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Joom!Fish - multilingual content manager 
Version
2.0.3 (last update on Apr 5, 2009)
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License
GPL
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Date Added
17 March 2006
It is our pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Joom!Fish 2.0 stable version.
Joom!Fish is the solution for your multilingual website if control over the translations matters for you. The extension is totally free of charge available and allows translation of any content within your Joomla system. With an easy extension it is also possible to translate any 3rd party extension available for your favored CMS.
Joom!Fish 2.0 is the full featured release including several addons such as a simple Router for your SEO URL's and automatic search within the core extensions of Joomla. It comes with an integrated one step installer that allows you to get started very simple.
Free documentation including video tutorials, first step documentations and additional material is available on our website. The site also includes an open forum for community support and additional resources.
The Joom!Fish project also offers a subscriptions based club membership that gives you additional first level support and extensions. With that you can provide an even extended user experience for your multilingual website.
bygadabout on June 23, 2009
I have to rave about this one, as it is so cool!
Super easy to install. Super easy to figure out. In less than 15 minutes I was up and running and translating my site.
I don't think I've ever used a high-feature component that was so easy to use.
Thanks guys!!
Super easy to install. Super easy to figure out. In less than 15 minutes I was up and running and translating my site.
I don't think I've ever used a high-feature component that was so easy to use.
Thanks guys!!
This extension is a must have for every Joomla user. Without this extension joomla wouldn't be that sucessfull.
byOsoloco on June 10, 2009
Great!! Joomfish is great!! I installed (no problems) and in less than an hour I was translating my articles. Quite easy to learn.
I only had one bug. The module "languaje selector" doesn't read the joomfish css. So it is always -raw images-.(for me no problem, it fits with my web style).
Thanks a lot to the developers! And also thanks for the video tutorial in your website, useful!!!
I only had one bug. The module "languaje selector" doesn't read the joomfish css. So it is always -raw images-.(for me no problem, it fits with my web style).
Thanks a lot to the developers! And also thanks for the video tutorial in your website, useful!!!
byyahhr857 on April 30, 2009
I have great faith by the testimony here that this is an excellent product. While my first shot at using it ended in disaster (I had to reload my admin module from scratch), I believe it was more operator error than the program itself.
This is a thorough and complete application that is going to bring a huge increase in visitors to my site once I get it up and running properly. I am on my way to the forums to do it right this time.
The best thing you can do to PROPERLY learn this app is to read, be patient, and take your time learning. It is definitely NOT an instant gratification program for those who want to install and go! My USA "gotta have it now" mindset foiled first attempts at installing and running this app. I am confident it will not be that way the next time!
This is a thorough and complete application that is going to bring a huge increase in visitors to my site once I get it up and running properly. I am on my way to the forums to do it right this time.
The best thing you can do to PROPERLY learn this app is to read, be patient, and take your time learning. It is definitely NOT an instant gratification program for those who want to install and go! My USA "gotta have it now" mindset foiled first attempts at installing and running this app. I am confident it will not be that way the next time!
byGuriarte on April 19, 2009
this application can really be useful, but if you change your mind (like I did), and try to unionist it you will find that you may run into serious issues.
Users to my site could not log out or in, and then even the admin. It could cause some serious problems to your site!
The application is very easy to use, and you can see where you can put your translations. Did not work for me though.
Users to my site could not log out or in, and then even the admin. It could cause some serious problems to your site!
The application is very easy to use, and you can see where you can put your translations. Did not work for me though.
Owner's reply
Dear Guriarte,
Could you please get in touch with us within our forum? This shouldn't definitely not be the case. Joom!Fish was especially design in a way that you can easily turn it off again or even remove it.
In our constant effort to improve our extension your personal experience and feedback is highly appreciated.
Thanks
Alex
bymastix on April 3, 2009
Well this is really a great extension. I had some problems first that were quickly solved by their forums. I think this might be one the most necessaries extensions of Joomla. I am still playing with it but so far I am impressed.
byalgisinfo on March 24, 2009
It does what it is said it does.
Easy to install.
Easy to translate.
Easy to implement on other extension for multilingual support.
A 'must have' for any multilingual web site.
Added as a favorite.
Easy to install.
Easy to translate.
Easy to implement on other extension for multilingual support.
A 'must have' for any multilingual web site.
Added as a favorite.
bySebastyne on March 18, 2009
I don't know why it is, but this is one of the hardest-to-manage components or script packages of any kind that I've ever tried out. It simply isn't intuitive, at least not to me, and the documentation is useless. However, once you learn that you have to publish your main language twice - first normally through Article manager, then the second time as a copy of itself as a translation, it will start to make sense and show it's value.
I love the fact you can translate EVERYTHING on Joom!Fish, even those bits that seem completely useless to translate, like usernames. (No, I still don't know why you would want to, but I love the fact the option is there.)
It took me about 3 days of active use to figure this extension out, and I normally allow 15 minutes... However, it was worth the effort.
I love the fact you can translate EVERYTHING on Joom!Fish, even those bits that seem completely useless to translate, like usernames. (No, I still don't know why you would want to, but I love the fact the option is there.)
