Finally there is a good blog calendar for Joomla. The module is good and stylish, and I was very pleasantly surprised to find that it shows both a calendar view and a list of years and months! The module links to the component which provides clear pages listing articles by date. Some css styles are Joomla standard styles and others can be modified easily. The only two things that I think could be better are a couple of tag ids for non-standard css styling of the component output, and a support forum or email in English.

Until I installed it, it looked like Agora had everything one would want from a forum extension. But unlike me, the developers do not think the Joomla back-end is where an overwhelming number of options should be set, and where they can be organised in the most administrator-friendly way. So half way setting it all up this pointless want to be different made me un-installed Agora. Meanwhile I had also seen that Agora ruined the front-end layout and not just because it needs the width of the right column like all other forum extensions. Clearly I dislike Agora, but it would not be fair to give it a full thumbs down: it is afterall a native, future rich and good-looking forum extension.

All I needed to do in an article was to have alternative paragraphs for guest visitors and logged in registered users. That is exactly what this plugin enabled me to do, with easy to remember tags. It would be perfect if this was a native plugin.

I tried SC because I needed a caddy but a simple one. SC is exactly that. It is simple in functionality and simple in use. You create some products, and then you create an article with plugin codes referring to those products - and there is a module to show what is in the cart. There is no functionality to add charges or taxes, so I suggested that as a new feature. The layout is not great but good enough. Multi-lingual support is built in but few languages are packaged. I had no problems with bugs. All in all SC is exactly what the name says and what I needed.

Jonathan is very friendly and on the ball, and that shows in this extension. Attachments is one of the most user-friendly extensions I have seen and it provides a very simple but effective way to offering downloads.

I wanted to put some downloads on my site but did not want to put visitors through the motions of clicking through sections, categories and lists to end up wondering what the details really mean, as is the case on many Joomla sites with downloads. With attachments I can simply create an article, write something relevant about the download, and attach the download to the article. Convenient for me, and convenient for my visitors!

I would have rated this as excellent if there as a way to update an attached file, to select show or hide on section and category level, and to force downloaders to accept some terms first. I have hacked these features into my installation and I hope and expect that one of the next versions will merrit the full five stars.

Attachments might be too straightforward for commercial websites making money off downloads, but I warmly recommend it for other uses, including especially for other extension developers wanting to offer their extensions as downloads.