baijianpeng

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bybaijianpeng, April 29, 2009
SimpleCaddy
This is a lightweight shopping cart solution, especially for its "sell products in Joomla content" feature.

However, the language file is not complete yet so that I can't make a full translation for it.

Hope the author will add those lost strings into the language files.

Thanks.
Owner's reply

Although I speak a number of languages, by far my knowledge of all the kindly submitted translations is insufficient. In case a translation string is unavailable in a certain language file, the original variable will show up. The same variable should be in the language file with its translation. If not, you would know your own language better than I do to translate it.

bybaijianpeng, April 25, 2009
JUMultithumb
I tested this plugin recently. The author even forgot to pack up JQuery Lighbox folder and files, but the XML file try to install them at the same time.

Another problem is, this plugin will also try to generate thumbnails for my math equation images which were output by mimiTeX plugin and made those images can't be displayed.

I also tested another famous plugin MultiThumb, MultiThumb can automatically ignore equation images.

I think the author of JUMultithumb should learn something from MultiThumb, if it is possible, please take over the MultiThumb code and continue it, because that project seems been abandoned by its author.

For the equation image issue, you also can add a new option to solve it. This option is: exclude images with "nothumbnail" CSS class name.

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, April 24, 2009
FlexBanner
This is the best banner manager for Joomla 1.5 ! For a long time I was looking for a way to display flash format banners, now it was solved by this component.

the only disadvantage is that the author did not add multi-language for it. Hope he will add a /language folder soon.

Thanks.
Owner's reply

Language folder now added.

bybaijianpeng, April 18, 2009
I must salute to Joeguo since he had contributed several excellent free plugins to Joomla community including this one.

This plugin will save your bandwidth and make your page open faster. It is really a Must-Have!
DFContact with Captcha-Support / SMTP-Support
This is a good component to offer CAPTCHA support. I tested DFcontact v1.0.3 for Joomla 1.0 today. It can't pick up the correct language file. I have to manually specify the language file.

I think you can make this component better by detecting the correct language file automatically.

Thanks to the author.
bybaijianpeng, February 12, 2009
tinCaptcha
The author did not make it clear that this CAPTCHA engine requires modification to Joomla core files to be applied to the default contact form.

Finally, after the email exchange with the author, I found out how to modify those code. I think the author should include that link to the forum post in the extension description.

Though this is a good extension, I think modifying core files is not good.
bybaijianpeng, February 4, 2009
MetaMod
I want to show some modules ONLY to guests, but Joomla can't do it.

This module offered such a possibility.

However, I hope the author can make this option more easier to use, for example let me choose which user group I want to show the module to, since I don't know PHP at all. I don't know how to use those PHP variables in the Help part of this module backend page.

Thanks.
Owner's reply

Hi baijianpeng,

I just released version 1.5h which has just what you were asking for - a simplified way of making modules available only to guests or only to logged-in users. This is one of the most common uses for MetaMod and it made sense to give it a GUI.

Version 1.5h is now even easier to upgrade to - just install this version on top of the previous one, and it will keep all your old MetaMods in place, setup and all.

Hope you like it!

Regards, Stephen Brandon

bybaijianpeng, January 30, 2009
This is a great plugin. If your J1.5 website seldom modify articles, this plugin can generate Static HTML pages for your articles and make your website faster.

Thanks to the author Joe.
bybaijianpeng, January 9, 2009
Thanks to Paolo De Nictolis for your security patch.

I would like to see more template for this component. Such as, in the main page, show people photo thumbnails in the same line with their names.

Thank you.
bybaijianpeng, January 8, 2009
Joom!Fish
I just can say Excellent! Excellent! Excellent!

Thanks to the authors.
bybaijianpeng, January 1, 2009
ThumbsUp Latest News
This module is really amazing. It is not just resize the image, but generate a true thumbnail image and reduce the filesize. This can speed up the loading of page.

I hope the author will add a new feature of presenting Random Articles from specified section(s) or categories.

Thanks.
Owner's reply

Random selection is introduced in the latest version. Tx for the suggestion.

bybaijianpeng, December 17, 2008
JoomSlide
I rated this one Average not because it can't work for me. Even it can work, I also think it is not good enough.

