I use this extension for a Public Health District website and it works great!! I'm constantly adding the latest health news to our site and I've configured the extension to automatically compile all the newly added content into one nice, neat newsletter and mail it out weekly! I can easily customize the appearance of the newsletter from the Joomla backend and even include modules from my site. So by using the modules not only do I include the latest added content since the last time the newsletter was compiled but I also include the headlines of previous news articles and the latest Job Listings from JobGrok as well. It works flawlessly and my list of subscribers is always actively growing especially since Vemod gives you the ability to offer guest subscriptions!

sh404sef is always one of the first extensions I install on a joomla site. Although, I was sad to see it go commercial, I definitely understand because a lot of time goes into making sh404sef I'm sure. It's definitely worth the small amount they're charging. And in response to an earlier comment, I'm using this extension on an IIS server and it works great! If you use Helicon's Isapi_Rewrite (free or commercial version) you can even use the .htaccess without index.php. When using isapi_rewrite you must add


if ( isset( $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL' ] ) )
{
$_SERVER[ 'REQUEST_URI' ] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL' ];
}

to the beginning of your index.php file for it to work. This detail had me tripped up for a while. I would have given an excellent rating but sometimes I do have strange things happen, for instance, out of the blue on occasion my homepage will return a 404 error. Purging the 404 logs always fixes it and it may be something I have setup wrong???

I use this component on a couple of church sites. It's always one of the most visited pages. There are a few bugs that I've managed to work around, and my several entries in the support forum have went unanswered as have most others I've noticed.

Feature request: ability for prayer chain subscribers to reply to requester with words of encouragement, either through contact form or reply-to address. I've tried to use the setting to have the reply-to address be that of the requester when the request is sent to the prayer chain but it didn't work.

This plugin works exactly like it's suppose to. I use this on all my sites now. I tried a couple of the module based ones but I prefer the plugin approach! Works great!

In defense of the author of this extension the flash player 10 issue is because of the wimpy application and not this Joomla module. I experienced the same issue when I upgraded my pc to flash player 10. Upgrading to the latest version of the wimpy player fixes this problem. This is clearly stated on Wimpy's support page. If you've purchased wimpy recently I think the upgrade is free.