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byboogily, May 24, 2012
byboogily, May 16, 2012
Otherwise, it looks in a class of its own.
Owner's reply
Sorry, the 5 days of traveling for JandBeyond with strikes of air controls in Portigal screwed up our timings but we are catching all up already. Probably you already were answered.
byboogily, December 19, 2011
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Plus, it doesn't have much bloat or links back to the author. It just flat out works. yay
byboogily, December 19, 2011
Take a peek at the open-source forum (1700+ posts) about this product and j1.5. You will see it has given a few people headaches.
Personally, nothing worked right off the bat, but digging around for awhile got me to get it in working order. In my opinion, the whole extension is overthought and doesn't need to be that complicated. The developer responds well and it is good to see a lively extension such as this, but don't expect to extract and publish a couple of plugins and expect it to work.
Owner's reply
The short explanation of why yvComment is not "plug and play" from Your point of view is this:
yvComment is tightly coupled with Joomla core hence it depends on many setting of Joomla core, e.g. related to User permissions/access levels, Category for Comments etc. This is why you have to read documentation, understand Joomla AND set that necessary Joomla core settings to have yvComment work properly at your site.
BTW, I always have feelings similar to yours when I'm installing CB - one of the most popular Joomla extensions...
byboogily, December 6, 2011
Plus, the forum is very active. If you care about taking care of your duplicate content issues, you have to try this extension.
byboogily, December 6, 2011
It is a great premise, and it does work without sh404, (granted some hidden tricks you must know if using cPanel - and a release version found inline in a post, not on the download pages).
Part of the premise of Open Source is plug and play, but if it doesn't play nice, it turns open source to open sores.
Owner's reply
In our feature list is not declared, that VD will work with all other extensions. We have developed VD for our own needs. We do not ask for money. We share our code with others. We are happy if others are willing to develop further our work. This is the principle of free software (which means more than just open source).
byboogily, November 17, 2011
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
So, I tried to purchase the license. Their site wasn't even set up correctly. Then they got my support ticket and quickly updated their site so that they could take payments. Okay, fine.
After 4 days I got my license code. Still wondering about this templating issue. The support ticket said it escalated to developers. Okay, fine.
They seriously answered stating it is because my site uses fixed widths! lol. Funny because my layout is fluid, I coded it from scratch. The problem is the plugin labeled "Apptha Mobile - Redirect". If you enable it, it takes away the ability to assign a template to one page, the whole site uses default.
To top it off, I still can't remove the copyright. I'll wait another 2-3 days and get some answer about it then.
I hope my review warns others about the lack of quality support and the instability that comes with this extension.
byboogily, November 10, 2011
Also, it is super powerful. My site is really going to stand out because of this component.
An appropriate representation of the requested resource....
You can't delete sitemaps, the menu titles generated aren't from the menu manager, If you try to make a different sitemap default it spits out another white-screen error. No help on the forums. Disappointed. I hope to see a working version in 1.7 soon as the ones in 1.5 worked fine for me.
byboogily, August 9, 2011
byboogily, August 9, 2011
byboogily, August 9, 2011
byboogily, August 9, 2011
Plus, I've noticed some bugs in 2.4 in Joomla1.7.
I'd say go ahead and use it, only if you don't want to modify it too much
byboogily, August 3, 2011
I have used VM for many sites. A few years ago, they weren't all that bad to set up. In the latest versions, there has been many bugs. For example, you can't even display sub categories on your site unless you hack the code and replace a "!" that for some reason got taken out. Also, 1.1.9 says you are running 1.1.7 in the components manager, which also is odd. Also, if you want to use PayPal, on 1.1.9 (the latest release) you have to install 1.1.8 somewhere else and download some PayPal file and upload it to 1.1.9. Also, the quantity arrows don't fire in 1.1.9. Oh, and just try to go into the forums and legitimately ask for help. You will be either
a.) redirected to some post that is irrelevant
b.) Asked to provide more details of your setup which in some cases is irrelevant
c.) Get a snotty response that will belittle you
d.) Stump everyone and have your post sit there for 3 months
I don't write many reviews, but I'd honestly recommend looking at other options if I were you. Plus, you'd probably be stuck at J1.5 ( I don't dare try the new version, for obvious reasons)
a.) redirected to some post that is irrelevant
b.) Asked to provide more details of your setup which in some cases is irrelevant
c.) Get a snotty response that will belittle you
d.) Stump everyone and have your post sit there for 3 months
I don't write many reviews, but I'd honestly recommend looking at other options if I were you. Plus, you'd probably be stuck at J1.5 ( I don't dare try the new version, for obvious reasons)
byboogily, July 18, 2011
I noticed that the articles show in the form of it's own SEF URL, and the big no-no is that it doesn't even append the current page's Itemid, hence when clicking on an article it shows it on a page set to no menu id, making it very difficult to style on certain templates.
To try and solve this issue I went to the support forum. It was all Spanish, but I had a translating app, so no biggy. But I couldn't even make an account with Facebook, or log-in, and the page stalled out twice on me.
I recommend it, but as long as you are aware that the articles that show when clicked in the module will display in a way that you can not attach modules to it (no Itemid)
Owner's reply
The module uses the default method of Joomla to get the article URL:
JRoute::_(ContentHelperRoute::getArticleRoute(id, catid))
And Joomla gives the url (with SEF).
Maybe the problem is that you use a 3rd party component for make the SEF URLs.
You can look how it works in the demo page.