This is a simple, straightforward way to set up frontend content creation/editing/deletion/publishing screens with custom access rules.

This is the best plugin of its kind that I've seen, and it's good to see it improving, but it still has some basic design failings: 1) the PNGs need transparent backgrounds, and 2) the calendar layout should not use tables or at least it should use them better.

As is, version 1.3 will break good, properly designed tableless templates, and it will probably not function well with any temoplate using overrides to replace the core/default com_content page output.

To make a quick fix you will need to remove the table width attributes hard-coded into the plugin's HTML output and remove the table/tr/td tags it inserts (and never closes) at its end.

This extension combo allows even users in the access group "authors" to self-publish and/or edit their drafts, neither of which is possible otherwise.

This is a really super plugin and works perfectly for me, but there is one problem due to the way Joomla identifies content pages.

If you have a menu link for the com_content "submit article" function and you use this link to create an article on the frontend, the URL generated for Twitter to link back to the article will point to the article creation/editing screen or rather a "you do not have acceess" page since you likely have this menu item (or the whole menu) set to allow registered or special users only.

This is with Joomla 1.5.9 and core SEF turned on via .htaccess but no suffixes added to the URLs.

Very good, very useful. However I noticed that with the plugin active, if the module manager filter is set for one module position, after saving settings for a module the filter is cleared and does not remain in place, as is normally the case in Joomla.

Almost there! This is a very good and useful extension, but you need to be absolutely precise in the addresses you supply both for contacts on the backend and lookups for directions on the frontend. If you have an extra space at the end or incomplete information for an address line, you will get inconsistent and incomplete markers on the map.

Very nice, but it will load your site with hundreds of lines of bad xhtml and php errors if reporting is on. Le Condor has supplied a complete fix with a few improvements:

http://joomlabear.com/Forum/Module-Bugs/1847-ReJoomulus-1.0.6-errors-on-J-1.5.8-1.0.7.3.html#1847

http://www.sqysoft.com/remository?func=startdown&id=1

This is a replacement for the core contact manager. Since the core contact manager cannot be uninstalled, you are forced to have two components serving the same purpose if you install AContact.

Since AContact uses the same database tables as the core contact manager (plus a few of its own), any changes made to contact information in either component will affect the other except when it comes to contact categories. AContact categories do not carry over to the core contact categories and vice versa. This causes problems and appears to be a bug or oversight.

There is also a problem with component title redundancy so you get "A - A" as the title if the menu item for an AContent page is "A".

AContact's plugins supply its main value: allowing you to link a contact item to a video from a variety of sources and/or a google map. These can only be displayed in popup windows from a link. You can also add visual and/or audio confirmation codes on contact forms.

simplifies the process of doing this with .htaccess, which has other problems as well...

WARNING: If you create a custom redirect (like mistabasta) to a "scary" warning page to people who try to access /administrator, all you are doing is telling them you are indeed using Joomla, if they don't already know, and they may guess you are also using jSecure. Don't feed crackers with information.

***You are always MORE secure when crackers know LESS about your system.***

Faults:

1) It can't see archived articles
2) It opens static content items as regular article items--saving will change their status

Module link and email to author's address/website is wrong or defunct (uses joomlajumpstart.org--.com is active) and author's website has NO forum, NO comments, NO contact form.

Contrary to the author's numerous press releases that this and another minor module is the holy grail of Joomla extensions, it is vastly inferior to the free iJoomla metatag generator component, which is actually supported and updated periodically by the developer/s.

Letterman has many very good qualities, and it is the only newsletter component that actually works for me on Mambo 4.5.4. But if I could get MAMML, or ANJEL, or YANC to work (and not break in short order), I would drop Letterman quickly because it has no CB integration.

The so-called CB "integration" for Letterman should be DROPPED and not promoted anywhere, for anyone, at all. Using it is guaranteed to make you a spammer.

The Letterman CB "integration" scheme does not integrate its subscriber list with the core/CB list. You can only create a subscription checkbox in CB (which may be included on the profile pages and at registration), but there is [b]no way to mass-manage or mass-import subscriptions[/b] for people who subscribe this way, and [b]you will receive no notice when they subscribe/unsubscribe[/b]. They cannot unsubscribe without entering their profile page, and [b]Letterman will send these people bogus unsubscription info and links (which assume Letterman's subscriber manager is being used) unless this is removed from the mail footer template, which is not a simple config option.[/b] [i]If you let people subscribe via their profiles, you cannot use Letterman's own subscriber manager because this would create an entirely different list of subscribers that would confuse the people who subscribe with the checkbox.[/i] They might try to get on both lists.

In essence this "integration" makes Letterman's own user manager unuseable unless you don't care about spamming and pissing users off on several fronts.

>:( >:( >:(

Only with extreme caution and MUCH work could you administrate this CB "integration" well. It is also a system that makes it impossible to export your subscriber list short of going into the database itself.

Another serious flaw in Letterman itself is that it uses your base admin email settings with no options for a special newsletter address, a special reply-to or bounce address. That shows disregard for proper emailing procedures and makes it harder to divide labor to different accounts and admins.