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They Club Member is not attractive because is only focused to get support and few plugin not always useful. I will be happy to subscribe to their Club for get NOW a J 1.7 version but is useless because generally even if Club Member get a release before Standard user, a new version is publicly released just 1 or 2 weeks after.
They roadmap is not very clear and we are in dark because we don't know when we can expect a release. Except to know they will support Joomla 1.5 at least until end of years, we don't have no more infos about Joomla 1.7. Their last blog post is old of 6 month.. It's a shame for a indispensable component like Joomfish.
I thinks this component should be 100% Commercial for be more less sure development follow in timely manner the development of Joomla.
Right now we are totally blocked and we can't launch new website because is not logic to start with Joomla 1.5 due to the fact this version is obsolete even if supported until March 2012. Of course we can start new sites using Joomla 1.5 but most developer have stopped development for J 1.5 and/or made separate component version for J 1.5 and J 1.7. So when the time to upgrade will come, it will just a mess for upgrading live big sites.
Hi,
This is a fair review and 100% acknowledged.
I just want to make one point clear. We will release a 1.7/2.5 compatible version of JoomFish and this will not be bound to the club membership. As usual all our work is done in the public space and the current development is already available on github. The release will be open as usual as our club is a support service and not a hidden way to commercialize the product.
- Alex
- Warn Admin a user have delete his account would be great.
- Ability for let users to optionally communicate why he choose to delete his account would be great too..
-Display this plugin in another place (typically somewhere where users can modify his data) instead publish as a Tab. A new Menu will be great...
I would be happy to pay for that additions.. Hope developer will update this plugin soon.. I give only 4 stars because that... I will not use this plugin like that because this 3 missing features appear to me essential...
I customized the default CSS for fit my template design without any problem. Personally I use this module for display all my Faq using the {load position} tag inside a single article...
Many thank for this great stuff!!
Have you tried the plugin....?
I just make a little mess with my Menu Assignment and I asked Stephen in his forum more infos. In less than 12 hours I get a detailed reply about my problem...
This module and the support is rock!! Thank again Stephen.
experience I know most people do that and the consequence is immediate. User will never receive the CB activation/confirmation message and will not be able to register to your site. The user will also think the site management/administration is messy and not serious and of course he will never try again to register = You loose a member even if is not really your fault.
Anyway one feature was missing and it was the ability to make also a email check if user decide to change/update his email from his profile. This essential process was not managed reason why I asked, Andrew the developer, if this feature was planned. In less of few days Andrew make this update and now Confirm Email is fully managed in both registration process and profile update. This plugin work without problem in last CB version 1.3.1.
Pay attention to place the plugin in the right position Tab (Contact Info) and to place the field just after the standard primary Email CB field otherwise the plugin will not work correctly.
Thank again Andrew :-)
Thank you very much for your review and your suggestions. I will think about it.
Greetings
Alfred Bösch
hi, thx for the review, suffix option is added as requested, cheers
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=18815
Conclusion...if your website require to have SEF enabled with Add Suffix enabled and if you want propose to your visitors to subscribe to your Feed using a syndication link don't use this plugin. Another point is probably also the fact the development of this plugin is no more active and absolutely no support is provided... Too bad because I will be happy to pay for a working plugin without this issue...
A must have..Thank Douglas !!
The only reason because I don't give maximum rating is because it use 2 captcha system I don't like:
Recaptcha is a third party stuff and require a registration and key for work..and is pretty big with ugly display. Probably is efficient captcha method but maybe too complex for users. The goal of captcha is to avoid spam and bots...not avoid users to submit a form..
BigoCaptcha are simple but can not be well customized and his development seem to be dead. This plugin was before published on the JED but now unpublished for unknown reason.. I don't like too much the "flag effect" of this captcha image. No button or link for reload and ask a new image (in case is not well readable) are present.
Anyway captcha are not developed by AlfContact so if captcha don't fit my need is not the fault of developer...but maybe Alfred can add another more friendly captcha ? :-)
Last point: Since version 1.9 a custom header/footer is available...so is now possible for who need (like me) to add in footer Google Maps using iframe. This is really a great value !
PRO:
- Easy to install and use
- Multi-languages
CONS:
- No SEF url
- Thumbnails not fit the configured size
- No working search module (management make/models ajaxified work sometime yes sometime no)
- No thumb/cars showcase featured or random category module
- And the worst point absolutely no support
With paid version maybe the support are more decent..but I don't need this version because it contain more options useless for me...In my case the free version are quite enough..
Thank you for your review.
First of all I wanted to say:
- SEF is coming, but I am also busy. So please hold the line for that.
- The dropdown menus are working properly, tested this on 4 servers. And all without problems.
- Thumbnails problem is fixed in the latest version? What versiopn did you install?
- There is no modle yet for featured vehicles. As you could see in the JED I've ticked the component box only.
- Support? I've never had any mails from you?
- When you upload a small image (like 480 pixels wight for example) you get a GD error because the size of popup image are hardcoded by default to 500 pixels so any image below this size will cause an error.
- Ability to customize easily the size of thumbnail and popup image and keep really that size. In fact pictures are scaled and not totally resized to default hardcoded size.
- Public location of all stored images. Actually all image are stored inside Administrator folder making impossible to protect this folder with htaccess (like is often suggested for increase security) because all image will not displayed.
- Ability to choose slideshow ON / OFF instead ON hardcoded by default
- Add pagination features
- I agree with review of craig2006 telling ability to change default name Lightgallery
I think this component can have great potential if developer keep it simple like it is. Maybe a simple random image module can be also proposed in future. Personally I will very happy to pay for this component if all this point are solved. I will follow the development and hope some improvement will be done in near future.
thnx for u r review.
I will try to add u r requirements and get back to u asap.
The only thing must be absolutely added for become the real best editor are probably:
-Ability to remove picture from Image Manager because actually when you upload a picture you can not delete them. The only manner are to use default Joomla Media Manager and this is very annoying.
-Ability to change/customize easily the size or thumbnail when a image are uploaded using Image Manager. Actually only 2 size are proposed by default (550x350 and 1000x1000).
-Ability to create popup image using Slimbox or Modal for example. The problem for implement a popup features are probably the fact this require to manage 3 images for generate a popup...That mean if a user upload an image (most probably a picture coming from a camera and so with a big format size like 2000x900 pixels for example) is necessary to set an intermediate image (the one that will be displayed in popup) and so to choose appropriate size and finally a thumbnail where user will click for display intermediate image. Ability also to choose to not keep the original big image can be nice...this for save disk space and avoid useless files.
Anyway this editor are the best one...should be included in Joomla core instead the poor Tiny editor.
Thank you for your kind words.







