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byjohnlewisdesign, February 14, 2013
byjohnlewisdesign, June 25, 2012
>1 year later and we switched the site to forced SSL. I hit a small problem with reCaptcha (no doubt down to Google buying them out and moving the goalposts), but once again the Joomduck admins were on the case in the forum with a very clear and concise solution - within 24hrs!
I thought I was going to be on my own seeking support for something I bought over a year ago. Not the case I'm astounded to say, hence my writing this. Top notch product, works brilliantly, and simply outstanding support. Better than I could have wished for.
Thanks guys! 11/10
byjohnlewisdesign, June 7, 2012
I'd been having a problem where a component [which as I love it remains nameless] was loading jQuery from Google's CDN over http, breaking the SSL site I was using it for. NOTE TO DEVS: GIVE US THE OPTION TO CONTROL YOUR JQUERY IMPLEMENTATIONS! Basic stuff, no?
jQuery Easy to the rescue! The second I loaded it to my site, it fixed a Mootools conflict by loading it the correct way round, and BANG, my site was loading fully over SSL again. And no need to touch the admin area's settings too.
Oh and it even honoured the force SSL setting I'd added to Global Config by ALREADY CHECKING HTTPS!
Wow. Simplify Your Web indeed. Great, great work guys. I salute you.
(PS Compared to installation and setup of jQuery Easy, this review took about 100x longer!)
Owner's reply
Thank you for this very constructive review. The plugin is in constant evolution and more options are on the way for advanced users as requests pour in.
Could you contact me through the website and clarify your request about controlling the jQuery implementations? (do you mean you want to be able to get jQuery from other channels than Google's CDN?)
byjohnlewisdesign, February 1, 2012
Thanks alexred, brilliant work that should be 100% 5 stars IMHO!
byjohnlewisdesign, January 31, 2012
Great work from Pete and the FreakedOut team as per usual. Top notch!
byjohnlewisdesign, November 24, 2011
Not a single component I tried allowed comments to appear expanded on the front page by default - including this one.
I posted this on the Flexi forum and within a few hours the dev came back to me with a detailed and VERY SIMPLE hack to achieve my goal. I tried it, and hey presto, perfect!
I cannot believe how clearly this is coded, and how attentive the developer is to his customers. Wow!
If I could give 6 stars, I would. Highly recommended. And thank you so much to the dev, who continues to excel himself every time! Simply brilliant.
byjohnlewisdesign, November 24, 2011
However, every site I install it on gets targeted by spammers within days. They don't reach the front end of the site as its set to require approval - but I've been suffering at least one spam an hour from every site its installed on, despite having ReCaptcha up and running.
This is seriously frustrating. I've had 2 complaints from clients, who, like me, don't have time to battle this imminent spam torrent. Simply put myself and clients have extra work to do now moderating spam every few hours. This is simply not acceptable.
If the spam issue was addressed (!out of the box!) I would give it 5 stars. As it curently stands, I'm not exactly queuing up to use it on my next site...
1 in 7 posts on Phoca's Guestbook forum are about spam. 665 posts. Of my last 7 emails received to my main inbox, 4 are spam from Phoca guestbook - from just ONE site.
Phoca should really nail this problem. Its hurting their otherwise perfect software.
Owner's reply
Hi, every new version of Phoca Guestbook gets some new feature of specific spam protection. I am using different products (forums, comments, etc. by external application) and everyday I fight spam - all website inputs made by different application get spammed, see:
http://www.phoca.cz/documents/3-phoca-guestbook-component/436-trying-to-prevent-from-spam
I am using phpBB and it is great software, I have installed over 8 different spam protection methods there and get about 10 spams per days there and over hundreds attempts to spam it. phpBB is great software and I will never review it bad because of some stupid spammers (who of course are allways ready to cross every spam protection - as mostly spam is done by human spammers)
So yes, every new version gets new spam protection methods but ... just read the article mentioned above :-(
Jan
byjohnlewisdesign, March 24, 2011
First I thought it wasn't sending mail but I was wrong! It was working perfectly - my client checked the wrong mailbox! It picks up Joomla's setting and even works with SMTP.
I contacted Christopher to assist on this, and he was back to me in a few hours to check it was all ok, which of course it was. His communication is excellent, as is his coding, I cannot fault him. I will be checking his other paid products in future, I recommend you do too!
Highly recommended if you want to save yourself a headache. Thanks Christopher!
byjohnlewisdesign, October 4, 2010
Blastchat is a great component/module/plugin pack, once you're set up its very easy to work out and runs itself. I had a small 'bug', which I went to the forum to fix, the admin/developer saw my post within 20 mins, asked me for a URL, and come joined me on my site!
He diagnosed my version was out of date in seconds, and hung around whilst I updated it. This fixed the problem instantly, and my users DIDN'T EVEN LOSE THE CONNECTION whilst it updated!! Just a refresh, away we go.
I cannot thank him enough, and cannot recommend it enough.
One thing I'd LOVE to see - an IRC connector so we could self host! That would ROCK. Oh and an iPhone skin!
Give it a try, you won't regret it.
