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Slideshow for Phoca Gallery
★★★★★
Rock solid, documented well, a relief
byblouwagie, May 31, 2009
Slideshow for Phoca Gallery
I have literally spent days going through every of the flash and of the non flash gallery plugins. And I have kept going back to Phoca.

Phoca is maybe not the most sexy looking, or the examples are not that trendy, but when it comes down to actually working and being able to figure out, there seems to be only one name in town that brings the gallery, multiple item upload, slideshow, etc, etc together.

The gallery plugins in Joomla show the great and ugly of open source, there is lots of choice and it is very very hard to differentiate the ugly from the diamond in the rough. I wished there was a space to compare them all one by one, but there is not really. Since I spent days, maybe over a week trying them all out, I can confirm Phoca is a diamond in the rough.
Exposé bridge
★★★
Not native 1.5
byblouwagie, May 31, 2009
Exposé bridge
The main issue with this extension is:
It is listed as native Joomla 1.5, but when you try to install it, it does not work without activating the Legacy 1.0 plugin
Pages-and-Items
★★★★★
Absolutely changes Joomla for the better
byblouwagie, May 25, 2009
Pages-and-Items
No doubt, Joomla is an fantastic product. Yet there is a constant mind contortion going on because you have to think about menus when you want to generate any content (a page), or of menus do not generate content it may be a plugin that generates content, and that plugin has to be on the page in question for it to work.

This pages and items completely takes that mind bending out of the Joomla experience, and it is a real relief. Not that I could not reach the same results before, but the steps are only 10% and you see all the elements that create a page together, so it is just quick and easy to get the page you want.
Attachments for Joomla!
★★★★★
Great, fast to get going
byblouwagie, May 16, 2009
Attachments for Joomla!
I had to try several plugins before I got lucky. This plugin should indeed be part of the core code. I works well and is simple enough to get going. The look is clean.

If you first use it, have a look at the settings, since attachment by initial default only show to logged in users, which may confuse you at first.

Great tool that is well focused on what it wants to do !
Thank you.
GoogleMap
★★★★★
The easiest to get going and supports multiple locations
byblouwagie, May 9, 2009
GoogleMap
I tried several Joomla mapping extensions for Google maps and this one is by far the easiest to get going. Download the module and install it and the rest is very intuitive.

What is great is that you can define several marker points and that it does not require you to learn any complex syntax.

I just would like to see some more configuration possibilities. There is no clear way to change the wording for getting directions and I did not see a way to work with Google KLM files. Yet with these shortcomings I come back to this one after having tried some others.

Also note: This is 1.5 native, many other map plugins seem not to be 1.5 native.
Owner's reply

Around the 1st of June there will be a big update on the component.

This new version will have more configuration possibilities and 2 more views, plus more.

Phoca Gallery
★★★★★
Simple powerful stable
byblouwagie, April 30, 2009
Phoca Gallery
Phoca is a real quality solution if you want a gallery. The product works well and there are a lot of extension and options that work together in a very consistent way in my experience. It take care of all the basics like bulk updates, grouping, categorising and gives many options to link galleries together.
I had worked with Gavick first, which is ultimately promising a more flashy presention, but Phoca works and the site and author are really friendly in a real open source spirit like Joomly itself it. Highly recommended.
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