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You know, this is just one of those plugins that just MAKES SENSE.

The keywords it detects aren't always what I want, but of course, you edit them manually if you like. What this does though is 1) gives me a great starting place grabbing the most relevant keywords or phrases from my article body and 2) allows user-generated content to become semi-SEO ready even without having to do anything.

It's a great tool. It's not a "final" solution for SEO or keyword generation; it's a great time saver and gives you a great starting point in generating your article's SEO metatags without much effort.

Great work!

The fact that you integrated the color scheming directly into the module would make this a 6-star review, if it could be.

Thanks for this. It's just one of those things where, I wanted it, and here it was, and you implemented the widget perfectly. Within only a couple minutes, it was setup, skinned (colorized to match my site) and added to my homepage. That's what I needed; something fast to do the job.

Links open in new window. +1! So... 7/5.

Now my site visitors can more easily view my TwitPic gallery (both Video and Photos) even without having to follow me on Twitter. Which to me just means I've added a photo gallery to my site without the need of having to redundantly upload my photos to both TwitPic and my own site (as would be the case with a "gallery" component).

So, thanks! Great work.

This is a really nice weather module--fast loading and attractive. But, there's no option to allow users to change the city being shown. For small local sites, this is fine, but for larger sites with users from all around, they want to see their weather, not ours.

While it appears this would be great for a site where the editors all have access to the backend, it entirely breaks the front-end content system.

Once either or both of the plugins are enabled, I found I can no longer submit content with anything other than the administrator back-end: all front-end content submission now generates a complete failure and the site crashes.

I am using Joomla 1.6.1.

This plugin has breathed new life into Joomla for programmers.

Up until finding CodeMirror, I had always been using the WYSIWYG and then pressing the "Source" button to do all my revisions. It was like working in a bad version of Notepad.

Enter CodeMirror, where it's more like working in gedit with HTML tag colorations and automatic indenting. Absolutely brilliant.

The one problem I find, without diving into it, is that it doesn't seem to work with Virtuemart: when editing products, if CodeMirror is my default editor in global config, the editor does not display at all for the product. I may dive into the code, but for now I'll just use it for articles. This may very well be a problem with VirtueMart and not CodeMirror; but I haven't looked into it.

Despite that one bit of trouble, thank you for this plugin! It has made working within Joomla a pleasure.

I needed something like this for this for a customer web site. The user has front-end access, but no access to the back-end--to keep it really simple for them, as they're novice users. They want to be able to add/edit articles, but not have to deal with the complication of Joomla in its entirety or even understand how the site works.

So that said, we were previously un-publishing articles in order to remove them from the site, which is less than ideal as it leads to some clutter in the back-end, and is a little more confusing for the user.

So their ability to now delete articles from the front-end (but still have them moved to Trash in case I need to restore them on their behalf) is really great.

The only thing I do not like about this is that it only places the Delete button on the Article View. I would rather the delete button be available _anywhere_ the edit button is available. Eg. when viewing an article category in List layout, Joomla adds the edit button beside each article's title, but the delete button provided by TD Frontend Delete doesn't become available unless you actually open the article for viewing.

So in my opinion, this plugin is good, with room to become great with that simple addition.

I really like this. The interface is not very polished, but it's really all about the functionality anyways. It's easy enough to edit the layouts if you know a bit of HTML / CSS / PHP.

The only "bug" I've really encountered is line 43 of /views/sugg/tmpl/default.php, where no matter who wrote a suggestion, the output will show it as being written by the logged-in user ($this->user_name). I noticed this when I saw that a suggestion one of my users had made showed as being suggested by "admin".

I simply changed line 43 to:
if($this->item->UID)
{
$user2 =& JFactory::getUser($this->item->UID);
echo 'This suggestion was submitted by ' . $user2->get('name') . '.';
}

All in all, a very workable system, and I adore the idea. I have not used "Bribe" yet, but I like the concept and plan to implement it in a test-run. Not perfect out of the box, but workable and excellent starting point.

I often have trouble with the file and folder permissions on my Joomla site, as my shared hosting provider tends to have some odd permissions sometimes when installing... so it often leads to errors on my Joomla site. I downloaded Admin Tools to fix this very problem, and it does a fantastic job of correcting the permissions.

Now, that's all I was expecting. But then I noticed Admin Tools also reported my Joomla version was out of date. Cool; I try to stay on top of it, but it's a pain in the rump to have to manually overwrite files by FTP. So I clicked the update button in Admin Tools, and to my surprise it automatically grabbed the patch file for Joomla, extracted it and installed it on my installation. I am now using the latest version of Joomla in only a few mouse clicks.

