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I have to rave about this one, as it is so cool!

Super easy to install. Super easy to figure out. In less than 15 minutes I was up and running and translating my site.

I don't think I've ever used a high-feature component that was so easy to use.

Thanks guys!!

I've tried a couple ways to get Google Maps into my review articles, but they never seemed to work right. We create our own Google Maps, with pointers and what not on them, and I wanted to be able to easily show those in the content without having to turn off the article editor or doing other such things to try and make the code work. This plugin did the trick. In the plugin info it doesn't tell you who to insert a pre-made Google map, so, I will list that info here, as you just get the msID of the map you want to use and insert it into this code in the content, and voila...

I have been waiting and waiting for this come out again, as I had used it on my old site, and when I upgraded to 1.5 it wasn't available. Installed easily and quickly, worked right away with out any problems. I did not bother with the 1-line code change, and frankly don't see any issues or problems or differences at my site...so it works fine with no changes for me.

I had trouble installing it...and when I finally got it installed, I followed the info on the 'guide' tab in the component, and it wouldn't work...I had to mess about with some options and items, and finally got it to work with some PayPal buttons in a content item. But then, when testing it, it would only list the transactions that were done with a credit card at PayPal, not the PayPal account Payments...and then, it would not send the download link, and I couldn't get that code to work, so I could only send the document as a link on the email, but some of the files that people download from my site are too big to send by email, so that wouldn't work either. I tried contacting them twice, but I still have not gotten a reply or any help...so there is no way for me to try and get it working. So, in the end, I had to dump it from my site, and paid money for nothing. I wouldn't suggest getting it until they at least have some kind of support forum or better way to get support and help for it. It's just not intuitive for all in terms of getting it to work.

After ripping my hair out over the complexity and bugs in Virtue Mart (and never getting it to work properly with downloads), and then ripping my hair out over several other 'shopping cart' options I finally realized I didn't need all those bells and whistles and problems anyhow...I only need the user to be able to choose the audio tour and pay and download it...so I finally came across this component. It's clean and easy to install, easy to figure out. Worked like a charm right away. I did find that the plugin code will conflict with some other plugin codes in the content...so for my audio files to play I had to switch to a new audio player...and I had to move the plugin down to the last space on the plugin list...but after doing that it worked find in the content.

I noticed some winers making comments. They're expecting too much. For a completely free community building software/portal this stuff rocks. I'm not an expert with JOOMLA in the least and I had no trouble with getting it installed, and all the plugins I'm using so far have installed without a single hitch to speak of. I really recommend this for anyone wanting to have a basic community website.

It's cool...but you can only have one per page...who needs only 1 per page? It would be a fantastic module if that little item were fixed...as the one per page does work well...it's just not enough to only have one.

My site isn't too big, and doens't have tons of URLs, so, at least so far, it seems to be working really well. It's also the first one that has worked. I've tried several others that were on here and they just wouldn't work. This one works with my regular site, iJoomla magazine, and also with virtuemart. All seems good.

The only issue I had was that after I installed it my main domain wouldn't forward to iJoomla anymore when prior it had. I finally fixed that issue though, here is how (in case you have the same issue):


I had the JOOMLA front page on my main menu and my top menu. In both I had put the iJoomla as the first item. But, I don't even use the main menu. I only use the top menu on my site.

I had moved the iJoomla up to the number 1 postion on both those menus anyhow, and made it my homepage in the iJoomla configuration.

But, still, if I typed in www.homepageexample.com/home then iJoomla came up, and if I typed in www.homepageexample.com/ then the regular JOOMLA frontpage came up...I couldn't figure out why, and then I did...

I had unpublished the regular JOOMLA front-page from my top menu, as I use that menu on my webpage. And, then, on that menu only the iJoomla was published.

But...I hadn't done that on my main menu, as I don't even use the main menu on my website. I didn't know it would matter since I don't use that menu at all anywhere. I only use the top menu. So while the regular front page was unpublished on my top menu (which I use) it was still published to my main menu (which I don't use).

So, I just went in and saw that on the main menu the regular JOOMLA front-page was still published (though it was #3 down the list, and iJoomla was the first item on that list...but both were published on that list).

So, I unpublished it, and voila! No problem anymore.

I hadn't realized that would cause an issue, particularly considering I don't even use the main menu. I only use my top menu. I guess one just has to check all their menus, whether they're using them or not, and 'unpublish' the front-page option, and to move the iJoomla into the first postion...even if they're not using that menu...