joomla!

Pretty good module, but it doesn't show up on my homepage. Did I miss anything? I suppose this is because it doesn't belong to a specific category? Is there no default where the categories for a default section are shown?

Also it seems to me that there should be a way to limit the number of articles displayed. For example if you have a category with 3 articles and one with 15, you will have a very short module in some cases and an extremely long one in others (in auto mode). So it would be nice to be able to set a limit of, say, 5 articles per category.

Also there doesn't seem to be any option to display articles by date???

I have been using ArtCats for two weeks; Installation went great, no problems at all installing or using this great module.

Easy to understand guidelines; appropriate options. I was not overwhelmed either with the grammar or the volume of options, and it suited my needs perfectly.

Thank you.

If I could, I would marry this module in a blink. Mostly because it's free...

Just started using ArtCats today and agree with the other comments about ease of use. Nice one!

This module is fantastic. It is very surprising that it is not a core extension. However, I am having issues with using the core Joomla SEF turned on. When I go to an article, and I am using the expandable menu, the little + and - images break. It has something to do with the category being written into the name of the URL. I have hunted around to figure out how to address this, and cannot seem to figure it out.

Otherwise, this module is truly excellent.

The possibilities are limitless with this module. If you're creative you can use it to accomplish a lot of things that you can't do natively in Joomla. Every site imagineable could make great use of it! It works great and no bugs. Thanks so much!

Really nice module! simple but very powerful. Compliments

This module worked perfectly for the books I have listed on my site. I have 16 articles, each representing one chapter of a book, and they are listed under a single category for the book. I needed a simple way to create an index of the chapters, and this module does it perfectly. Using 2.0.4 - no issues with the install, SEF works fine...no complaints. Great job!

This is a good module - does what it says but there is no uninstall or it does not register itself to be uninstalled if you find out you do not want to use it. Has a lot of features and a suggestion is to allow it to place more than just the title of the article but maybe a full article post with comments. Good luck to the developer.

This is a great module, very simple to set up and us, with a wide range of features and possibilities. Thank you - it was exactly what I can searching for and works exactly how I wanted it!

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I needed a tree type of menu for my blog. I tried lots of things from the JED and was starting to get very frustrated. For one thing, I was looking in the tree menus, when this ARTCATS module was over in Articles Listing... shouldn't this be combined or cross-referenced with the menus somehow? Because ARTCATS is basically a very GOOD, configurable tree menu.

There are plenty of parameters so I could get just what I wanted for my menu. It seems to me that the code in this module must be very good because it was super-easy to install, with great results immediately. I was actually surprised it was so easy.

I wonder if ARTCATS is ready for Joomla 1.6 because it appears to allow nested categories too.

Very nice! All thumbs up!!

I had several articles under a menu and I wanted to list them on the side in a module. This is exactly what I was looking for. Of course it needs advancements but for my purpose it's exceeds MY expections. Does what it promises to do.

Even the module didn't get good reviews lately, I must say it is a good and useful module. For me it did what it suppose to do. The developer seams to put a lot of effort into this module and I'm sure he/she will solve the remaining issues with time.

Thanks for this module!

I used it to list article items on the left column to serve as a "menu" and it worked GREAT. However, when I add more modules of different categories to the right column to serve as links to the most recent 4 articles under each selected category, it was acting wired. It was displaying SAME articles under different categories. Otherwise, it would have been a perfect tool for what I needed.

Thank you for sharing!

I was very excited to find this plugin because it did just what I was looking for.

I installed the latest version (2.03). However, there are so many problems with it that I've had to uninstall it. Problems are:

1) It doesn't work with Joomla Core SEF.

2) The expandable facility doesn't work. When I go to a section, all the categories plus all their articles are listed in the menu. What should happen is that only the category with the article you are reading should be expanded, the others should be closed.

3) The subcats patches have something wierd in them. After installing them, errors start appearing within core joomla!! Luckily I backed up my site before installing the patches so no harm done.

4) Other people had mentioned some of the same problems I am having on the support page, but there is no reply given to them and some of those comments are 3 months old

I appreciate the developer is offering the plugin for free and this is not a go at him. It's just very frustrating because this plugin would be amazing if it worked.

If it worked, I would even pay for it because the functionality is just what I want! I am wondering what I have done wrong because evother reviewers have idently managed to get it working.

Great tool! My only request would be to control the amount of articles displayed. If you have a category with many articles, all of them will show down the column.

After playing with a variety of components and modules to achieve this effect, I was pleased to discover how simple this one was to implement.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

Awesome! All I was trying to do was list a side menu with all the articles in all categories within a section (and automagically add new articles when published). I would assume Joomla core modules could do this. Regardless, thanks a bunch :-)