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Sleek feed
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Dumb.
byjclamp, April 28, 2010
Sleek feed
This is a dumb module. Save your $10. They said it supports all feeds, it doesn't. I tried plugging in an iTunes feed and nada. No documentation at all.
Owner's reply

we mentioned on our documentation have a look (http://webkul.com/joomla-tutorial/how-to-use-sleek-feed-module) . If you have any problem please visit support forum .

Webmap+
★★★★★
INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!
byjclamp, October 13, 2009
Webmap+
This component is freaking incredible. Such a great deal. It's was EXACTLY what I wanted. Allows for CSV upload of points, categories, extra attributes, customizable markers... WOW!!!! THANK YOU!
Podcast Suite
★
What is up with this component??
byjclamp, April 8, 2009
Podcast Suite
Actually managing a podcast with this thing is really weird. You'd think you can just created the podcast and start uploading mp3s... not so! You have to use an ftp to load them. Then this thing scans that folder... At that point you have no podcast. What you do then is click the file from that folder. Then you add metadata. Still not added to the podcast... Finally, you have to create an entirely seperate article page for that issue of the podcast. So you'll be creating a billion pages. It puts a tag on that page and the podcast works by searching ALL the pages for tags and assembling them. And it's not a front end component (just a module). AND if you try save some space and put all your podcast tags on one page, it crashes the flash player AND will not generate the XML for the podcast... How bad is that? I think someone figured out the worst way this could be done and did it. How about just a plugin that you can load mp3s into and it manages your feed???
Owner's reply

Hi jclamp,

Sorry to hear you didn't like the Suite. However, there were some design decisions I had to make that require you to FTP the files up. Most webhosts have their file upload limits set very low; some as low as 2 MB. This is obviously not enough to upload a 20-30 minute (or longer) podcast episode. Rather than have someone wait 5-10 minutes for their file to upload and fail, I decided to recommend using FTP instead.

I assume that most people want to have a chance to edit the metadata before publishing a podcast episode. Regardless, since you have to upload the episode through FTP first anyway, there's no way I can automatically tell Joomla! to publish an episode on upload.

As far as the article creation goes, I personally wish it wasn't a separate screen. However, I wanted to make sure that people would be able to edit the article where their podcast episode appears using the full Joomla! content backend. It didn't make sense for me to reinvent the wheel and create the article editing screen in my component.

Also, I chose to go with the core Joomla! articles as people then have the flexibility of using any of their existing content plugins on episodes. For instance, some people use commenting plugins. With this setup, you can create an episode and people can add their comments directly to the article. And yes, you can only add one episode per article as iTunes only recognizes one tag per item in your RSS feed. Just trying to save some pain here.

If you want all of your podcasts on one page, create a link pointing to the section where your podcasts appear.

Sorry to hear about the Flash player crashing. I really don't use it, didn't write it, and only provide it as an option for people who want it. The primary purpose of the podcast suite is to generate the RSS feed for iTunes. If you know of a freely available Flash player that doesn't crash when you have "a billion" of them on the page, please point me towards it.

One point you're incorrect on is about the module. The Podcast Suite does have a frontend for the component; the module points to it. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a feed that iTunes could see.

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