I was also shocked to find there are some great security enhancements added to Joomla by way of Admin Tools. Things like improved security using htaccess for the Administrator area. I mean, it's all "simple stuff", but putting it all in one place and making it so I don't have to do it manually... THAT is fantastic.

Across my multiple sites, this tool is going to save me a great deal of time, and will also help me effectively manage my Joomla version. FABULOUS.

Thank you so much for making this tool free. While I probably wouldn't have bought it if it were a commercial app, now that I've tried it I am going to have to track down a way to donate as a small thank you for what you've provided.

Great work! Keep the features coming! :)

Robbie

I love this for client sites. It seems any time you open up a site to receive content by the end user, it always ends up with those 10 MPiX files being sized to display at 320x240 ;)

So, this plugin is fantastic! Not only does it make my server happy, but it keeps the site looking better, loading faster, and gives us the opportunity to say to the customer "Don't worry about the file size or format: just upload it and let the backend do the rest".

Only thing I'd love to see is support for other images, not just content items. If this plugin could also do the images found in modules and even the site's template images, I'd be even more happy.

Thanks!

While I don't see a noticeable difference in page load time, I was pleased to come across this plugin because I like the idea of distributing some of my js libraries across super-fast free services such as Google. Technically, this should accelerate page load, and I love how easy it is.

Just install and activate the plugin, edit the settings, and it will automatically replace the code to load your common js libraries with ones hosted by Google. Brilliant.

What an exceptional plugin. I really love the look of it once it's up and running.

While it has the accordion effect, I find this one is less intrusive than some of the other accordion FAQ systems I've tried for Joomla.

The installation steps (setting up the categories) is a little convoluted on the developers' site, and the forum attempts to answer the simple questions about installation but the English is not clear, so I had a bit of trouble at first getting it going.

So, here's my step by step to help the next guy:

1) Install the "Core Design Scriptegrator" plugin first, which is required, and available on their site.
2) Activate that plugin if necessary. Leave the settings as is for now, because if you need to change anything, the plugin will tell you in the front-end.
3) Install the Core Design FAQ plugin.
4) Activate that plugin. Again, leave the settings as is, you can change them later (to show the category title, etc).
5) In Joomla's Section Manager, add a new section and call it "Frequently Asked Questions".
6) In Joomla's Category Manager, add a new category and call it "General" - this will be our "General" FAQ category. Make sure you place it in the "Frequently Asked Questions" section in the drop down.
7) Save the category and look to the right under the "ID" column (in Category Manager) and make a mental note of the number listed for the category you just created.
8) In Joomla's Article Manager, create a new article called "Frequently Asked Questions".
9) This article will be empty _except_ you need to add this text: {faq category="X"} where X is the number of the ID you made note of. If the ID was 5, you'll add {faq category="5"} Note: Once you're using more than one category, you will not add a second {faq ... instead, you can comma-separate the items. So, if you have Category ID 5, and Category ID 6, you'll have {faq category="5,6"}
10) Create a new article in Joomla's Article Manager (your first FAQ) and put it in the Frequently Asked Questions section and the "General" category.
11) Make sure the "Begin Publishing" date is in the past, the article is set to "Published", and press Save.
12) Create a new "Article View" menu item on your menu and point it to your "Frequently Asked Questions" article (the one which contains {faq).
13) Enjoy a great plugin!

[phew] we made it! Great work to the developers. I'd suggest fixing your documentation, as it's really unclear for a novice. I hope the above steps help someone.

For those who just don't understand what Vodes is, consider it a framework for programmers.

If you're not a PHP programmer, Vodes is not likely what you're looking for.

Vodes is not an 'install and use' component. Rather, it is an excellent starting platform for creating _your own_ "token" or "credit" system for Joomla. The tedious stuff is done for you: payment processing & populating the database with credits for your users.

This is NOT an out-of-the-box system.
This IS a starting pad for your own development project.

What Vodes does, for real:
1) User visits Vodes' component page
2) User selects how many "Vodes" (site credits) they would like to purchase
3) User checks out with PayPal
4) Credits are added to user's account in Joomla

That is where Vodes ends, and _you_ take over.

With a little PHP/mySQL/Joomla know-how and some clever ingenuity, you can now create your own system using the credits Vodes has placed on your users to (for example) charge a number of credits for someone to download a file from your site, charge credits to access certain pages or features, or simply use credits as a way for your users to battle it out in a donation war (someone with the most credits gets a special reward, for example).

The options are endless, as long as you 1) know how to code and 2) have a great idea.

Thanks for Vodes. It doesn't do much for the lay user, but for the coder (such as myself), it really saved me a lot of time on my development project.