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5 Stars all round. This is a great extension and should be used my more people. I had to get through a lot of others before I got down the list this this.

It is simple.. It works ( even on an IIS server).. CSS is easily modified.. and has all the features that you ( well.. I ) could want.

Was able to create a great 'wall' gallery with the addition of some opacity css and the client loves it.

The only comments I would make are 1) It could use some english docs (sorry, but the google translate isnt great) and 2) if you use the on site translater, you cant downlod (oops) because of the http://translate links.

Thank you so much for this! Keep up the great work.

I tried an updater some time ago, (with Joomla on a windows server I might add ) and had mixed results, and since then have done things manually..

I saw this today and decided to try again and WOW, its perfect! I have now installed and updated several sites on different hosts and servers without a single problem.

This will be on every joomla install I do from here on in. And if you look at the Sams site, there are more tools that could even make that process easier!

Great work, some of the best I have seen. Keep it up!

Simple to install, good configuration options for what I needed, and saved manually coding the solution. Have not had it running for long, but so far... very impressed with this handy little plugin.

I searched high and low for something to display a list of categories with descriptions from a specific section. Something I had expected Joomla to do natively ( new to Joomla) but was wrong.

I tried EVERY other similar extension listed in the directory, but this is the one that actually worked! And worked perfectly with everything I threw at it.

It did everything I needed, and everything that the others forum questions/requests where asking for and not getting with other extensions.

tableless layouts for the blog, selection of blog or list click through choices, SEF , allowed for description tag stripping (or NOT), and even allowance for plugins ie: { } inclusions in the category description ( with the other appropriate module).

It displays to a module position which is great for a custom blog sidebar etc, or as I have used it... in conjunction with a 'module in content' module, and a little css work .. allows me to display a full page/article category navigation page for my actual site structure

Beyond this, the response from the author to questions in the forum was almost immediate, and was very helpful, even when I asked silly questions.

If you want this sort of functionality, start here.

Many many thanks.

After a lot of reading to try and get JQuery running nicely with Joomla ( and mootools.. ho hum) just to get slimbox 2 working, I came across this. I have not tested extensively, or looked to hard at all the implications, but after trawling the forums and finding a lot of stuff I didn't really understand how to implement manually (Im a JS hack at best) this got me up and running in 5 min.

Install, add the slimbox JS to my template and I was away.

Will test it with other JQuery stuff I have on non-joomla sites, but so far so good.

Thanks for saving me having to become a JS coder ( for now :)