The author used the word Automatically when introducing this plugin. What is the meaning of Automatically? If a plugin needs manually edit CSS file and manually set the CSS class for the image, it shouldn't be called Automatically. Take a look at another plugin named Multithumb, that is real Automatically.
Owner's reply

Sometimes people don't speak English natively, can make mistakes. However JoomSlide creates thumbnails automatically, but you need tag the image with "joomslide" in class option.
By other way, this can be a good new feature really, JoomSlide can process all the images automatically and to create thumbnails automatically, so will be added in the next version.
thank you for you review.

bybaijianpeng, December 15, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
For a long time, people complain that there is no way to run some plugin syntax inside a module. Now we have it!

Two suggestions for improvement: 1. what is the use of first parameter "Plugin to execute" ? If it is not compulsory, just remove it. Because it will produce an EXTRA {something I entered} at frontend. 2. sometimes we need to limit the dimension of this module, for example, when playing a video file. So please add new parameters to control the size.

Thanks to the author!
bybaijianpeng, December 13, 2008
Featured Content Glider Module Joomla 1.5
The ONLY thing I love for this module is the Glide transition effect. Other designs are bad.

User must input the Text and Title manually at backend. There is no field for URL, maybe you can input HTML directly to the textarea but I have no interest to test more.

Why not let this module extract content items from spesified Sections/Categories/Article IDs ? Add more parameter to show/hide: Title/author/date/IntroText/Image/Section/Category/Read More/More in the same Sec.Cate ...

At present, This module is useless for me. Hope the author can improve it better.
bybaijianpeng, December 9, 2008
SOBI 2
This is the best directory component for Joomla. Today I tried to make a custom template for SOBI2 but can't find enough documentation on this issue. Hope the author will improve the Template Commands page on their website.

Thanks to the authors.
bybaijianpeng, December 6, 2008
Filtered News
This module is very good to replace the default Latest News module. The author had offered plenty of parameters so that we can have flexible frontend layout.

Now I have only one filter suggestion:

Please add two new parameters: Only show content from current Section/Category (Yes, No).

Thanks to the author.
bybaijianpeng, December 6, 2008
Simple Content Versioning
We know that drupal has versions management feature for articles, but Joomla does not. Now with this extension, Joomla will have the same power to give content items a version manager.

Thanks to the author!
bybaijianpeng, December 5, 2008
Staff Master
I tested this component today. It has a good idea. I think many websites want such a component to show their staff list.

But when I installed v0.7.5.2 on my Joomla! 1.5.8, the backend icons of this component can't show up. The reason is that my Joomla was installed in a subfolder to www root. And this component can't support Joomla in subdir.

Hope the author will fix this soon.

Thanks.
bybaijianpeng, November 16, 2008
MicroBlog
Just tested this with Joomla! 1.5.7, it can be installed and worked. But I can't understand the design of this software.

Is this a single-user blog tool? Then why you need an Author field to fill ? Do you think the Admin will forget his name? Why not just fetch the Admin name automatically?

Is this a multi-user blog? Then why I can't find a Write New Blog link at frontend?

What is the superiority of this software when compared with Joomla default content component? I think we can publish mini Blog articles with com_content too. If we need special blue frame around the article, we can do it by CSS. Why bother to install such a weird component?
bybaijianpeng, November 11, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Send CSV List
I tested this component today on Joomla! 1.5.7 on my local testing server. Installation has no problem. When I clicked its name on the component menu at backend, it showed me an error message: Sorry, only a Super Administrator can use this facility. It is funny since I AM the Super Admin user.

BTW, hope the author can add some more features like fields selection, with or without password, and multi-language support. Thanks.
Owner's reply

Hi baijianpeng,

I'm guessing your installation might be an upgrade or something other than a straight 1.5 version. The component simply looks at your registered globals to see what 'type' of user you are and if it's other than Super Administrator it says no.

You can change this by opening "admin.send-csv-list.php" which is in your "/administrator/components/com_send-csv-list/admin" directory and editing line 24...

$my->usertype != "Super Administrator"

..to whatever suits you.

Hope that helps, please post again if you have trouble.

Cheers, Alan

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