It took me about 3 days of active use to figure this extension out, and I normally allow 15 minutes... However, it was worth the effort.
Owner's reply
Dear Sebastyne,
Could you please get in touch with us e.g. using our forum. We are very interested in making Joom!Fish more intuitive to use. For this we need feedback of users.
Many thanks in advanced
Alex
byIToris on February 24, 2009
Nice component indeed. I got both my content and dynamic elements easily translated. The back-end translation management is convenient and user-friendly.
The only issue appeared is No translation available message on both languages (including the default one) - yet after some forum browsing the issue has been solved (well...it's better to say passed through with Settings' change).
Also a little drawback - it took me some time finding a Settings button :)
Yet all these slight issues are easily forgotten when you get such a powerful multi-lingual functionality.
Thanks, guys :)
The only issue appeared is No translation available message on both languages (including the default one) - yet after some forum browsing the issue has been solved (well...it's better to say passed through with Settings' change).
Also a little drawback - it took me some time finding a Settings button :)
Yet all these slight issues are easily forgotten when you get such a powerful multi-lingual functionality.
Thanks, guys :)
bysnailgoop on February 17, 2009
It could be a great component and I do apologize, I suppose, for the very poor rating but this is awful. I installed the new version of Joomfish, realized that while it's good software, you're pretty much on your own translation-wise and with multiple duplicate untranslated pages, I TRIED to uninstall it. When I uninstalled it, I received a fatal error message and now I cannot access my entire administrator section for Joomla. What a nightmare!
bymarianlibrarian on February 3, 2009
I re-installed JoomFish and while I receive no errors, there are no translations except for:
The Search Box
The area that describes the author and time content was written
The footer area
In the Control Panel in the Translations I checked to make sure that everything was published and the green indicator icon was there, not the little red x. I checked to make sure that menus, banners, contents, etc. were translated and published and it there were no red x's. I also looked under Statistics, Check Translation Status and the column "not valid" is all zeros.
I am beginning to see why this "Club Membership" thing is pushed here. Gold Silver and Bronze.... Hmmm.... Unfortunately, small public libraries will never be able to afford these "metals". So it looks my Spanish speaking community better hurry up and learn some english. What a shame.
If you can't afford to be a member of their club, it appears you are out of luck on getting it to do what it is supposed to do - translate pages of a website.
Why didn't I give it a Poor instead of just Fair? Because the administrative side was very nice. To bad it didn't really "translate" anything. But the admin side was very well done and easy to adjust to. It just that it lies to you. It says that everything is translated OK and everything is published but.... none of this is true on the site end.
The Search Box
The area that describes the author and time content was written
The footer area
In the Control Panel in the Translations I checked to make sure that everything was published and the green indicator icon was there, not the little red x. I checked to make sure that menus, banners, contents, etc. were translated and published and it there were no red x's. I also looked under Statistics, Check Translation Status and the column "not valid" is all zeros.
I am beginning to see why this "Club Membership" thing is pushed here. Gold Silver and Bronze.... Hmmm.... Unfortunately, small public libraries will never be able to afford these "metals". So it looks my Spanish speaking community better hurry up and learn some english. What a shame.
If you can't afford to be a member of their club, it appears you are out of luck on getting it to do what it is supposed to do - translate pages of a website.
Why didn't I give it a Poor instead of just Fair? Because the administrative side was very nice. To bad it didn't really "translate" anything. But the admin side was very well done and easy to adjust to. It just that it lies to you. It says that everything is translated OK and everything is published but.... none of this is true on the site end.
Owner's reply
Hi,
As we say everywhere Joom!Fish is not an extension for automatic translations. Was this that what you expected? Even in our Club you will not find a such an extension. There is a different project this offers something like that together with Joom!Fish
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/languages/automatic-translations/6541/details
May be the combination is what you are looking for.
byFlying Vegetable on February 2, 2009
I've been using Joomfish sine I sarted to manage my website with Joomla! and I'm totally happy with it all the time. I recently moved to 1.5; migration went painless thanks to released migrator plugins, but I experienced some serious trouble with getting it to work with Sh404Sef. Here You can see perfect cooperation between developers off those two extensions: Patches done the work for me.
I understand that developers want to be rewarded for their work, that's why I want to donate them just to say "Thank You", although I don't like the way "club" works now; I'd prefer normal donation option and true "extensions club" for eg. 70Euro/year, serving additional extensions for members...
Anyway, big "Thank You" Joomfish developers for that extension!
I understand that developers want to be rewarded for their work, that's why I want to donate them just to say "Thank You", although I don't like the way "club" works now; I'd prefer normal donation option and true "extensions club" for eg. 70Euro/year, serving additional extensions for members...
Anyway, big "Thank You" Joomfish developers for that extension!
bycharlieh on January 30, 2009
Well, having read the reviews, documentation, and installed this thing, I have been quite disappointed. Result - uninstalled. The way the documentation is distributed and structured makes it impossible to discover how to add languages to the default install. Searching the forums results in error messages suggesting the search terms are not adequate.Conclusion - I have been found inadequate by this developer - with no obvious way to resolve.
Not for the faint hearted, or anyone who can't spend more that 48 hours troubleshooting.
Not for me - Sorry.
Not for the faint hearted, or anyone who can't spend more that 48 hours troubleshooting.
Not for me - Sorry.
it could be better, a little bit hard to set up for first time. But this is my top favorite joomla extension. Its the only of this kind, and it works!
bybaijianpeng on January 8, 2009
I just can say Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!
Thanks to the authors.
Thanks to the authors.
bymgriffin on January 7, 2009
This is one of the greatest joomla extensions around.
I have been using it with Joomla 1.0.x for 2 years, and have now finished migrating it to 1.5.x. My site is translated into 10 different languages.
It was a rocky ride with the early beta and release candidate releases, especially because I also use the JoomSEF component, but it now works smoothly.
The guys at joomfish were very supportive, and all the incompatibilities have been ironed out. The combination with JoomSEF works well.
I have been using it with Joomla 1.0.x for 2 years, and have now finished migrating it to 1.5.x. My site is translated into 10 different languages.
It was a rocky ride with the early beta and release candidate releases, especially because I also use the JoomSEF component, but it now works smoothly.
The guys at joomfish were very supportive, and all the incompatibilities have been ironed out. The combination with JoomSEF works well.
byfernandoch on December 16, 2008
It is a great component for multilingual sites, but if you don't have a translation for a page, google will penalize you with duplicate content.
The alternative they give you, is a plugin for Joomfish that costs 60 euros. You should be aware of that.
The alternative they give you, is a plugin for Joomfish that costs 60 euros. You should be aware of that.
Owner's reply
Hi,
Doesn't this depend on the way how you structure your site? You refer to the fact that the original content is displayed if the translation is not available. This is a feature you can turn of in the extension as well (standard version). The addon you refer to is to suppress the articles in blog listings.
byJaheed on December 14, 2008
I install it, mess up an entire site. Tryed to uninstall it and I woke up with no access to admin. Had this error:
Warning: require_once(/components/com_joomfish/helpers/defines.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in administrator/modules/mod_translate/mod_translate.php on line 15
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'components/com_joomfish/helpers/defines.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in administrator/modules/mod_translate/mod_translate.php on line 15
the solution to this, without using a hopefully created backup, is to manually delete one more folder: administrator/modules/mod_translate. At least it worked for me. GL :)
Warning: require_once(/components/com_joomfish/helpers/defines.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in administrator/modules/mod_translate/mod_translate.php on line 15
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'components/com_joomfish/helpers/defines.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in administrator/modules/mod_translate/mod_translate.php on line 15
the solution to this, without using a hopefully created backup, is to manually delete one more folder: administrator/modules/mod_translate. At least it worked for me. GL :)
Owner's reply
Hi,
We are sorry for this. It was a bug that is fixed in the stable release. We hope you can give it a second try. The release is just some little testing ahead.
Alex
byeco on December 10, 2008
I needed a website with multiple languages. The reviews where good so I went ahead and installed it.
I've been using it for a couple of weeks and it's been perfect. It's easy to use and has all you need to get a website in multiple languages.
Thank you so much for this. One of the best extensions I've used.
I've been using it for a couple of weeks and it's been perfect. It's easy to use and has all you need to get a website in multiple languages.
Thank you so much for this. One of the best extensions I've used.
bybudfit on December 8, 2008
Sorry guys, I used to love the Joomfish when it was under 1.0 I had it on one of my sites and it is running just great!!!! Now I have another one in Joomla 1.5 and tried Joomfish thinking of premiere translation component. FORGET IT. Spent 45 min restoring my web site back to the origin stage when it was before I installed it. If you have SH404SEF installed as the SEF translation of URLs and now you want JOOMFISH, forget it. These two great components hate each other, there is no way you can bring back the web site unless you de-install it. I de-installed my favorite SH404SEF first thinking I would at least have bi-lingual site without SEF. Forget it, there is another issue which authors admit under Joomla 1.5. "It has become apparent that the Joomla caching system, which is based on files stored in the "/cache" directory, is not an ideal solution for Joomfish translation caching. It is too slow and can lead to large numbers of files being created which then cause the system to slow down as it works out which ones need deleting." No way you can figure out the patch yourself if you are a rookie like me. So after 1 hour of restoring my website I am finally left with plain web site and thinking to re-install the SH404SEF at least and think how to translate the web site... I guess English as default will do for now...
Best regards,
Alexander H.
Slovakia
PS don't take it as criticism, the component has still great potential and most of all is free, so I admire you for that, but please work with SH404SEF guys and program something working. Many thanks!
Best regards,
Alexander H.
Slovakia
PS don't take it as criticism, the component has still great potential and most of all is free, so I admire you for that, but please work with SH404SEF guys and program something working. Many thanks!
Owner's reply
Hi,
We try to work hard together with Yannick to make both extensions work together easily. Can you please give us some more details what went wrong for you? Best may be in our forum at www.joomfish.net/forum?
Thanks
Alex
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